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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).\nWe 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.\nWhat 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.\nJoin 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.\nThe Job\nThe Operations Readiness Manager owns the national framework used to prepare new facilities, expansions, and major infrastructure projects for safe and reliable operation.\nThe 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.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop and maintain national operational-readiness standards, acceptance gates, responsibility matrices, checklists, evidence requirements, policies, and reporting frameworks. \nEstablish readiness criteria for Early Customer Access, Progressive Capacity Release, production readiness, conditional turnover, and final acceptance. \nDefine national requirements for staffing, qualifications, training, procedures, preventive maintenance, work management, vendor support, spare parts, tools, consumables, and emergency response. \nGovern readiness deviations by documenting risks, interim controls, ownership, closure requirements, and approval workflows. \nIncorporate lessons learned, early-life performance data, operational incidents, and identified gaps to continuously improve readiness standards. \nEngage during design and construction to identify operational, maintainability, staffing, safety, access, service-support, and turnover requirements before they impact delivery schedules. \nMaintain integrated readiness plans aligned with design, commissioning, customer-access, capacity-release, and turnover milestones. \nAssess site organization, staffing models, shift coverage, onboarding, escalation paths, and competency requirements against systems entering service. \nCoordinate development and review of operating procedures, maintenance plans, permits, contracts, vendor support agreements, spares strategies, tools, and emergency-response resources. \nLead readiness reviews, system demonstrations, operating-scenario walkthroughs, tabletop exercises, and drills to validate operational preparedness. \nVerify 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. \nTrack readiness gaps through closure, escalating issues that may impact safety, reliability, schedules, or customer commitments. \nCoordinate with national technical leads and site commissioning teams to verify testing, training, documentation, staffing, and support requirements are met at each release gate. \nProvide recommendations for release, conditional release, or hold status based on operational readiness, risk, and supporting evidence. \nSupport early-life operations, coordinate issue escalation and warranty response, and transition outstanding actions into normal operational governance. \nMaintain national dashboards and executive reporting on readiness progress, risks, exceptions, and turnover status. \nDefine Operations Engineering readiness requirements, consolidate readiness evidence and risk assessments, and recommend release decisions. \nFoster open, respectful, and professional communication directly within the team, with co-workers/ teammates, and leaders across the organization. \nPerforms other duties as assigned. \nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction Management, Operations, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. \nSeven 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. \nDemonstrated experience developing and executing operational-readiness plans, acceptance gates, phased turnover, customer access, or production-transition programs. \nWorking knowledge of mission-critical electrical, mechanical, controls, fire and life-safety, security, and monitoring systems. \nExperience with operating procedures, training programs, preventive maintenance, CMMS or work-management systems, spares, vendor support, and emergency response. \nAbility to evaluate incomplete work, interim controls, and operational risk and present clear recommendations to project, operations, customer, and executive stakeholders. \nPreferred\nExperience transitioning high-density or liquid-cooled data centers or similarly complex facilities into production. \nCredential such as BCxP, CCP, CxA, PMP, CFM, or equivalent. \nExperience with MCIM, CMMS, document-control, commissioning-management, dashboard, and asset-data platforms. \nMulti-site program experience involving live-site expansion, phased capacity acceptance, or customer delivery. \nReports To \nDirector, Engineering & Commissioning\nLocation\nRemote. 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