Technical Manager - Asset Performance

Description

Vanguard Renewables, based in Weston, Massachusetts, is a national leader in environmental services and the development of food and dairy waste-to-renewable energy projects. The Company builds, owns, and operates on-farm anaerobic digestion facilities and is continuing to scale through an extensive national expansion of its Farm Powered ® platform. It is committed to advancing decarbonization by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farms and food waste, generating renewable energy, and supporting regenerative agriculture on partner farms. Vanguard Renewables is a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock.

We are seeking a Technical Manager – Asset Performance to join our operations team. Reporting into the Technical Director, this role will provide deep technical expertise, lead complex optimization efforts, and support the continuous improvement of anaerobic digestion and renewable natural gas production across the operating fleet.

Responsibilities

• Conducts advanced monitoring and interpretation of chemical, mechanical, biological, and operational KPIs across the digester fleet; develops and implements engineered strategies for system optimization and enhanced RNG yield.
• Serves as a senior technical resource for diagnosing complex process inefficiencies, conducting structured troubleshooting, and guiding data driven operational improvements.
• Supports new anaerobic digestion (AD) projects from the late-stage commissioning phase through stabilization into full-scale operations, ensuring robust process transition and technical continuity.
• Develops and maintains the standardized capital improvement project process, including technical evaluations, feasibility analysis, business case development, and risk identification.
• Evaluates emerging technologies, equipment, and operational approaches; collaborates across engineering, development, and feedstock teams to assess opportunity fit and prepare technical justification.
• Manages multiple high complexity operational and capital project workflows simultaneously, ensuring consistency, technical accuracy, and effective cross functional coordination.
• Utilizes advanced modeling and analytical tools (e.g., environmental modeling, optimization frameworks, or GIS based assessments) to improve forecasting, process control, and decision-making.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Requirements

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in biosystems, chemical, mechanical, or environmental engineering, or a similar field
• 5-7 years of engineering or operations experience in renewable energy, biological systems, wastewater treatment, industrial processes, or similar environments.
• Flexibility to travel to operational project sites as needed
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in Engineering, Environmental Management, Renewable Energy or related discipline.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of operational and environmental issues, processes, and impacts, particularly linked to renewable energy.
• Experience in anaerobic digestion, wastewater treatment, and/or food chemistry preferred
• Experience in commissioning activities, technology evaluation, process modeling, or multi-objective optimization approaches, consistent with advanced academic and industry practices in the field.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Positive attitude with a high level of integrity and dependability
• Results oriented with an ability to work under tight timelines and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
  
  

What We Offer

• Employer health care, vision, and wellness benefits.
• Annual incentive Bonus Opportunity in addition to base salary.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Job Type: Full Time
• Phone Expense Reimbursement
  
  

Vanguard Renewables is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.