Chief Plant Operations Officer
industrial_energy_operations › Plant Operations (Energy/Mining) · E3 — E3 — Vice President · Executive
Executive accountable for all power generation or mining plant operations across the organization.
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Executive accountable for all power generation or mining plant operations across the organization. At the Vice President (E3) level, the role owns a division, market and competitive strategy, and drives division-wide. Leads a division's leadership team.
What this level does
- Leads a large division or regional operations business through senior executives, carrying enterprise-level risk for asset integrity, safety and continuity of energy/mineral supply
- Shapes corporate operations strategy for the division — capital allocation across the asset base, fleet/plant lifecycle and long-range production capacity
- Represents the operations business externally with regulators, industry bodies and communities on major strategic and licensing matters
- Owns the critical strategic decisions that balance production output against safety, environmental and regulatory exposure at enterprise scale
- Builds the senior-executive leadership bench and the operating model that governs multiple regional operations and functions
- Knowledge applied
- Shapes corporate operations strategy for a large division or region, applying enterprise-level judgment on asset base, fleet lifecycle and long-range capacity.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Owns enterprise-level risk with critical strategic impact — asset integrity, safety, environmental exposure and continuity of supply across a large division/region.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Represents the operations business externally to regulators, industry bodies and communities and participates in corporate strategy; leads major business areas through senior executives.
- Typical experience
- 15–20+ years with demonstrated enterprise-impact experience leading regional or divisional operations.
Skills at this level
- Operations Monitoring
- — Watches gauges, dials, meters and control-room display screens to confirm power-generating, distribution and processing equipment is operating within spec, and reads the pattern of indicators to detect operating problems early.
- Generation Output Control
- — Directs the regulation of electrical output — matching phase, frequency and voltage supplied to panels and adjusting the flow of power between generating stations and substations — as an accountable operating outcome across the asset base.
- Plant Safety and Regulatory Compliance
- — Sets and enforces compliance with EPA, OSHA and DOT standards (and NRC licensing for nuclear operations) across operating sites, treating safety excellence as a condition of keeping plants running and profitable.
- Portfolio Asset Oversight
- — Manages performance across multiple plant assets — reliability, uptime, output and cost-per-unit — allocating resources between facilities and shifting from site-level problem-solving to portfolio-level operational strategy.
- Operational Strategy
- — Translates production, reliability and cost targets into a multi-year operating plan for the function or division, deciding how the asset base is run, maintained and grown over the long term.
- Capital Allocation for Operations
- — Owns capital allocation across the operations portfolio and full project lifecycle — planning, permitting, execution and closure — weighing investment against production capacity, asset integrity and financial return.
- Regulatory and External Representation
- — Represents the operations business to regulators, industry bodies and communities on licensing, environmental and strategic matters, defending the enterprise's operating posture and shaping outcomes.
- Executive Team Leadership
- — Coaches and develops site managers, Directors and VPs into a leadership bench, building the operating model and safety culture that governs plants across sites, divisions and regions.
- Quantitative Foundation
- — Applies a strong math and science background to interpret operating data — output, load, throughput and equipment performance — and to judge the technical trade-offs behind operations decisions.
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