Director, Facility and OT Security

IREN•,

3d•Remote

About The Position

IREN is seeking a Director to build and run the operating organization for its power and thermal test asset in Childress, Texas. The role is responsible for running the asset as a facility, allocating laboratory time against the gate calendar, maintaining calibration and measurement traceability, and ensuring safe, reproducible testing. The position manages a resident team of nine and owns the laboratory’s safety case, configuration control, capability planning, and capital cases for expanding the laboratory’s testing capabilities. It also runs security validation of the laboratory configuration before each energized campaign with the Director, Facility and OT Security. The posting’s introductory role description calls the position “Director, Laboratory and Test Operations,” while the job heading identifies it as “Director, Facility and OT Security.”

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related technical field, or equivalent professional experience; four years of directly relevant experience substitutes for the degree.
Ten or more years of experience in test laboratory, commissioning, or high-power test operations, including three or more years managing a laboratory crew and its calibration, safety, and scheduling regime.
Direct experience managing a test laboratory, engineering test facility, or commissioning organization, with ownership of the schedule, safety case, and people.
Experience with energized high-power or high-energy testing, including authority to stop a test and at least one occasion of exercising that authority.
Calibration and measurement traceability experience sufficient to defend reported figures.
Experience managing trades and technicians as well as engineers, including qualification records and shift coverage.
Experience with test-article configuration control, including an instance where an inadequate record prevented a result from being reproduced.
NFPA 70E qualified-person training is required before supervising energized work and must be completed in the first 90 days.
Must be able to reliably commute to the work site daily or plan to relocate before starting.
Must provide own steel-toed work boots; other PPE will be supplied.
Pre-employment screening, including background check and substance testing, may be required according to company policies.

Nice To Haves

ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory management or assessor experience.
Accredited laboratory experience.
Power electronics, battery, or thermal testing experience.

Responsibilities

Operate the asset as a facility, managing the campaign schedule, plant configuration, availability, and the state of the laboratory between campaigns.
Allocate asset time across the Director groups, peer functions, and module program against the gate calendar.
Own the calibration regime for every instrument that produces reportable data, including intervals, standards, and records.
Own the laboratory safety case for energized high-power work, pressurized liquid systems, and stored energy; qualify the people performing this work and exercise authority to stop a test.
Own configuration control of every test article so results can be reproduced from records of what was built and changed.
Hire, develop, and qualify the nine-person laboratory team across test engineering, modeling and simulation, instrumentation, mechanical trades, safety, data, laboratory operations, and facility maintenance.
Own facility capability planning, including identifying what the asset can and cannot test and developing capital cases to extend its capabilities.
Run security validation of the laboratory configuration before each energized campaign with the Director, Facility and OT Security.

Benefits

100% company-paid health insurance premiums for employees, including medical, dental, and vision; 75% company-paid dependent coverage.
Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage.
Health Savings Accounts when combined with the High-Deductible Health Plan.
Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources.
401(k) retirement plan with company match.
Paid professional development and access to financial planning and legal services.
Paid Time Off and paid holidays.
Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role-related training.
Company events and team-building activities.
Relocation and living-out allowance, as applicable and based on successful candidate circumstances.