Senior Director, Logistics

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

📋 Description

• Develop and implement a scalable, cost-efficient, and compliant logistics strategy for Plug Power’s hydrogen transportation operations.

• Direct the logistics team and manage the movement and delivery of hydrogen and associated products to both customers and suppliers.

• Oversee the transportation function, ensuring alignment with sourcing, production, and product strategies.

• Create logistics network strategies that support the expansion and infrastructure development across North America.

• Lead asset and capacity planning, which includes sizing the cryogenic trailer fleet, terminal and fueling infrastructure, and capital planning.

• Supervise the transportation of bulk cryogenic liquid hydrogen and gaseous tube-trailers.

• Ensure logistics preparedness for product launches, hydrogen deployments, and large-scale energy and infrastructure initiatives.

• Guarantee regulatory compliance and proactively address logistics risks.

• Build and manage a high-performing logistics organization in North America, focusing on talent development, succession planning, and organizational structure.

• Promote continuous improvement, cost efficiency, and operational excellence, being accountable for delivery costs and product-loss yield.

• Establish and track executive-level KPIs, including delivery cost per kg, OTIF, trailer utilization, boil-off rate, carrier performance, and DOT-recordable safety incidents.

• Report logistics KPIs to Executive Leadership and/or the Board of Directors.

• Lead strategic sourcing and oversight of logistics providers and subcontractors.

• Collaborate with Executive Leadership, Product Management, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Engineering, and Operations.

• Ensure logistics performance complies with customer hydrogen supply agreement obligations.

• Manage risk and business continuity planning throughout the North America hydrogen network.

• Oversee readiness for hazardous materials emergency responses and coordinate with first responders and regulators after transportation incidents.

• Assess and implement logistics technologies, systems, and digital solutions.

• Provide oversight for issue resolution, quality assurance, and corrective actions throughout the supply chain.

• Perform additional assigned responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.

• Over 10 years of logistics or supply chain experience, including leadership roles in complex, high-growth settings.

• Preferred experience with cryogenics.

• Extensive knowledge of transportation and logistics strategy, ideally within the energy, industrial, or infrastructure sectors.

• Strong preference for experience in hydrogen, hazardous materials, or over-dimensional logistics.

• Demonstrated success in building and scaling organizations, leading transformation, and achieving operational excellence.

• Strong financial management skills, including budgeting, cost optimization, and contract negotiation.

• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead cross-functional collaboration.

• Experience managing agreements throughout the entire lifecycle, including sourcing, negotiation, rate adjustments, claims, and renewals.

• Proven track record in negotiating, structuring, and managing multi-year transportation and logistics agreements with individual annual contract values exceeding $1M, or total contract value exceeding $5M, including complex commercial terms such as index- or fuel-surcharge-based pricing, take-or-pay commitments, minimum-volume commitments, rate-adjustment mechanisms, and liability/indemnity provisions.

• Knowledge of PHMSA / 49 CFR HMR, FMCSA Hours-of-Service, CDL hazmat and tanker endorsements, CGA standards, broader DOT regulations, C-TPAT, and global trade compliance frameworks.

• Experience in implementing and enhancing Transportation Management Systems, logistics technologies, and advanced operational methodologies.

• Exceptional leadership, problem-solving, and communication abilities.

• Strong judgment in a safety-critical environment, including the capacity to assess reliability, safety, and cost trade-offs under time constraints.

• High degree of professionalism, integrity, and accountability.

🏝️ Benefits

• Salaried exempt position

• Travel as required