Director, Gas Asset Performance

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

📋 Description

• Act as the primary 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 leadership, foster continuous improvement, establish enterprise standards, and ensure that Divert's gas assets consistently achieve best-in-class performance.

• Own the overall 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 developing enterprise standards for operations, 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.

• Create a long-term roadmap for gas asset performance, including lifecycle planning, equipment standardization, technology selection, and capital improvement recommendations.

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

• Oversee external engineering resources supporting operational facilities, ensuring that work is properly scoped, technically sound, and in line 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.

⛳️ 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 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.

• Exceptional 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