Senior Manager, Substation Operations
OracleAbout the role
Role Overview
As Senior Manager, Substation Operations, you will lead operational oversight, reliability planning, and integration readiness for critical substation and transmission infrastructure supporting North American data center operations. This role ensures the continuous availability and resiliency of power supply systems through disciplined operations, maintenance governance, utility coordination, and proactive risk mitigation.
You will serve as the operational integration lead for sites incorporating power generation and grid-interconnection assets, ensuring a seamless transition from construction and commissioning into safe, reliable commercial operations. You will partner across Power Generation Operations, Engineering, Development, Construction, Commissioning, utilities, transmission operators, OEMs, vendors, and site operations teams to maintain readiness, reliability, and accountability across the power infrastructure portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
Provide leadership and oversight for the operation, maintenance, integration, and reliability of critical substation and transmission infrastructure supporting data center operations.
Ensure continuous availability and resiliency of power supply systems through proactive operating discipline, risk identification, and reliability governance.
Develop maintenance, inspection, testing, and reliability programs for substations, transmission assets, grid-interconnection equipment, protection systems, and associated electrical infrastructure.
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and lessons-learned execution for substation and power delivery events.
Build and maintain strong relationships with utility providers, transmission operators, interconnection partners, and senior utility leadership to ensure obligations and service commitments are met.
Assess existing infrastructure for operational vulnerabilities, capacity constraints, reliability risks, and maintenance gaps; develop mitigation strategies and execution plans.
Partner with engineering, development, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure future infrastructure designs meet reliability, maintainability, safety, and operational readiness expectations.
Serve as the operations integration lead for facilities incorporating generation assets, substations, transmission interconnections, and other critical power infrastructure.
Coordinate transition activities between construction, commissioning, acceptance testing, asset onboarding, procedure development, training, staffing, and commercial operations teams.
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