Senior Manager, Operational Oversight and Governance - Data Center Power (on-site Nashville, TN)
Oracle · Nashville, United States · 5d ago
>>This position will be full-time on-site at Oracle's offices located in Nashville, TN. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle’s relocation policies. Candidates should expect a minimum of 50% travel, with additional travel as business needs require.<<
Oracle is seeking a Senior Manager, Operational Oversight and Governance – Power to lead the centralized operational governance function within the power operations organization. This is an M3-level leadership role responsible for building, implementing, and sustaining the framework that supports operational reliability, consistency, compliance, and continuous improvement across the fleet.
The Senior Manager will lead a team focused on operational oversight activities including centralized preventive maintenance planning and scheduling, SharePoint and document management, corrective action management, safety and environmental governance, procedures management, project coordination, KPI reporting, continuous improvement, and CMMS implementation. This role will serve as a key partner to operations, engineering, maintenance, safety, environmental, and leadership teams to ensure disciplined execution and strong operational control.
The ideal candidate brings deep utility industry experience, strong operational judgment, and the ability to create scalable systems and governance processes that drive reliability and performance across a complex fleet consisting of both power generation and grid-tied sites.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Oversight & Governance
Lead the operational oversight and governance team for the power operations organization.
Establish and maintain governance frameworks, processes, and controls that support operational reliability and disciplined execution.
Ensure consistency across the fleet in the application of operational standards, procedures, and documentation practices.
Serve as a central point of accountability for operational governance activities across the fleet.
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
Oversee centralized preventive maintenance planning and scheduling processes.
Ensure maintenance activities are coordinated effectively to support safe, reliable, and efficient operations.
Partner with site teams and operations leadership to prioritize work, manage schedules, and reduce operational disruption.
Promote best practices in planning quality, scheduling discipline, and work management across the fleet.
Corrective Action, Safety & Environmental Programs
Lead governance of the corrective action process to ensure issues are identified, documented, tracked, addressed, and closed in a timely and effective manner.
Support and reinforce safety and environmental compliance programs across the fleet.
Ensure follow-through on action items, lessons learned, and operational improvements resulting from events, audits, assessments, or reviews.
Drive accountability and visibility for recurring issues, trends, and systemic risks.
Procedures, Documentation & SharePoint Management
Oversee procedures governance, including development, review, revision, approval, and document control.
Manage SharePoint content architecture and standards to ensure information is accurate, accessible, controlled, and well-organized.
Support document control processes that enable consistent access to current procedures, standards, and operational references.
Ensure governance materials are maintained in a manner that supports audit readiness and operational effectiveness.
KPI Reporting, Analytics & Continuous Improvement
Define, track, and report key performance indicators related to operations, reliability, maintenance, compliance, safety, and execution.
Develop reporting structures that provide leadership with clear visibility into fleet performance, trends, risks, and performance gaps.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen processes, reduce variability, and improve operating performance.
Use data, trends, operating experience, and stakeholder feedback to identify opportunities for standardization and improvement across the fleet.
Establish mechanisms for sharing lessons learned and operating experience between sites.
CMMS Implementation & Work Management
Lead and support implementation and adoption of the CMMS platform across the fleet.
Partner with operational and maintenance leaders to ensure the CMMS is used effectively to support planning, scheduling, work execution, equipment history, reporting, and reliability goals.
Help define process standards, data quality expectations, equipment hierarchies, and adoption practices related to CMMS usage.
Drive consistency in work management practices across sites.
Serve as a change leader in strengthening work management discipline and system utilization.
Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Lead, develop, and mentor a team of operational oversight and governance professionals.
Collaborate closely with operations, maintenance, engineering, safety, environmental, project management, data center operations, and senior leadership stakeholders.
Build trusted partnerships across the organization to improve execution, accountability, and reliability.
Establish clear ownership, expectations, and accountability for centralized governance programs.
Communicate clearly with leadership on fleet performance, priorities, risks, trends, progress, and results.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
10+ years of experience in the utility industry in an operational and/or closely related role.
Demonstrated experience in operational governance, maintenance planning, work management, compliance, reliability, or similar utility functions.
Experience leading teams and cross-functional initiatives in complex operational environments.
Strong understanding of utility operations, maintenance, safety, environmental, and reliability principles.
Demonstrated ability to establish programs, processes, standards, and governance structures across multiple operating locations.
Proven ability to drive accountability and continuous improvement while working effectively with site-based operating teams.
Strong leadership, communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to travel approximately 50% to support fleet locations.
Preferred
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, business, or a related technical field.
Experience supporting a fleet consisting of multiple power-supply configurations, including utility/grid-connected sites and behind-the-meter generation.
Experience with centralized maintenance planning and scheduling, corrective action programs, procedures governance, KPI development, and continuous improvement.
Experience implementing or optimizing a CMMS and associated work management processes.
Familiarity with utility operational risk management, audit readiness, safety and environmental programs, and document control.
Experience establishing standardized operating practices across geographically distributed facilities.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is an experienced utility operations leader who understands how to build the systems, standards, processes, and accountability necessary to achieve consistent operational excellence across a diverse fleet.
They understand that individual sites may have different power-supply configurations, operating requirements, and risks, while still requiring a common framework for reliability, maintenance, safety, environmental performance, procedures, corrective actions, work management, and performance reporting.
This leader will balance standardization with the operational realities of individual sites. They will create visibility into fleet performance, identify systemic risks and trends, establish clear expectations, and ensure lessons learned at one location are incorporated across the broader fleet.
Most importantly, this individual will build and maintain the operational reliability framework that enables the fleet to operate safely, consistently, and reliably while supporting the critical power requirements of Oracle’s data center operations.
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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
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