Plant Manager - Andrews County, TX

Orsted (Germany); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Orsted is seeking an Operations Manager to lead day-to-day operations at the Permian Solar and BESS facility in Texas. You’ll drive safety, reliability, and a world-class QHSE culture with the site team and external partners.

You’ll oversee planning, budgeting, performance, and engagement with landowners, agencies, and authorities to ensure safe, continuous power production. Travel to sites and trainings is required.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience in operations or maintenance in power generation, transmissions, distribution, or a related field.
• Supervisory experience of at least one year is required.
• Ability to work on-call, overnight, and in adverse weather conditions.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations of Permian Solar and BESS facilities, ensuring safety, reliability, and compliance.
• Coordinate with O&M service provider, regulators, landowners, and agencies to support safe operations.
• Drive world-class QHSE culture and optimize asset availability and power production.

Skills

Operations management

QHSE leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Safety culture

Education

Journeyman electrician license

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll manage the day-to-day operations at our Permian Solar and BESS facility. You’ll engage with our O&M Service Provider, local stakeholders, landowners, and local authorities to support the successful operation of these two projects. Most importantly, you’ll take lead on driving world-class QHSE culture and performance at the project sites.

Welcome to Generation Onshore

You’ll be part of Central Region Operations where you, together with your colleagues, will provide safe and reliable operations at Permian Solar and BESS. As a team, we play a pivotal role in a high-performing and fast-moving department, while encouraging personal and professional growth.

You’ll play an important role in:

• managing day-to-day operations of the wind farm, incl. QHSE, site performance, compliance, planning, budgeting, and engagement with local landowners, agencies, and authorities
• collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the sites are providing safe and reliable operations
• delivering high asset availability and power production through world-class technical performance.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have at least five years of experience in operations or maintenance in power generation, transmissions, distribution, or a related field, with a journeyman or master electrician license or time in the armed services substituting for years of experience
• have been in a supervisory role for more than a year
• are able to work on-call, overnight, and in adverse weather conditions
• are physically able to satisfy safety requirements of climb equipment and systems and climb wind turbines of varying heights.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll Need to necessary trainings, including but not limited to, General Industry Safety and Substation Safety.