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Lancium · 5 hours ago

Director of Substation EPC Delivery (Multi-Project Portfolio)

Abilene, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

15+ years exp

Lancium builds gigawatt-scale campuses for AI data centers, developing and orchestrating all power infrastructure. The Project Director will oversee the simultaneous delivery of complex electrical infrastructure projects, managing EPC contractors and ensuring compliance with safety, quality, budget, and schedule objectives.

EnergyInformation TechnologyRenewable EnergySolar

Responsibilities

Single-Site Ownership: Serve as the primary point of contact for internal/external stakeholders, contractors, subcontractors, and site trades. Lead scope, schedule, budget, risk, and change control across multiple projects, ensuring integration into main grid-connected substations and utilities for site clients. World class electrical infrastructure construction is the principal stream of work

Team Leadership: Manage high-performing Project teams across Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Power, SCADA, IT, Technology, Commercial, and Site Operations. Foster a collaborative culture that motivates team members to excel

EPC Oversight: Direct and monitor tier-1 EPC/EPCM contractors delivering HV AIS substations and 3rd-party power integration systems. Manage performance guarantees, liquidated damages, change orders, and claims

Controls for Volatile Loads: Ensure plant controllers, EMS, and SCADA systems meet requirements for fast ramp buffering, export/import modes, and price/dispatch signals. Collaborate with the Technical Development team during development, testing, and large-scale deployment

Engineering Oversight: Supervise EPC and Owner’s Engineering in protection & controls, metering, communications/NETWORKING, grounding, and relay settings. Ensure compliance with utility/ISO/client interconnection standards and power-quality metrics

Procurement Management: Orchestrate procurement of long-lead items including transformers, breakers, reactors, capacitors, HV cables, transmission equipment, and 3rd-party BESS/Nat-Gas hardware. Track expediting, FATs, and logistics

Construction Management: Enforce EPC safety standards (LOTO, lift plans, energized work), QA/QC processes, RFI/submittal discipline, and field productivity. Resolve roadblocks and optimize work sequencing

Testing & Commissioning: Oversee pre-energization checkouts, relay/SCADA testing, staged energization, islanding/black-start trials, and microgrid performance validation

Stakeholder & Regulatory Management: Coordinate with utilities, ISOs, AHJs, and data center counterparts. Ensure full lifecycle compliance with Cyber and physical security requirements, site permits and environmental commitments

Reporting & Controls: Maintain executive dashboards, track earned progress against financial milestones, and manage documentation and decision logs

Qualification

Electrical EngineeringUtility-scale Power OperationsEPC OversightPMP CertificationSCADA SystemsVendor ManagementStakeholder CommunicationRoot Cause AnalysisTeam Leadership

Required

Four (4) year degree in Electrical or Power Engineering, with extensive practical work experience in high 100's MW electrical and electro-mechanical applications, specifically with extensive electrical construction experience, advanced degree, and Electrical PE qualification (or similar experience)

15–20+ years in utility-scale power operations (HV substations, microgrids, storage, generation) with 5+ years leading 24/7 operations or a control room and experience dealing with emergencies

Demonstrated success in simultaneous execution of multiple streams of work

Able to work with confidential information in a professional manner

Abilities as a demonstrated team builder for not only safety and security culture, but also morale at all levels of the execution team

Demonstrated success meeting strict SLAs for industrial or data-center customers, by experience with Hands-on with protection & controls, EMS/SCADA, plant controllers, and PQ troubleshooting, with expert 3rd party assistance

Strong vendor/OEM management and contract performance enforcement (LTSA, KPIs, LDs)

Excellent incident command, Root Cause Analysis, and stakeholder communication skills

Preferred

PMP Certification preferred

Benefits

Employer-subsidized health, dental, and vision benefits

$50,000 of basic term life insurance coverage paid for by Lancium, as well as 100% of short-term disability premiums. Additionally, we provide options for additional life insurance coverage for employees, their spouses, and children. Employees also have the option to enroll in long-term disability coverage (LTD) at their own expense.

Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Limited Purpose Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Savings Accounts (with employer contribution; $400 employee only coverage, $700 for all other tiers of enrollment in our HDHP).

Flexible (Unlimited) Time Off

Paid parental leave

11 paid holidays

Fidelity safe-harbor 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%

Company

Lancium

Lancium is an energy technology and infrastructure company uniquely positioned to catalyze and enable the AI data center demand mega-trend, with the integration and orchestration of grid interconnects and behind the meter generation and storage resources, to ensure campuses are assets to the grid.

Founded in 2017

Houston, Texas, USA

51-200 employees