VP O&M, Portfolio Operations & Performance

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Location(s):

Austin, TX, US, 78701

RWE Americas, LLC
To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent
Functional area: Operations & Maintenance Remuneration: Exempt

The VP O&M, Portfolio Operations & Performance provides executive leadership for portfolio-wide operational capabilities that enable safe, reliable, high-quality, and cost-effective execution across the fleet. The role establishes strategy, governance, standards, and performance management for Inventory Control, Tiger Team Operations, Maintenance Coordination, and the Organizational Inspection Program (OIP/QA-QC). This leader connects enterprise priorities with regional execution, scales best practices, and builds durable systems that improve asset performance, execution quality, resource readiness, and organizational accountability.

Role Responsibilities:

• Creates and executes the long-term strategy, operating model, and capability roadmap for assigned portfolio operations functions, aligning priorities to safety, reliability, availability, quality, cost, and growth objectives
• Provides executive oversight for Inventory Control, Tiger Team Operations, Maintenance Coordination, and the Organizational Inspection Program; defines clear charters, interfaces, service expectations, and measures of success for each function
• Establishes enterprise governance, management routines, performance dashboards, escalation paths, and decision rights that strengthen execution discipline and enable timely intervention on portfolio risks and opportunities
• Designs and implements the Organizational Inspection Program and associated QA/QC framework, including inspection standards, audit protocols, acceptance criteria, corrective-action governance, trend reporting, and organizational learning
• Leads inventory and critical-spares strategy by strengthening demand planning, material readiness, inventory accuracy, controls, standardization, and cross-functional coordination with Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, and Operations
• Directs maintenance coordination and portfolio scheduling practices to improve work readiness, outage alignment, resource utilization, schedule adherence, backlog management, and coordination across sites, regions, and technical functions
• Leads Tiger Team strategy and deployment, aligning specialized internal resources to high-priority corrective work, major maintenance, recovery efforts, and strategic initiatives while improving productivity, standardization, and cost effectiveness
• Identifies systemic performance losses, recurring quality issues, and execution barriers; sponsor root-cause analysis, corrective actions, continuous improvement, and replication of proven practices across the portfolio
• Serves as a role model for RWE's Essential Behaviors by demonstrating the courage to make difficult decisions and challenge existing thinking, creating impact through strategic leadership and operational results, and fostering a collaborative #TeamRWE culture that develops leaders, strengthens cross-functional partnerships, and drives enterprise-wide performance improvement

Job Requirements and

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline required
• Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Operations, or a related discipline preferred
• Professional credentials such as PMP, PE, Lean Six Sigma, Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional, or quality/audit certification are preferred where relevant
• Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible experience in operations, maintenance, reliability, technical services, project or program management, quality, supply chain, asset management, or a related industrial field
• Minimum 8 years of leadership experience, including responsibility for managers, cross-functional teams, or geographically dispersed organizations
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale programs, operating-model development, organizational transformation, and sustained performance improvement
• Experience in renewable energy, power generation, utilities, heavy industrial operations, or another asset-intensive and highly regulated environment preferred
• Demonstrated experience balancing safety, quality, reliability, service, schedule, cost, risk, and workforce considerations in executive decision-making
• Executive leadership with the ability to translate strategy into clear priorities, operating mechanisms, measurable outcomes, and accountable execution
• Advanced business and financial acumen, including resource allocation, investment prioritization, budget oversight, cost-benefit evaluation, and performance reporting
• Expert knowledge of operations and maintenance practices, reliability improvement, quality systems, inspection programs, maintenance planning and scheduling, inventory controls, and program governance
• Strong analytical and…