Sr. Manager, Power Plant Operations - Memphis (AI)

Location: Southaven, Mississippi / Memphis, Tennessee; must be based at the Memphis/Southaven site and support nights, weekends, on-call response, and extended hours as needed.

Company

Building superintelligence infrastructure and products, including Colossus supercomputers, Grok models, and AI applications.

What you will do

• Lead 24/7 operations, maintenance, commissioning, construction, and capacity expansion for the Memphis gas turbine power plant.
• Own reliable, high-availability electrical power delivery to Colossus data center sites, including power quality and redundancy.
• Manage operators, maintenance technicians, engineers, contractors, and support staff across operations and construction.
• Oversee plant performance, testing, commissioning, and integration with data center electrical infrastructure and load.
• Develop operations and maintenance strategies covering preventive and predictive maintenance, outage planning, hot gas path management, and OEM coordination.
• Manage budgets, fuel, capital projects, regulatory relationships, staffing, contractors, and continuous improvement in availability, heat rate, emissions, cost, and safety.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 8+ years of experience in power generation operations, plant management, or related industrial or aerospace operations.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing operators, technicians, and engineers.
• Experience operating or managing simple-cycle or combined-cycle gas turbine power plants.
• Ability to supervise plant operations and construction outside normal business hours, including nights, weekends, and on-call response.
• Ability to work extended hours and maintain general physical fitness for walking the plant site, accessing equipment, and working in industrial and outdoor environments.

Nice to have

• Experience managing large-scale gas turbine facilities of 100 MW or more, preferably in high-availability critical power applications such as data centers or industrial facilities.
• Experience achieving high plant availability, reliability, and low forced outage rates.
• Experience with plant construction, commissioning, start-up, and concurrent operation and expansion of gas turbine facilities.
• Knowledge of aeroderivative and heavy-duty gas turbines, performance optimization, emissions controls such as SCR, and balance-of-plant systems.
• Experience with high-voltage electrical systems, generators, switchgear, protection, and data center or industrial interconnection.
• Understanding of environmental permitting, air quality compliance, and regulatory reporting for combustion turbines.
• Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments involving simultaneous operations and major construction.
• Ability to manage budgets, fuel costs, contractors, and complex stakeholder relationships; strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle abrupt strategic changes, aggressive timelines, and an autonomously driven start-up environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, accountability, operational excellence, rapid execution, and collaboration are emphasized.
• Work takes place in a demanding, high-growth environment supporting AI data center infrastructure.
• The role includes site leadership and representation to the Memphis community, regulators, and stakeholders.