Senior Manager, Substation Operations

Key Responsibilities 

• Provide leadership and oversight for the operation, maintenance, integration, and reliability of critical substation and transmission infrastructure supporting data center operations. 

• Ensure continuous availability and resiliency of power supply systems through proactive operating discipline, risk identification, and reliability governance. 

• Develop maintenance, inspection, testing, and reliability programs for substations, transmission assets, grid-interconnection equipment, protection systems, and associated electrical infrastructure. 

• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and lessons-learned execution for substation and power delivery events. 

• Build and maintain strong relationships with utility providers, transmission operators, interconnection partners, and senior utility leadership to ensure obligations and service commitments are met. 

• Assess existing infrastructure for operational vulnerabilities, capacity constraints, reliability risks, and maintenance gaps; develop mitigation strategies and execution plans. 

• Partner with engineering, development, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure future infrastructure designs meet reliability, maintainability, safety, and operational readiness expectations. 

• Serve as the operations integration lead for facilities incorporating generation assets, substations, transmission interconnections, and other critical power infrastructure. 

• Coordinate transition activities between construction, commissioning, acceptance testing, asset onboarding, procedure development, training, staffing, and commercial operations teams. 

• Ensure operational readiness through procedures, staffing plans, training programs, maintenance frameworks, spare parts planning, and handoff governance. 

• Build, lead, and develop a team responsible for substation operations, asset integration, reliability execution, and operational readiness activities. 

• Provide leadership with clear visibility into operational risks, utility dependencies, reliability trends, readiness gaps, outage exposure, and resource requirements. 

Ideal Candidate Profile 

• 10+ years of experience in transmission and substation operations, including construction, commissioning, maintenance, protection systems, or high-voltage infrastructure operations. 

• Experience managing critical electrical infrastructure and high-reliability operations in utility, power generation, data center, industrial, or mission-critical environments. 

• Experience working directly with utility leadership, transmission operators, OEMs, contractors, and internal technical stakeholders in complex operating environments. 

• Experience with power generation facilities and transitioning large projects from construction and commissioning into commercial operations. 

• Proven leadership experience managing teams, building technical capability, and developing scalable operational standards. 

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, construction management, or equivalent practical experience. 

Skills and Competencies 

• Strong technical and operational judgment across substations, transmission infrastructure, high-voltage equipment, protection systems, utility interfaces, and power reliability. 

• Leadership discipline in staffing, team development, procedure ownership, maintenance governance, incident response, and operational readiness. 

• Strong utility partnership skills with the ability to manage service expectations, contractual obligations, escalation paths, and executive-level engagement. 

• Ability to bridge engineering design, construction execution, commissioning evidence, operational procedures, and long-term maintenance requirements. 

• Strong risk management mindset with the ability to identify vulnerabilities, prioritize mitigations, and communicate operational exposure clearly. 

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready updates, decision summaries, and readiness reporting. 

Preferred Skills / Certifications 

• Experience supporting mission-critical facilities, hyperscale data centers, colocation environments, large industrial operations, utilities, or power generation assets. 

• Experience with utility-scale generation, grid interconnection projects, high-voltage switching, relay protection, SCADA, NERC/FERC concepts, or substation automation. 

• Experience developing maintenance programs, operating procedures, training plans, reliability dashboards, or operational readiness playbooks. 

• Professional engineering license, PMP, NERC, electrical safety, high-voltage switching, or related operations/reliability certification. 

• Experience leading geographically distributed teams or coordinating operational readiness across multiple sites. 

Physical Demands / Work Environment 

This role operates across office, remote collaboration, utility, construction, commissioning, substation, generation, and active data center environments. The position may require travel up to 50% based on project and operational needs. Site work may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, working near energized infrastructure under approved procedures, and following all safety, PPE, security, and access-control requirements. 

This role supports mission-critical infrastructure where safety, uptime, procedural accuracy, and operational consistency are essential. Regular attendance, collaboration across time zones, schedule flexibility, and occasional support during readiness milestones, escalations, audits, or urgent operational activities may be required. 

Market Alignment 

This role profile reflects common marketplace expectations for senior infrastructure engineering roles in hyperscale, cloud infrastructure, data center, and mission-critical environments. Comparable role profiles emphasize operational discipline, cross-functional execution, scalable standards, stakeholder alignment, technical depth, and measurable outcomes that support reliability, customer trust, safety, and portfolio growth. 

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? 

• Global impact at cloud scale where power reliability directly supports mission-critical customer workloads. 

• Technically rigorous environment where substation operations, utility coordination, safety, and reliability discipline matter every day. 

• Culture built on ownership, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and disciplined transition from construction to operations. 

• Long-term career development across power generation, infrastructure engineering, data center operations, and global cloud infrastructure leadership