Manager, Power Generation Operations

About the role

NorthMark Compute & Cloud (NMC²) operates at the leading edge of high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure, delivering mission-critical systems that accelerate scientific discovery and industrial innovation. This senior role leads owner oversight, governance, risk management, and safety assurance for a natural-gas-fired, self-generation power plant that directly supports a mission-critical HPC center. Day-to-day operations and maintenance are executed by an outsourced, best-in-class O&M provider, while this position ensures alignment with the Company’s safety standards, uptime requirements, and operational objectives.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Company’s accountable authority for power-plant operations and outsourced execution.
• Provide strategic direction, oversight, and performance governance to the O&M service provider.
• Establish and enforce clear operational expectations, boundaries, and escalation paths.
• Review, approve, and monitor operating plans such as staffing models, training programs, maintenance strategies, outage planning and execution.
• Chair or participate in monthly and quarterly operational reviews with the O&M provider.
• Serve as the Owner’s safety and risk champion for the power-generation program.
• Ensure the O&M provider’s safety program meets or exceeds Company, regulatory, and industry best-practice standards.
• Lead and/or oversee HAZID and HAZOP studies, Job Safety Analyses (JSA), Management of Change (MOC) processes, and Arc-flash, gas safety, confined space, and LOTO programs.
• Validate that risk assessments are current, actively used in operations, and reflected in SOPs, MOPs, and EOPs.
• Participate in near miss reviews, incident investigations, root-cause analyses, and corrective-action tracking.
• Ensure the power plant consistently meets HPCC load demand requirements, availability and reliability targets, and start-time and ramp-rate commitments.
• Monitor and validate key performance indicators (KPIs), including forced outage rate, availability and capacity factor, maintenance compliance, and safety performance.
• Provide Owner concurrence for major operational decisions that may impact HPCC uptime or redundancy.
• Act as the power-generation SME within the broader HPCC Operations & Infrastructure organization.
• Ensure seamless coordination between power plant operations, HPCC electrical distribution, UPS, BESS, and load-shedding strategies.
• Support integrated commissioning, black-start and island-mode testing, and emergency operating procedures across power plant and HPCC systems.
• Participate in tabletop exercises and live simulations involving grid loss and contingency events.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations, environmental permits, air emissions and fuel-handling requirements.
• Oversee regulatory inspections and audits in coordination with the O&M provider.
• Review compliance documentation and corrective-action plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical) or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of power-generation experience, with significant exposure to natural gas–fired generation and critical infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing or governing outsourced power-plant O&M services.
• Strong working knowledge of gas turbines and/or reciprocating engines, balance-of-plant systems, and protection, controls, and plant automation.
• Proven leadership in safety management, HAZID, and risk mitigation.
• Experience supporting mission-critical or data-center-integrated power plants.
• Familiarity with islanded and black-start capable generation, BESS integration, grid interconnection and utility coordination.
• Formal training or certification in HAZOP / HAZID, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Incident Command or Emergency Response.