Power Plant Operations & Maintenance Manager (Onsite)

SpaceXSI; Southaven, Memphis (MS, TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceXSI is seeking a Manager of Operation & Maintenance to lead the on-site power plant team in the Memphis/Southaven area. You will oversee supervisors, leads, and technicians across plant, process, and electrical disciplines, establishing maintenance standards and ensuring continuous, safe generation.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, OEMs, and contractors, manage the maintenance program, and drive reliability and uptime for mission-critical AI compute facilities.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency.
• 6+ years of experience in power plant or other high-reliability industrial operations and maintenance.
• 2+ years directly managing supervisors, leads, or a multi-discipline technician organization.

Responsibilities

• Own operation and maintenance of the power plant, including gas turbines and generators, balance-of-plant, fuel gas and process/fluid systems, water, compressed/instrument air, plant HVAC and cooling, and electrical systems through, including protection, e-houses, blackstart, and switching.
• Lead supervisors, leads, and technicians across plant, process, and electrical crafts as one O&M organization.
• Set daily and weekly priorities so planned maintenance, emergent work, alarms, trips, and outages are balanced without losing generation.
• Own the maintenance program: work planning, scheduling, procedures, CMMS discipline, spare parts readiness, and as-found/as-left documentation.
• Direct start-up, shutdown, switching, isolation, LOTO, and restoration so mechanical, process, and electrical work is coordinated and safe.
• Enforce SpaceXSI safety standards, including LOTO, NFPA 70E / arc-flash, confined space, and hot work. Stop work when conditions are unsafe and hold the organization to that standard.
• Lead outage planning and execution with engineering, OEMs, and contractors, and support commissioning and turnover of new generation and BOP systems into operations.
• Own O&M vendor and contractor performance, cost, and schedule. Work with buyers and accounts payable so accounts and contracts stay in order.
• Drive reliability: bad-actor elimination, root-cause investigations, and standards that raise uptime as capacity grows.
• Coach and develop supervisors and leads. Set expectations, manage performance, and scale the team with the plant.
• Communicate plant status, risks, team performance, and resource needs to site leadership.

Skills

Power plant ops

Maintenance management

Gas turbine gen

CMMS planning

O&M budgeting

Safety standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

CMMS systems

Job description

SpaceXSI is seeking a Manager of Operation & Maintenance to lead the on-site power plant team in the Memphis/Southaven area. You will oversee supervisors, leads, and technicians across plant, process, and electrical disciplines, establishing maintenance standards and ensuring continuous, safe generation.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, OEMs, and contractors, manage the maintenance program, and drive reliability and uptime for mission-critical AI compute facilities.