Sr. Manager, Energy Operations Group Lead

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LA28 is seeking a Senior Manager, Energy Operations Team Lead to drive the Energy Operations Team across multiple domains including temporary power, LOTO, and energy telemetry for the Los Angeles 2028 Games.

You will report to the Director, Head of Energy Operation, coordinating with internal stakeholders, utility providers, and government agencies to ensure resilient, safe, and sustainable energy delivery for the event.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience managing electrical infrastructure installations.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or construction management.
• Experience with electrical design documents and utility coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead coordination between internal stakeholders and external partners to implement the Energy overlay masterplan.
• Develop data-driven review processes for Energy designs and standards.
• Partner with local trade schools and unions to develop training syllabi for temporary power operations.
• Act as primary venue liaison for facility owners, negotiating equipment footprints and temporary utility placement.
• Map operational boundaries between LA28, utilities, and contractors.
• Design and oversee load-bank testing protocols and commissioning for hybrid power grids.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Electrical engineering know-how

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Construction Management

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

BIM360

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Energy Operations Team Lead will support the Energy Operations Team as a Subject Matter Expert in one of six areas: Facility Owner Coordination, Development of Testing Plan, Equipment Procurement and Delivery Tracking, Lock-Out Tag-Out Procedures, Labour Contracts Accreditation, and Remote Monitoring Creation and Implementation, reporting to the Director, Head of Energy Operation. The role sits in the Energy functional area within the Venue Infrastructure Team, part of the Sport & Games Delivery Group, which is responsible for delivering competition and non-competition venues fit-for-purpose for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Energy Team ensures end-to-end delivery of power to all Games venues and facilities, coordinating with LA28 functional areas, external utility providers, government organisations, venue owners, and temporary power providers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead coordination between internal stakeholders, external delivery partners, temporary power providers, and electrical design engineers to ensure seamless execution of the Energy overlay masterplan.
• Develop and enforce a data-driven review and approval process for technical requirements of Games Energy designs; evaluate venue design revisions and mitigate impacts on temporary and legacy electrical infrastructure; define minimum technical standards for TPP-supplied equipment.
• Partner with local trade schools and labour unions to develop training syllabi for temporary portable power operations and establish a local talent pipeline.
• Act as primary venue liaison for facility owners, negotiating equipment footprints, cable routing, and temporary utility placement while preserving venue aesthetics, accessibility, and pedestrian flow
• Map operational boundaries between LA28, utility providers, and TPPs
• Integrate temporary power build-out timelines with facility calendars and manage decommissioning and make-good restoration.
• Design and oversee load-bank testing protocols for generators and battery energy storage systems, formulate failure-scenario testing matrices including ATS failover and dead-start recovery, author commissioning protocols for hybrid power grids
• And coordinate non-disruptive high-voltage hot-plug testing with OBS, technology teams, and sport federations.
• Lead competitive bidding and negotiation of contracts with global temporary power suppliers
• Enforce SLAs and sustainability, emissions, and acoustic standards
• Coordinate international freight, customs, and temporary import documentation
• Oversee digital asset tracking and central staging yard quality control and warranty execution.
• Draft LOTO procedures for dual-feed temporary grids; design Group LOTO frameworks and permit-to-work systems; establish unannounced field safety audits and stop-work authority; develop multilingual LOTO training modules and integrate electrical safety with security and emergency medical response.
• Architect and deploy IoT telemetry for portable energy assets; direct software teams to build a real-time Energy Operations Centre dashboard; configure automated alerting protocols; use telemetry data to optimise refuelling logistics and produce post-Games sustainability reports.
• Manage labour agreements, union relations, prevailing wage compliance, security credentialing, international onboarding and visa coordination, and shift and fatigue management for 24/7 temporary power coverage.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience managing the installation of electrical infrastructure.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or construction management, and 7 years of experience assessing, designing, or implementing electrical infrastructure.
• Understanding and experience with electrical engineering design documents.
• Experience working with electric utilities and/or temporary power providers.
• Experience implementing energy solutions into electrical design.
• Demonstrated commitment to co-creation and collaborative decision-making.
• Experience working with a diverse range of stakeholders and proven success at building excellent working relationships.
• Experience as an electrical and/or general building construction manager for medium voltage and low voltage temporary installations from the building, construction, and events industry.
• Critical infrastructure experience with leadership skills, including people management, holding people accountable for results, training subordinates across multiple projects, providing timely feedback, and standardising requirements, processes, protocols, and expectations.
• Meticulous with excellent organisational skills.
• Fluent working with Office suite products including Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD, Revit and BIM360.
• Ability to present information concisely to a wide audience of executive leadership, external contractors and advisors, and governmental agencies.
• Well-developed critical thinking skills and the ability to work independently to resolve issues.
• Effective communication, team building, and people skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the construction or sport / live event industry (preferred).

Workplace

Full-time position based at the LA28 office in Los Angeles, California.

Most meetings will be held in Microsoft Teams; some travel to external stakeholder offices, government agencies, and Games venues and facilities may be required.

Most work will be conducted in an office setting, requiring extended periods using computers, phones, and other office equipment; the LA28 office is an open-plan working environment where employees must work efficiently in an open cubicle environment.

LA28 does not provide relocation assistance.

Salary

All LA28 compensation remains subject to final determination based on individual candidate qualifications, experience, performance, and/or other reasonable criteria consistent with LA28's operational business needs and applicable law.

About the Company

LA28 is the independent, non-profit, privately funded organizing committee for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 2028 Games mark the return of the Summer Games to the U.S. for the first time in 32 years and Los Angeles' third time hosting an Olympic Games and first time welcoming the Paralympic Games. LA28 is guided by the values of optimism, integrity, excellence, inclusion, co-creation, and boldness.