Biomass Utilization Operations Manager
Remote
Full Time
Operations
Experienced
The Role: We are looking for an experienced Operations professional to join our Biomass Team at Kodama. As a key member of the Biomass Team, you will play a vital role in advancing a core tenant of our mission – utilizing biomass to mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildfires. The Biomass team is responsible for developing and executing Kodama’s Carbon Vaults.
Ideal candidates have at least 5 years of experience in industrial operations roles in land-based or waste-disposal industries (e.g. forestry, mining, landfills, etc.) and have managed an infrastructure project end-to-end. As an early member of Kodama's Biomass Team, you will have significant responsibility and ownership.
What You Will Do:
Basic Qualifications:
Bonus Point Qualifications:
Compensation is dependent upon experience.
Perks:
Ideal candidates have at least 5 years of experience in industrial operations roles in land-based or waste-disposal industries (e.g. forestry, mining, landfills, etc.) and have managed an infrastructure project end-to-end. As an early member of Kodama's Biomass Team, you will have significant responsibility and ownership.
What You Will Do:
- Project Management – Responsible for our first Carbon Vault project execution, including:
- Writing and submitting permit documents and modifications
- Coordination with regulators
- Project timeline management
- End-to-end cost management
- Site health, safety, and environment plan creation and implementation
- Vendor Management – developing contracts, overseeing the vendor and directing contract execution
- Working with feedstock processing, transport, and scaling contractors
- Developing feedstock storage plans
- Coordinating with excavation, construction, and drilling contractors
- Coordinating monitoring system installation and maintenance (gas flux monitoring, soil sampling)
- Finances and budgeting – Communicating with Business Development team to refine pro forma business models for Kodama’s biomass business
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience as an operations professional
- Excellent communicator
- Entrepreneurial experience, with demonstrated ability to identify and follow critical-path roles and solve open-ended problems efficiently
- Health and safety-focused, with basic experience creating and implementing health and safety plans, including standard operating procedures, site controls, and risk management
- Have a BS or BA, candidates with mixed background in business, engineering, and/or science will be more strongly considered
- Willingness to travel up to 30% for extended field deployments to the Eastern Sierra, near the towns of Benton, Bishop and Mammoth Lakes, CA
- At times, this may be a physically demanding role requiring:
- Spending several hours at a time walking around outdoors, possibly in inclement weather
- Ability to lift 50 lbs
- Experience working with MS Office Suite and project management tools (e.g. Asana, Notion, etc.)
Bonus Point Qualifications:
- Experience working in a land-based industry (e.g. forestry, mining, etc.) with boots-on-the-ground experience
- Experience in construction management or similar
- OSHA or MSHA certifications
- Experience working in carbon dioxide removal markets
- Experience working with the US Forest Service or environmental stewardship nonprofits contracted with the USFS
- Systems-thinker, able to understand and interpret the assumptions, inputs, and outputs of environmental models and their implications for our business
- MS in engineering or science (physics, chemistry, geology, etc.) or MBA
Compensation is dependent upon experience.
Perks:
- Generous stock options. We're an early-stage company and we want you to benefit from being an early contributor.
- Flexible time off. Work hard and take time off when you need it.
- Stay healthy. Full health insurance benefits for you and your family.
- Learn on the job. Annual conference budget including airfare and accommodations.
- Spend time in nature. In this role, you'll spend time on treasured public lands and Kodama's pilot site in the beautiful Eastern Sierra.
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