Vice President, Reliability and Technical Assurance

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

📋 Description

• Establish the baseline for fleetwide reliability and risk model.

• Create a unified reliability and resilience baseline.

• Develop a risk-ranking method that focuses on customer impact.

• Set up a recurring assurance cycle and evidence model for essential controls.

• Oversee technical assurance, inspections, and verification of critical controls across electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, emergency response, and commissioning domains.

• Lead corrective action initiatives and promote closed-loop learning from incidents, near misses, and weak signals.

• Maintain a corrective action register prioritized by risk.

• Ensure that lessons learned contribute to fleetwide standards, procedures, telemetry, supplier requirements, training, and capital plans.

• Promote clear reporting and responsible learning.

• Create a roadmap for detecting configuration and automation drift.

• Collaborate with Product, Automation, IT, and Cybersecurity teams on telemetry, alarm quality, configuration management, and AI-driven drift detection.

• Establish governance and executive reporting in partnership with Operations.

• Prepare succinct monthly executive reports and portfolio-level insights on operational performance, risk, and trends.

• Define and oversee global operational standards, performance metrics, and risk management.

• Own the framework for global operational standards and related policies.

• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics, and reporting structures across the portfolio.

• Audit compliance, identify systemic issues, and drive consistency, governance, accountability, and continuous improvement across various regions.

• Build and lead a dedicated team with budgetary responsibilities.

• Exercise formal assurance authority by requiring evidence and management responses, conducting reviews and inspections, and escalating findings to the Executive Leadership Team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 15 years in mission-critical operations, reliability engineering, operational assurance, critical facilities, industrial operations, process safety, or a similar high-reliability environment.

• Proven experience in leading reliability, technical assurance, operational excellence, engineering assurance, or risk-based inspection across a complex operational fleet.

• Strong knowledge of mission-critical environments involving electrical, mechanical, controls, automation, commissioning, maintenance, and operational procedures.

• Experience in investigating incidents, near misses, recurring defects, or systemic reliability challenges, as well as translating findings into actionable corrective measures.

• Expertise in creating governance or assurance frameworks that foster operational improvement beyond mere reporting.

• Credible presence in the field, comfortable with site visits, control rooms, methods of procedure, maintenance realities, and engaging in challenging technical discussions.

• Ability to influence within a matrixed organization and effectively challenge senior regional, operations, engineering, and technical leaders while preserving trust and collaboration.

• Proficiency in executive-level communication, including succinct risk narratives, decision-ready documents, and establishing credibility with senior executives.

• Willingness to travel globally up to 30%-40%, with potential for increased travel over time.

• Preferred: Experience in hyperscale data center or colocation operations.

• Preferred: Background in utilities, power generation, aviation, semiconductor manufacturing, oil and gas, nuclear, pharmaceuticals, or advanced manufacturing.

• Preferred: Familiarity with operational technology, BMS and SCADA systems, alarm quality, configuration management, and telemetry.

• Preferred: Experience in establishing or scaling a new function in a high-growth setting.

• Preferred: Professional engineering qualification or equivalent technical credibility.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Life and AD&D insurance.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Paid time off.

• Employee assistance program.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Additional voluntary benefits.

• Competitive total compensation package above market standards.

• Health and welfare benefits.

• Retirement benefits.

• Paid leave benefits.

• Opportunities for recognition, training, and development.