Power Plant Operations Manager (Renewable)

Company Description:
Anaergia is a global leader in the production of clean energy, fertilizer, and recycled water from virtually any waste stream, offering the widest range of maximizing resource recovery solutions for the municipal, industrial, commercial, and agricultural markets. Anaergia's integrated solutions create value for its customers in the form of renewable energy, quality fertilizers, and clean water, while dramatically reducing the cost of waste management. Anaergia delivers integrated solutions globally through established offices in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and its breakthrough technologies are in use at over a thousand resource recovery facilities worldwide, reducing greenhouse gas emissions while creating new revenue sources for its clients.
Facility Description
Anaergia's Rialto, California Bioenergy Facility is the largest organics waste diversion facility in North America. The facility converts organic waste streams into renewable electricity, renewable natural gas, and fertilizer products, which would otherwise be destined for landfill disposal. The facility will utilize Anaergia's proprietary organics polishing system, anaerobic digestion, digestate drying, pyrolysis, and biogas conditioning to supply renewable natural gas into the pipeline and also create quality fertilizers. The facility utilizes four combined heat and power engines to generate electricity for the site. The Rialto project reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 220,200 metric tons per year.
Job Description:
This role reports to the Facility Manager at Rialto. The Operations Manager has responsibility for managing aspects of the site, including safety, environmental, financial, HR, administration, legal, engineering, operations, maintenance, and project management. The Operations Manager will lead, manage, and coach a team of operations and plant support employees at the site. The Operations Manager, under the direction of the Facility Manager, has responsibility for establishing and maintaining world-class safety and environmental standards for the site while driving a strong culture of operational discipline. The Operations Manager has the responsibility to support the Facility Manager in meeting financial, operational, and performance goals for the facility and manage contractual matters for the site. The Operations Manager will develop, review, and implement procedures that improve operational efficiencies and increase revenues by using "Best Practices" while maintaining a high safety standard and compliance with all regulatory requirements. The Operations Manager will be responsible for developing and deploying lean, efficient production and executing strategy through operational excellence, quality improvement, customer and supplier engagement, enhanced equipment reliability, repair and maintenance practices, business process consulting, supply chain development, and alignment of the production line, to meet new product quality and developments.
Job Requirements:
Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a business or technical field. Eight Years of progressive, relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
Experience: Possesses a Minimum of 5 years of Operational Management (Administration, Operation, and Engineering) experience of similar facilities, including Anaerobic Digestion, Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Processes, Solid Waste, and/or Power Production.
Key Competencies:
The Operations Manager has the following skill sets:
Ability to motivate, engage, and manage a team to achieve goals, including safety, environmental, financial, and production goals
Ability to maintain and promote a safe work site for employees, contractors, vendors, and visitors.
Ability to operate the facility in compliance with all safety and environmental regulations and permits
Ability to support the Facility Manager with all contractual agreements with utilities, suppliers, customers, and contractors
Skilled in understanding technical drawings, documents, and specifications. Experienced in training and coaching employees
Solid Waste/ Wastewater/ Biogas / Power Generation/ Industrial specific competences Hands-on, "roll-up sleeves" management style
Excellent interpersonal communication and cross-functional team management skills
Ability to coordinate staff and contractor efforts to solve problems and optimize plant operation.
Strong analytical, decision-making, and initiative capabilities
Ability to develop and utilize Standard Operating Procedures utilizing vendor manuals, instructions, and industry knowledge
Ability to analyze data and write reports
Ability to implement budgets and long-term plans
Ability to administer company policies and procedures and maintain a strong culture of operational discipline
Participate in public forums to support business development and community education.
Fluent in English
Goals
Safety- Develop and maintain a world-class culture of safety to be adhered to by all employees and contractors at the site.
Compliance - Maintain an immaculate compliance record with all regulatory and governmental agencies.
Championing company's policy frame work - Support the development of the Company's Vision Statement and the Company's strategy defining the Standards and code to be practiced, providing resources and implementing HR practices, site security and monitoring, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Work Instruction (WI) around operations, maintenance, production, accounting, safety, environmental monitoring and reporting, documentation, and record keeping; Establish and implement facility policies, goals, objectives and procedures that are in line with the Company's Vision Statement and Strategy conferring with other management team members as appropriate.
Budget and Revenue - Meet the Facility's annual financial and commercial targets as set by the Managing Director. Meet the annual expected availability and profitability of the assets. Support reporting on monthly P&L and optimize profitability through operational and maintenance efficiencies and revenue enhancements that will result from market conditions.
Leadership - Abide by all internally established control systems and authorities; Lead by personal example and encourage all employees to conduct their activities in accordance with all applicable laws and the Company's standards and policies, including its safety, health, and environmental policies.
Human Resources - Implement performance incentive plan, keep high employee engagement and morale, minimize staff turnover, establish accountability expectations, develop leaders, support effective recruiting and staffing.
Reporting - Effective reporting to help the Facility Manager, Managing Director, and VP of Plant Operations draw conclusions, make inferences, and elicit crucial decisions.
Planning and Procedures -

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No