Operations Analyst, Power Generation - Memphis

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create and integrate AI tools to support analytics and execution planning. Create AI agents that can aid in oversight and quickly flag the onset of an issue or outage
• Develop visual standards for work boards, JIRA queuing, Power BI dashboards, and plant operations workflow
• Define and develop plant-level metrics and dashboards that quantify operational health and influence change, including gas vs MW, hall demand vs generation, maintenance forecast, and air permit hours
• Support the site director with data insights for plant operations, outage planning, and continuous improvement
• Conduct in-depth analyses through SQL queries and other data analysis methods to dive into problems and identify trends for decision making, following the rules of clear visual indicators and linear flow
• Create reports, tools, and standardized metrics for operational measurements and improvements
• Integrate with operations, maintenance, engineering, and environmental teams to understand current workflows and identify systematic gaps
• Support department continuous improvement projects such as new process rollouts and standardization
• Develop automation that mitigates operational risk or creates efficiencies within the power plant
• Conduct operations audits that streamline plant operations, maintenance, and reliability work
• Maintenance program enhancement – increase attention on poor-health equipment and descope unnecessary work
• Implement operations or maintenance tools (software or hardware) to reduce wasted effort by engineers, operators, and technicians
• Analyze site services and plant support contracts such as utilities, waste, and related services, and roadmap improvements to ensure smart spending
• Build communication tools and reports targeted at the site director and plant leadership to improve decision-making and customer service to downstream loads
• Standardize material, spare parts, and procurement processes to reduce outage and project lead times
• Drive alignment with power generation and operations teams at other SpaceX sites to reduce duplicated work 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, supply chain, management information systems, computer science, or economics
• 2+ years of experience in an operations, data analytics, consulting, production coordination, scheduling, or planning role 

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 4+ years of professional experience
• Process focused experience including project management, capacity modeling, process mapping, and layouts
• Experience with operations, maintenance, and capacity planning (including CMMS, MRP, or ERP systems)
• Experience in using Excel, VBA, SQL, or Python/R for analysis or modeling dynamic systems
• Experience with creating and managing dashboards using data visualization tools using Power BI
• Familiarity with power plant or industrial operations metrics such as heat rate / gas vs MW, generation vs demand, maintenance forecasting, and environmental or air-permit tracking
• Experience with lean, six sigma, and related operations principles
• Ability to work well across teams and skill sets to find the simplest and best solution
• Experience as a contributor to multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams