Hatch

Operational Readiness Lead - Salt Lake City

Hatch • $125K — $150K *
Energy & Utilities
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in operational excellence and readiness program delivery, especially on projects over $1B
  • Cross-functional experience in operations such as site management and safety
  • Proven track record in operational improvement and commissioning
  • Demonstrated success in client engagement and business development
  • Deep knowledge in one of the core sectors: Metals, Energy, or Infrastructure.
  • Strong strategic planning and operational execution skills
  • Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead project operations readiness and drive organizational excellence.
  • Implement operational readiness strategies for complex projects.
  • Oversee scheduling and resource allocation for effective operations.
  • Engage with senior stakeholders to ensure project alignment.
  • Guide teams on safety and quality delivery at remote sites.
  • Build client relationships and identify service enhancement opportunities.
  • Mentor and develop emerging professionals in operations readiness.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Long-term career development
  • Opportunities for global collaboration
  • Supportive and inclusive company culture
  • Innovative project work that makes a difference.
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 99221

Job Category: Commissioning

Location: Salt Lake City, UT, United States

CORE brings together the necessary elements of a project to achieve nameplate value and deliver peak asset performance. We take a staged approach to verifying technical readiness and ensuring organizational preparedness, right up to achieving full operational capacity.

Candidates must be willing to travel to meet teams and clients including remote project sites as required, and participate in site assignments, sometimes requiring fly-in/fly-out arrangements for periods of time.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership
  • Role model, safety culture, Collaborative leadership, and behaviors.
  • Develop and implement operations and operations readiness strategies and lead operations readiness planning for large, complex projects.
  • Oversee planning, scheduling, and resource allocation across project phases to sustaining operations.
  • Liaise with senior EPCM and commissioning stakeholders during project planning phases to ensure interfacing and alignment.

Execution Excellence
  • Lead site operations readiness integrated team, ensuring safe, quality, and timely delivery.
  • Advise, guide and support the owner team, operation and functional teams, operations readiness management team and other internal and external stakeholders with delivering safe and effective operations readiness programs.
  • Travel to remote sites when required, including fly-in/fly-out assignments.
  • Translate operations readiness execution requirements and learnings into operational support opportunities during ramp up and post project start up.

Client Engagement & Growth
  • Build strong client relationships and identify opportunities to unlock CORE services.
  • Act as a trusted advisor, elevating conversations beyond execution to strategic value.

Leadership & Workforce Development
  • Mentor and coach emerging operations readiness managers, fostering a culture of safety, professional growth and excellence.
  • Work seamlessly across borders in a flat, connected organization aligned with Hatch's values.
  • In collaboration with Hatch's Global Director of Operations Readiness, bring best practices and drive innovation in operations readiness practices and improve processes for better client outcomes.
    Qualifications


Experience:
  • 15+ years in operation excellence, operational readiness program delivery, with proven leadership with additional consideration given to past experience on mega projects (>$1B).
  • Cross-functional experience and exposure to a variety of roles and responsibilities within operations (site management, production, maintenance, health, safety, environment and community, warehouse and inventory management, etc).
  • Proven experience in building practices focused on operational improvement, operations readiness, commissioning, and ramp up.
  • Demonstrated success in client engagement and business development.
  • Deep experience in one of our three (3) main sectors:
    • Metals (from mining to minerals processing, to metallurgy (pyro & hydro)
    • Energy (Nuclear Power, Hydro Power, Thermal Power, Renewable Power, Energy Storage, Power Distribution, Oil & Gas)
    • Infrastructure (Water, Transit, Rails, Ports & Terminals, Aviation, etc.)
  • Skills:
    • Strategic planning and site execution leadership and management expertise.
    • Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
    • Ability to manage complexity and deliver under pressure.


Attributes:
  • Safety-conscious and ethical.
  • Collaborative, committed to long-term success-not transactional.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with ambition to grow into influential leadership roles.
  • Client relationship, communication and team building acumen.
  • Ability to interact and connect with all levels (top leadership and working levels) .Ability to identify business opportunities for CORE Commissioning but also for all other services of Hatch.
  • Competent technical communicator and able to adapt to the audience (empathy) facility to adapt script to the context of the audience and to simplify the messaging when required.
  • To provide governance and support on projects where CORE services are used, even when the CORE services are not provided by CORE members.


Why join us?
  • Work with great people to make a difference
  • Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions
  • Top employer


What we offer you?

  • Flexible work environment
  • Long term career development
  • Think globally, work locally


Don't meet every single requirement? You don't need to. At Hatch, we are building a diverse, inclusive workplace that fosters innovation. If you're interested in this role, we encourage you to apply even if your past experiences don't perfectly align with the skills we've listed.

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About Hatch

Hatch is a Japanese company that designs and manufactures eyewear. The company was founded in 2011 by Chris Esposito and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Hatch offers a variety of eyewear products, including sunglasses and prescription glasses, and is known for its minimalist designs. The company has collaborated with a number of other brands and designers, including Porter Yoshida & Co. and Alexander Wang. Hatch has a small but dedicated following and has been featured in a number of fashion publications.
Learn more about Hatch
Size
100 employees
Industry
Founded
2010

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