Operations Readiness Manager

Core Scientific is a leading provider of infrastructure for high-performance compute in North America. Our mission is to accelerate digital innovation by scaling high-value compute rapidly, efficiently, and responsibly. We transform energy into high-value compute with unmatched efficiency e Scientific is a publicly trade company (NASDAQ: CORZ). We power AI, HPC, and other next-generation data center workloads demanding exceptional computing power, in addition to our digital asset mining operations.

Our footprint consists of 11 data center campuses across seven states, housing advanced infrastructure for our customers. What sets us apart? We have an entrepreneurial culture, a "can-do" and collaborative attitude, and we own and control our infrastructure. These strategic advantages enable us to maintain operational excellence, increase efficiency, and rapidly deploy cutting-edge innovations developed by our team of experts.

Join us and accelerate your career alongside our groundbreaking journey. We seek smart, creative, and collaborative professionals who thrive in a fast-paced, result-driven environment.

The Operations Readiness Manager owns the national framework used to prepare new facilities, expansions, and major infrastructure projects for safe and reliable operation. The role integrates technical completion with the staffing, training, procedures, maintenance programs, operational systems, contracts, spare parts, documentation, and support required for Operations Engineering and Site Operations to accept each release boundary. The position partners with Site Development and the national discipline team while maintaining independent visibility of readiness risks and incomplete prerequisites.

Develop and maintain national operational-readiness standards, acceptance gates, responsibility matrices, checklists, evidence requirements, policies, and reporting frameworks. Establish readiness criteria for Early Customer Access, Progressive Capacity Release, production readiness, conditional turnover, and final acceptance. Define national requirements for staffing, qualifications, training, procedures, preventive maintenance, work management, vendor support, spare parts, tools, consumables, and emergency response. Govern readiness deviations by documenting risks, interim controls, ownership, closure requirements, and approval workflows.

Incorporate lessons learned, early-life performance data, operational incidents, and identified gaps to continuously improve readiness standards. Engage during design and construction to identify operational, maintainability, staffing, safety, access, service-support, and turnover requirements before they impact delivery schedules. Maintain integrated readiness plans aligned with design, commissioning, customer-access, capacity-release, and turnover milestones. Assess site organization, staffing models, shift coverage, onboarding, escalation paths, and competency requirements against systems entering service.

Coordinate development and review of operating procedures, maintenance plans, permits, contracts, vendor support agreements, spares strategies, tools, and emergency-response resources. Lead readiness reviews, system demonstrations, operating-scenario walkthroughs, tabletop exercises, and drills to validate operational preparedness. Verify that CMMS data, asset hierarchies, preventive-maintenance programs, work-order workflows, warranties, vendor contacts, monitoring access, alarm routing, and reporting processes are established before acceptance. Track readiness gaps through closure, escalating issues that may impact safety, reliability, schedules, or customer commitments.

Coordinate with national technical leads and…