Senior Manager, Operations Technology

Company Overview

es Volta, LP is a leading developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America. We are at the forefront of the fast-growing battery energy storage market, and our projects are helping to transition the nation’s electric grid to a cleaner and more reliable future. Our storage projects provide major utilities with a multitude of important services including reliable fast-ramping capacity, energy and ancillary grid services including renewable energy integration support.

es Volta is independently owned, and we are among the largest players in the US energy storage sector with about 1.5 GWh of projects in operation or construction under contract with utilities and other power buyers, and a 20+ GWh development pipeline of upcoming project opportunities.

We are headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with employees in multiple regions across the U.S. Our diverse management team has many decades of experience in the renewable energy, utility, and independent power sectors.

We are seeking motivated and energetic individuals to join as Senior Manager, Operations Technology to serve as the fleet Operational Technology (OT) design authority and owner’s technical lead for OT systems across the portfolio. This role standardizes OT architecture, control and telemetry implementations, operational runbooks, and evidence production across sites and vendors throughout the full asset lifecycle (development, pre-construction, construction, commissioning/commercial operation date (COD), and operations).

The role partners closely with Operations, Operations Engineering, Information Technology (IT)/Security, Compliance, Asset Management, and external vendors to ensure OT systems are reliable, secure, scalable, and operationally ready.

Compliance retains ownership of regulatory interpretation, compliance program governance, and regulator and audit responses. This role owns OT control execution, OT system governance, and the technical artifacts and evidence needed to support compliance and audit readiness. This role holds owner-side approval authority for OT access and material OT changes (including access changes, control/telemetry configuration changes, and network/security changes impacting OT), including vendor planned work.

The role may pause or elevate work that does not meet fleet standards, documentation, safety requirements, or audit‑evidence expectations.

• Own OT lifecycle for the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) fleet and Remote Operations Center (ROC), including the Energy Management System (EMS), site controllers, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), telemetry, communications, and monitoring/logging.
• Act as fleet OT design authority: define and maintain standards/baselines (architecture, segmentation, naming, telemetry, monitoring) and enforce adoption.
• Embed OT requirements into development and Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) scopes through design reviews and required as‑built deliverables.
• Define commissioning and turnover criteria, including Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and Site Acceptance Test (SAT) scope, point-to-point checks, telemetry validation, and control‑mode readiness; partner with Operations Engineering to close gaps.
• Own Independent System Operator (ISO)-facing dispatch readiness: control‑mode governance, telemetry quality, communications performance, and ROC/market coordination.
• Ensure 24×7 operational readiness via runbooks, alarm rationalization, escalation paths, and data‑quality controls that support dispatch performance.
• Administer OT vendor performance (managed OT security services, EMS vendors, and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners): set requirements, approve work, verify deliverables, enforce service level agreements (SLAs), and lead escalations; deliver audit‑ready OT evidence and exception tracking to Compliance and run a recurring vendor performance review cadence aligned to contract deliverables and operational risk.
• Run OT cybersecurity and access governance with IT/Security and managed providers, including remote access workflows,…