Director, Gas Asset Performance

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

📋 Description

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

• Responsible for optimizing asset availability, methane recovery, gas quality, safety, and lifecycle value through collaboration with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and external technology partners.

• Provide strategic technical direction, promote continuous improvement, establish enterprise standards, and ensure that Divert's gas assets consistently meet best-in-class performance benchmarks.

• Serve as Divert's senior subject matter expert on gas systems, offering technical guidance during complex operational challenges, startup activities, equipment failures, process disruptions, and significant maintenance events.

• Own the enterprise strategy for gas management and RNG assets, encompassing 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 developing 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 the long-term roadmap for gas asset performance, including lifecycle planning, equipment standardization, technology selection, and recommendations for capital improvements.

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

• Oversee external engineering resources supporting operational facilities, ensuring that work is appropriately scoped, technically sound, and aligned with Divert's enterprise standards.

• Assess emerging technologies and industry best practices, recommending investments that enhance asset performance, lower lifecycle costs, and improve operational flexibility.

• Assist new facilities and major capital projects by evaluating equipment selections and designs for operability, maintainability, standardization, and the incorporation of lessons learned from existing operational facilities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Excellent communication, organizational, and business acumen, 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