Vice President of Energy

Metric DCX; United States; On-site; USD 280,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Metric DCX, a Texas-based energy infrastructure company, seeks a senior leader to run the operating and markets side of its growing fleet. You will set market strategy, dispatch and operate assets, manage regulatory affairs, and guide multi-site deployments from commissioning through steady-state operation.

Based in Texas with regular travel, you will lead distributed teams and own the P&L for your area. The role offers a path to scale the fleet, integrate thermal, storage, and balance-of-plant

Qualifications

• 12+ years in power generation or energy markets with senior operating or P&L responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Set energy market strategy and commercial planning across regulated and unregulated markets.
• Build and run market operations: generation dispatch, a 24-hour operations desk, and the systems behind them.
• Own regulatory affairs and compliance for commercial and industrial power generation.
• Direct deployment of thermal generation, battery storage and balance-of-plant assets, from program planning through commissioning to handover.
• Lead asset operations: availability, performance, maintenance strategy and field service as the fleet grows.
• Work with commercial and engineering teams so customer commitments translate into operable designs.
• Own the controls, telemetry and dispatch technology roadmap with engineering and IT.
• Manage the P&L for your area and build the team across markets, operations and project delivery.

Skills

Power generation

P&L management

Market operations

Leadership

Multi-site deployment

Travel readiness

Education

Engineering or Physics degree

Tools

Regulatory affairs

ERCOT knowledge

Job description

Our client is a Texas-based energy infrastructure company building a large on-site power business for data center and industrial customers. The business is backed by an established core operation and is moving from first projects to a multi-site generation fleet. They are hiring a senior leader to run the operating and markets side of that fleet.

The role

This is a senior leadership seat. You set market strategy, own how generation and storage assets are dispatched, operated and kept compliant, and direct new capacity from commissioning into steady-state operation.

What you'll do

• Set energy market strategy and commercial planning across regulated and unregulated markets
• Build and run market operations: generation dispatch, a 24-hour operations desk, and the systems behind them
• Own regulatory affairs and compliance for commercial and industrial power generation
• Direct deployment of thermal generation, battery storage and balance-of-plant assets, from program planning through commissioning to handover
• Lead asset operations: availability, performance, maintenance strategy and field service as the fleet grows
• Work with commercial and engineering teams so customer commitments translate into operable designs
• Own the controls, telemetry and dispatch technology roadmap with engineering and IT
• Manage the P&L for your area and build the team across markets, operations and project delivery

What you bring

• 12+ years in power generation, distributed energy or energy markets, with senior operating or P&L responsibility
• Hands-on experience running generation or distributed assets for industrial or data center customers, including dispatch, a market operations center or 24-hour desk, and regulatory affairs
• Working knowledge of ERCOT and other wholesale markets, and of utility and regulator relationships
• Program or project management of multi-site generation or DER deployments
• Technical depth (engineering or physics background preferred) alongside the commercial fluency to plan and defend a P&L
• Experience leading distributed teams
• Based in Texas, with regular travel to sites

Nice to have

• Time at a power equipment manufacturer, integrator or distributed power operator serving industrial or data center loads
• Retail energy, demand response or virtual power plant experience
• Experience in a public company during a capital-intensive growth phase

Why this role

• Equipment secured, first customer contracts signed and a pipeline in place, with the operating organization still being built, so you shape it
• Clear growth trajectory toward a fleet many times its current size
• A growing business backed by an established core operation