Director, Renewable Plant Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Renewables Plant · M5 — M5 — Senior Director · Management
Directs all battery system installation, testing, and biomass materials research activities across renewable energy plant sites.
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Directs all battery system installation, testing, and biomass materials research activities across renewable energy plant sites. At the Senior Director (M5) level, the role owns multiple functions or a large department, org-level trade-offs and investment, and drives multi-function results. Leads directors and managers.
What this level does
- Directs plant operations at the division or company level, with decisions impacting overall generation portfolio performance and reliability.
- Defines the operating methods and standards used across all renewable sites, resolving complex org-wide issues around availability, compliance, and grid coordination.
- Leads the operations organization through department managers, setting strategic direction for safety, environmental compliance, and net capacity factor.
- Influences executives and major customers/off-takers on operational commitments, outage impact, and generation targets.
- Owns division-wide accountability for environmental permits, NERC compliance, and long-term operational readiness.
- Knowledge applied
- Defines operating methods and standards impacting division/company-wide generation reliability and compliance.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves complex org-wide operational issues spanning availability, environmental compliance, and grid integration.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Influences executives and major off-takers on operational commitments; leads through department managers.
- Typical experience
- 10–12+ years, second-level management and operational strategy work.
Skills at this level
- SCADA and Control-Room Operations Leadership
- — Directs plant monitoring and control through control-room interfaces and SCADA systems, ensuring crews track temperature, pressure, flow rates, and generator/turbine output and respond correctly to alarm conditions.
- Mechanical and Electrical Plant Oversight
- — Supervises safe operation and maintenance of high-voltage systems and mechanical/electrical equipment across the renewables plant, guiding diagnosis and repair of field and plant malfunctions.
- Generation Efficiency Optimization
- — Maximizes power-generation efficiency by optimizing system parameters, minimizing energy waste, and driving performance adjustments; calculates and improves net capacity factor for renewable technologies.
- Grid Coordination and Dispatch Integration
- — Coordinates with distributors and dispatchers so electricity flows to substations, integrating variable renewable resources and responding to dynamic grid conditions.
- Environmental Permit and Regulatory Compliance
- — Ensures the plant is operated and maintained within all environmental limits and permits and keeps operations aligned with evolving industry regulations, policies, and compliance frameworks such as NERC CIP.
- Plant Safety and Occupational-Health Management
- — Enforces staff adherence to safety and occupational-health regulations in the plant environment, coaching crews on safe work around high-voltage and rotating equipment.
- Operational Troubleshooting Direction
- — Directs diagnosis and resolution of operational issues using plant-systems expertise, escalating from routine adjustments to real-time upset-condition problem-handling.
- Operating Procedure Authoring and Governance
- — Originates, monitors, and governs plant procedures and technical instructions so the operating framework crews follow stays accurate and current.
- Shift and Crew Leadership
- — Supervises shift crews and junior supervisors, owning scheduling, handover protocols, staffing, and tactical accountability for plant availability.
- Operations Budget and Performance Management
- — Manages the operations budget, capital-maintenance priorities, and performance standards for availability, capacity factor, and safety across teams or sites.
- Operational Data Analysis
- — Interprets and analyzes data from energy usage, production rates, and equipment performance to ensure the plant operates efficiently and safely and to evaluate operating trends.
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