Operations Readiness Manager

Who We Are 

Core Scientific is a leading provider of infrastructure for high-performance compute in North America. Our mission is to accelerate digital innovation by scaling high-value compute rapidly, efficiently, and responsibly. We transform energy into high-value compute with unmatched efficiency at scale. Core Scientific is a publicly trade company (NASDAQ: CORZ). 

We power AI, HPC, and other next-generation data center workloads demanding exceptional computing power, in addition to our digital asset mining operations. Our footprint consists of 11 data center campuses across seven states, housing advanced infrastructure for our customers. 

What sets us apart? We have an entrepreneurial culture, a "can-do" and collaborative attitude, and we own and control our infrastructure. These strategic advantages enable us to maintain operational excellence, increase efficiency, and rapidly deploy cutting-edge innovations developed by our team of experts. 

Join us and accelerate your career alongside our groundbreaking journey. We seek smart, creative, and collaborative professionals who thrive in a fast-paced, result-driven environment. Ready to be part of something exceptional? Apply today and make an impact at Core Scientific.

The Job 

The Operations Readiness Manager owns the national framework used to prepare new facilities, expansions, and major infrastructure projects for safe and reliable operation. 

The role integrates technical completion with the staffing, training, procedures, maintenance programs, operational systems, contracts, spare parts, documentation, and support required for Operations Engineering and Site Operations to accept each release boundary. The position partners with Site Development and the national discipline team while maintaining independent visibility of readiness risks and incomplete prerequisites. 

Responsibilities  

• Develop and maintain national operational-readiness standards, acceptance gates, responsibility matrices, checklists, evidence requirements, policies, and reporting frameworks. 

• Establish readiness criteria for Early Customer Access, Progressive Capacity Release, production readiness, conditional turnover, and final acceptance. 

• Define national requirements for staffing, qualifications, training, procedures, preventive maintenance, work management, vendor support, spare parts, tools, consumables, and emergency response. 

• Govern readiness deviations by documenting risks, interim controls, ownership, closure requirements, and approval workflows. 

• Incorporate lessons learned, early-life performance data, operational incidents, and identified gaps to continuously improve readiness standards. 

• Engage during design and construction to identify operational, maintainability, staffing, safety, access, service-support, and turnover requirements before they impact delivery schedules. 

• Maintain integrated readiness plans aligned with design, commissioning, customer-access, capacity-release, and turnover milestones. 

• Assess site organization, staffing models, shift coverage, onboarding, escalation paths, and competency requirements against systems entering service. 

• Coordinate development and review of operating procedures, maintenance plans, permits, contracts, vendor support agreements, spares strategies, tools, and emergency-response resources. 

• Lead readiness reviews, system demonstrations, operating-scenario walkthroughs, tabletop exercises, and drills to validate operational preparedness. 

• Verify that CMMS data, asset hierarchies, preventive-maintenance programs, work-order workflows, warranties, vendor contacts, monitoring access, alarm routing, and reporting processes are established before acceptance. 

• Track readiness gaps through closure, escalating issues that may impact safety, reliability, schedules, or customer commitments. 

• Coordinate with national technical leads and site commissioning teams to verify testing, training, documentation, staffing, and support requirements are met at each release gate. 

• Provide recommendations for release, conditional release, or hold status based on operational readiness, risk, and supporting evidence. 

• Support early-life operations, coordinate issue escalation and warranty response, and transition outstanding actions into normal operational governance. 

• Maintain national dashboards and executive reporting on readiness progress, risks, exceptions, and turnover status. 

• Define Operations Engineering readiness requirements, consolidate readiness evidence and risk assessments, and recommend release decisions. 

• Foster open, respectful, and professional communication directly within the team, with co-workers/ teammates, and leaders across the organization. 

• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications 

Required 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction Management, Operations, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. 

• Seven or more years of progressive critical-facility operations, commissioning, construction, startup, or transition experience, including at least five years supporting data centers or other mission-critical facilities. 

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing operational-readiness plans, acceptance gates, phased turnover, customer access, or production-transition programs. 

• Working knowledge of mission-critical electrical, mechanical, controls, fire and life-safety, security, and monitoring systems. 

• Experience with operating procedures, training programs, preventive maintenance, CMMS or work-management systems, spares, vendor support, and emergency response. 

• Ability to evaluate incomplete work, interim controls, and operational risk and present clear recommendations to project, operations, customer, and executive stakeholders. 

Preferred 

• Experience transitioning high-density or liquid-cooled data centers or similarly complex facilities into production. 

• Credential such as BCxP, CCP, CxA, PMP, CFM, or equivalent. 

• Experience with MCIM, CMMS, document-control, commissioning-management, dashboard, and asset-data platforms. 

• Multi-site program experience involving live-site expansion, phased capacity acceptance, or customer delivery. 

Reports To  
Director, Engineering & Commissioning 

Location  

Remote. To be considered for this role, you must reside near the following locations: Miami, FL, Austin, TX, Pecos, TX, Denton, TX, Hunt, TX,  Muskogee, OK, Marble, NC, Dalton, GA or Auburn, AL   

Travel   

Frequent travel may be required as needed. (Up to 50% of time worked.) 

Work Environment  

This job is operated in professional office, warehouse, and data center environments. It routinely uses standard office equipment, including laptop computers, photocopiers, smartphones, and scissor lifts. 

Physical Demands   

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, use hands, and lift up to 50 pounds.    

Position Type/ Expected Hours of Work   

This is a full-time, onsite position. General hours and days of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some nights and weekends may be required.  

Supervisory Experience (Yes or No)  

No