Manager Operation and Maintenance Power Plant
SpaceXAI builds frontier AI models and products including the Grok conversational assistant and a multimodal developer API.
Funding history
About SpaceXAI
SpaceXAI is a US-based AI company focused on accelerating scientific discovery and understanding the universe through reasoning, voice, image, video, and generative AI systems. Formerly xAI, it was acquired by SpaceX effective February 2, 2026, while continuing to operate the x.ai site and services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the operation and maintenance of a power plant and its gas turbines, generators, process systems, and electrical systems. You will set priorities, oversee maintenance and outages, enforce safety procedures, manage contractors, improve reliability, develop staff, and communicate operational risks and resource needs.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalency certificate
- At least 6 years of power plant or other high-reliability industrial operations and maintenance experience
- At least 2 years of direct management experience with supervisors, leads, or a multi-discipline technician organization
- Ability to work extended hours, nights, weekends, and on-call coverage
- Ability to perform hands-on work in industrial and hazardous environments
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted
Responsibilities
- Own power plant operations and maintenance across generation, process, fluid, HVAC, cooling, and electrical systems
- Lead supervisors, leads, and technicians across plant, process, and electrical crafts
- Set priorities for planned maintenance, emergent work, alarms, trips, and outages
- Own maintenance planning, scheduling, procedures, CMMS discipline, spare-parts readiness, and documentation
- Direct start-up, shutdown, switching, isolation, LOTO, and restoration activities
- Enforce safety standards for LOTO, arc-flash, confined space, and hot work
- Lead outage planning and execution with engineering, OEMs, and contractors
- Manage vendor and contractor performance, costs, and schedules
- Drive reliability improvements and root-cause investigations
- Coach supervisors and leads and manage team performance
- Communicate plant status, risks, performance, and resource needs to site leadership