Director of Operations (Technical – BESS)

Director of Operations (BESS – Technical)

Location: Portland, OR, Denver, CO (hybrid), or remote (preferably no eastern time zone)

This role will be responsible for overseeing the operational asset performance by leading grid operations, field services, performance engineering, and operations engineering to ensure safe, reliable, and market-optimized operation of BESS assets. The role directs field activities, establishes standard operating procedures and protocols, and oversees outage coordination. This person will also serve as Operations Safety Director, providing strategic leadership and staff development, fostering a culture of safety, quality, and accountability across the organization. Ideal candidates will have substantial utility-scale energy asset experience, combining control room and hands-on technical expertise. Proven leadership in multi-disciplinary teams, maintenance programs, and ISO/RTO market optimization is required. Strong technical fluency in inverter-based systems, high-voltage safety, SCADA/EMS platforms, and outage response is essential, along with the ability to translate operational issues into business impacts and maintain effective relationships with remote operations centers, OEMs, and O&M partners. Candidates should be disciplined, safety-driven, and capable of building scalable processes and guiding engineering and field service teams.

Core Scope

• Grid Operations
• Field Services Oversight
• Performance Engineering
• Operations Engineering
  
  

Ideal Candidate Profile: Senior operations leader with deep grid operations experience. Must have real control room exposure; ideally also has hands-on field work, or close proximity to. Engineering background or degree strongly preferred, especially with high-voltage systems. Experience setting up or helping stand up a NOC/control room is ideal; at minimum must have worked adjacent to or in a control room environment. This person will guide the company in building operational processes and potentially establishing internal control room capabilities.

Experience Requirements

• 10 years total experience in energy or power operations
• 5 years in leadership or people management roles
• Direct control room or NOC experience required. Experience setting up a NOC/control room ideal.
• Strong understanding of high-voltage systems and inverter-based assets
• Experience managing third-party O&M providers
  
  

If interested, and qualified, please apply here. Jordyn Maloney will reach out directly to qualified applicants. Must already reside within the U.S.

Unfortunately, this company is not able to provide work sponsorship.

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