Director, Gas Asset Performance

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

📋 Description

• Act as Divert's leading subject matter expert in gas systems, offering technical guidance during intricate operational challenges, startup processes, equipment malfunctions, process disturbances, and significant maintenance activities.

• Oversee the enterprise strategy for gas handling 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 formulating enterprise standards for operation, maintenance, commissioning, critical spare parts, preventive maintenance, operational procedures, and asset documentation.

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

• Design the long-term strategy 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 internal teams and external partners to implement sustainable corrective actions and ensure accountability from vendors regarding performance, warranty, and service quality.

• Manage external engineering resources aiding operating facilities, ensuring that work is appropriately scoped, technically sound, and in alignment with Divert's enterprise standards.

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

⛳️ 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 teams without direct authority.

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

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

• Exceptional communication, organizational, and business acumen, with the ability to translate technical challenges 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