Plant Manager - Andrews County, TX

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

Job summary

Orsted Asia Pacific seeks a seasoned operations lead for Permian Solar and BESS to manage day-to-day operations, drive a world-class QHSE culture, and coordinate with local stakeholders to ensure safe, reliable power delivery.

You will supervise staff, work shifts including on-call, overnight, and adverse weather, and ensure asset availability while coordinating with regulators and landowners.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in operations or maintenance in power generation, transmissions, distribution, or a related field.
• Minimum one year in a supervisory role.
• Willing to work on-call, overnight, and in adverse weather conditions.
• Physically able to climb equipment and wind turbines of varying heights.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations including QHSE, site performance, compliance, planning, and budgeting.
• Engage with local landowners, agencies, and authorities to support operations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure safe, reliable operations.
• Deliver high asset availability and power production through world-class technical performance.

Skills

Operations experience

Supervisory experience

On-call readiness

Electrical license or military service

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.