Power Plant Reliability & Maintenance Lead

SpaceX; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Power Plant Maintenance Manager to own maintenance, reliability, and long-term asset performance for Starbase power generation infrastructure supporting the Starbase supercomputer.

This hands-on leader will build and guide a maintenance organization, develop preventive/predictive strategies, and coordinate outages while working with technicians, engineers, and OEMs to maximize equipment reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in power plant maintenance, rotating equipment reliability, or maintenance engineering at a power generation facility.
• Experience planning and executing maintenance on gas turbines, generators, or associated industrial plant equipment.
• Experience leading maintenance personnel, contractors, or multidisciplinary technical work.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the power plant maintenance organization, including mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and controls maintenance personnel.
• Own preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs for gas turbines, generators, pumps, motors, compressors, valves, cooling systems, and associated balance-of-plant equipment.
• Develop and execute maintenance plans and inspection schedules based on OEM recommendations, equipment condition, operating history, and reliability requirements.
• Plan and manage major turbine maintenance activities, including combustion inspections, hot gas path inspections, overhauls, and associated plant outages.
• Direct root cause investigations for recurring equipment failures, turbine trips, vibration issues, lubrication failures, and other mechanical or electrical problems.
• Implement condition-monitoring and predictive maintenance tools including vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, and equipment performance trending.
• Establish and maintain a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), including equipment histories, preventive maintenance schedules, work orders, and maintenance backlog tracking.
• Develop spare parts strategies, critical inventory requirements, maintenance budgets, and vendor support agreements.
• Work directly with turbine OEMs, equipment suppliers, and contractors to resolve technical issues, coordinate repairs, and maintain equipment reliability.
• Coordinate maintenance work with plant operations to minimize downtime, ensure safe equipment isolation, and support timely return to service.
• Support installation, commissioning, maintenance readiness, and turnover of new power generation assets.
• Establish maintenance performance metrics, including planned maintenance compliance, equipment availability, repeat failure rates, and mean time to repair.
• Ensure maintenance execution complies with applicable safety requirements, including lockout/tagout, electrical safety, hot work, confined-space entry, and equipment isolation procedure.

Skills

Leadership

Maintenance planning

Root cause analysis

Condition monitoring

Vibration analysis

Safety compliance

OEM coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Tools

CMMS platforms

Vibration analysis equipment

Thermography tools

Oil analysis equipment

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Power Plant Maintenance Manager to own maintenance, reliability, and long-term asset performance for Starbase power generation infrastructure supporting the Starbase supercomputer.

This hands-on leader will build and guide a maintenance organization, develop preventive/predictive strategies, and coordinate outages while working with technicians, engineers, and OEMs to maximize equipment reliability.