Site Director - Moses Lake (Grant Node)

The posting, as Keel Infrastructure wrote it

Careers at Keel

Keel Infrastructure is a publicly traded energy and digital infrastructure company that develops and owns data centers and power assets across North America.

At Keel, you’re not just joining a company, you’re helping build the infrastructure behind the future of compute.

Why Keel

We’re at the intersection of energy and technology, two industries transforming in real time.

The work is complex. The pace is fast. The impact is real.

You’ll be part of a team that values

• Ownership — we take responsibility and follow through
• Collaboration — we work across teams, functions, and borders
• Curiosity — we ask questions and keep learning
• Endurance — we build for the long term

What It Feels Like to Work Here

• Fast-moving, high-growth, and hands-on
• Smart, driven people solving real challenges together
• Work that directly supports AI and next-generation infrastructure
• Room to grow, stretch, and take on more

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, bonus and equity opportunities
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Retirement savings with company contribution
• Employee referral program

We are currently looking for a Site Director - Moses Lake to join our team

Role summary

The senior Keel Operations authority at the Moses Lake facility and the primary point of contact for the anchor tenant. Keel operates a governance model: the FM operations provider runs the plant day to day with its own site organization; this role governs that operator, owns the tenant relationship, and holds the change, escalation, and acceptance authorities that make an outsourced operating model accountable.

The role additionally owns the operations side of the construction-to-operations transition. Commissioning execution and delivery quality belong to the Keel delivery organization under the Director of Data Center Commissioning & Quality Assurance; this role is the operations acceptance counterpart at the formal transition-to-operations gate — delivery attests completion, operations accepts readiness. This transition scope is front-loaded into the first two quarters in seat and burns off after occupancy.

The dual permanent mandate — operator governance and tenant advocacy — is deliberate and concentrated in one accountable role. The Site Operations Coordinator (direct report) absorbs transactional volume so this role does not degrade into administration.

Key accountabilities

• Hold operations acceptance authority at the formal transition-to-operations gate, as dual signatory alongside the Director of Data Center Commissioning & Quality Assurance: delivery attestation by the delivery organization; operational readiness acceptance by this role, on documented evidence.
• Gate FM operator mobilization: CMMS population quality using turnover asset data, PM schedule seeding, shift structure validation, badge and access provisioning, and acceptance of mobilization milestones prior to steady-state operations and billing.
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FM operator site leadership (site/critical facilities manager) runs 24x7 operations, shift coverage, and staff supervision

Incident response

Incident command interface, tenant/executive communications, post-incident review acceptance

The FM operator executes emergency response per EOPs; operator site leadership manages first-line command of its crew

Maintenance program

Approval of windows, deviations, and deferrals; selective witnessing; KPI verification

The FM operator chief engineer / site team plans and executes the PM program and manages subcontracted LTSA vendors

Tenant interface

Primary tenant POC; SLA reporting delivery; QBRs; escalations

The FM operator has no direct tenant relationship except as technically directed through Keel-approved channels

Site staffing

Verification that deployed operator staffing matches contracted levels (feeds commercial true-up)

The FM operator hires, schedules, trains, and manages its site organization

Qualifications

• 10+ years critical facilities operations with at least 3 in a site leadership or owner’s representative capacity at a datacenter or equivalent critical environment.
• Direct experience receiving a facility through commissioning into operations — turnover acceptance, operator mobilization, or operational readiness — on at least one greenfield or major-expansion project.
• Demonstrated client-facing or colocation service-delivery experience; able to represent the owner credibly to a sophisticated hyperscale/AI tenant operations team.
• Working knowledge of FM outsourcing structures (MSA/SoW governance, KPI regimes, vendor management) and CMMS-based verification.
• Liquid-cooled or high-density environment experience preferred.
• Temperament: able to hold acceptance and governance positions under schedule pressure — from the delivery organization at the transition gate and from the operator in steady state — while sustaining productive working relationships with both.

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$180,000 — $220,000 USD