Director, Operations Programs & Standards

Careers at Keel

Keel Infrastructure is a publicly traded energy and digital infrastructure company that develops and owns data centers and power assets across North America.

At Keel, you're not just joining a company, you're helping build the infrastructure behind the future of compute.

We’re at the intersection of energy and technology, two industries transforming in real time.

The work is complex. The pace is fast. The impact is real.

• Ownership- we take responsibility and follow through
• Collaboration- we work across teams, functions, and borders
• Curiosity- we ask questions and keep learning
• Endurance- we build for the long term

• Fast-moving, high-growth, and hands-on
• Smart, driven people solving real challenges together
• Work that directly supports AI and next-generation infrastructure
• Room to grow, stretch, and take on more

• Competitive salary, bonus and equity opportunities
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Retirement savings with company contribution
• Employee referral program

We are currently looking for a Director, Operations Programs & Standards to join our team

Owns the Keel operational standard across the entire site portfolio - the templates, acceptance criteria, KPI definitions, and document governance that every site and every FM operator performs against, beginning with Moses Lake (Grant Node) and extending to Sharon and the PA/Canada pipeline. The FM operator drafts, populates, and executes within contracted scope; this role controls what "acceptable" means and keeps the program standard owned by Keel rather than proprietary to any single operator.

This role is the operations-side counterpart to the Director of Data Center Commissioning & Quality Assurance in the Keel delivery organization: that role owns delivery standards and turnover documentation from the construction side; this role owns the operations VDR standard and the acceptance criteria that turnover and operator program content must meet to enter operations. The two roles meet, as peers, at the standards interface and the transition-to-operations gate.

• Own the Ops VDR (vendor data requirements) standard and submittals program portfolio-wide: templates, document control, and acceptance authority over operator-drafted content (MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, site programs). Issue the standard ahead of the first Moses Lake turnover packages so acceptance occurs against Keel templates.
• Define and maintain the KPI framework all sites verify against, including measurement definitions, evidence standards, and the linkage points the FM Commercial function uses for KPI-tied commercial mechanisms.
• Own CMMS and document management governance from the owner side: configuration standards, data ownership, export and audit access, CMMS population acceptance criteria, and cross-site consistency .
• Serve as the operations standards counterpart to the delivery organization: align the Ops VDR standard with the Director of Cx & QA's turnover documentation templates so handover packages land acceptance-ready.
• Provide the program-level remote audit backstop to onsite QA/QC: periodic audits of CMMS data, PM completion trends, and reporting integrity across sites.
• Standardize the operating model across the portfolio as new builds come online; codify the operations transition playbook with the Site Director and delivery organization after Moses Lake.
• Publish periodic operations program and standards performance reporting to Operations leadership.

Drafting site operating procedures (operator scope, to Keel templates); commissioning standards, test scripts, and construction QA/QC (Director, Data Center Commissioning &…