Director, Gas Asset Performance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Connecticut.

📋 Description

• Act as the enterprise lead for the performance of Divert's biogas and renewable natural gas (RNG) assets across all operational facilities.

• Accountable for optimizing asset availability, methane recovery, gas quality, safety, and lifecycle value by collaborating with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and external technology partners.

• Provides strategic technical guidance, promotes continuous improvement, sets enterprise standards, and ensures that Divert's gas assets consistently reach best-in-class performance.

• Own the overarching strategy for gas handling and RNG assets, which includes gas collection, compression, upgrading, CO2 removal, gas quality, pipeline injection, flares, analyzers, and related utility systems.

• Collaborate closely with Operations and Maintenance to enhance RNG performance by creating enterprise standards for operation, maintenance, commissioning, critical spare parts, preventive maintenance, operating procedures, and asset documentation.

• Establish and monitor performance metrics and benchmarks across all operational facilities, identifying trends and disseminating best practices throughout the organization.

• Formulate a long-term roadmap for gas asset performance, encompassing lifecycle planning, equipment standardization, technology selection, and recommendations for capital improvements.

• Lead root cause analyses for significant production losses and equipment failures, coordinating internal teams and external partners to implement lasting corrective actions and hold vendors accountable for performance, warranty, and service quality.

• Oversee external engineering resources supporting operational facilities, ensuring that work is appropriately defined, technically robust, and in alignment with Divert's enterprise standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or a related engineering field.

• Over 10 years of experience in supporting, operating, maintaining, optimizing, or commissioning industrial gas handling, RNG, biogas, or similar process facilities.

• Proven track record of enhancing operational performance across multiple facilities.

• Experience in influencing cross-functional organizations without direct authority.

• Experience in managing OEMs, engineering consultants, specialty contractors, and technology vendors.

• Strong comprehension of industrial asset management, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and lifecycle planning.

• Exceptional communication, organizational, and business insight with the capability to translate technical issues into operational and capital priorities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, Vision, and Dental Benefits (effective the first of the month following your date of hire!)

• Life Insurance

• Safe harbor 401(k) plan

• Paid Time Off

• Opportunities for Advancement with a Rapidly Growing, Mission-Driven Organization