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🌱 RNG Plant Manager – Austin, Texas

📍 Full-Time | Renewable Natural Gas | On-Site Leadership

Our client, a leading developer and operator within the Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) sector, is seeking an experienced RNG Plant Manager to oversee day-to-day operations, maintenance, and performance optimisation of a flagship facility in the Austin region. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for ensuring safe, compliant, and reliable RNG production while managing onsite personnel and contractors.

Key Responsibilities

Operations Management

  • Oversee the daily operation of anaerobic digesters, gas upgrading systems, blowers, compressors, and associated process equipment.
  • Monitor plant KPIs, troubleshoot process variations, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Optimise gas quality, production output, and plant uptime through proactive decision-making.

Maintenance Leadership

  • Manage all preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance activities across mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation systems.
  • Develop and enforce maintenance plans, SOPs, and reliability strategies.
  • Coordinate with OEMs, third-party service providers, and internal technical teams.

Safety & Compliance

  • Ensure strict adherence to OSHA, environmental, and quality regulations.
  • Lead safety meetings, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
  • Maintain accurate operational logs, compliance documentation, and reporting.

Team Leadership

  • Supervise plant operators, technicians, and contractors.
  • Provide training, coaching, and performance oversight for all site personnel.
  • Foster a culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence.

Technical & Financial Oversight

  • Track operational budgets, inventory, and consumables.
  • Review system performance data and provide recurring reports to senior leadership.
  • Support capital improvement projects, upgrades, and expansion initiatives.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in plant operations within RNG, biogas, wastewater, landfill gas, chemical processing, or similar industrial environments.
  • Strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and process systems (compressors, blowers, pumps, control systems, HMI/SCADA).
  • Demonstrated experience leading teams in a 24/7 plant environment.
  • Solid understanding of environmental compliance and safety regulations.
  • Ability to interpret P&IDs, operating manuals, performance data, and technical documentation.

Preferred Experience

  • Previous experience managing RNG or biogas facilities.
  • Familiarity with membrane or PSA upgrading systems.
  • Experience working with utility interconnections and gas quality specifications.
  • CMMS experience for maintenance planning and reporting.