Senior Project Asset Manager - Mainspring Energy, Inc.

Company Overview

Mainspring Energy is revolutionizing power generation with the world’s most flexible and adaptable onsite power generator, the Mainspring Linear Generator. Commercial, industrial, and utility leaders are choosing Mainspring over traditional options like engines, turbines, and fuel cells to quickly and reliably deliver local power for EV charging, commercial facilities, data centers, and grid-scale operations. The Mainspring Linear Generator is fuel flexible, ramps up and down to meet demand, and utilizes a flameless technology with near-zero NOx emissions.

Backed by top-tier investors such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, American Electric Power, and Lightrock, Mainspring designs, manufactures and delivers its products to customers across the U.S. today, and we’re quickly scaling for international expansion.

Inspired by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid, Mainspring is rapidly expanding within the $816B global electricity equipment market, and we’re hiring the best talent to meet growing customer demand around the globe. We welcome a broad range of backgrounds, experiences, and talents to bring fresh perspectives and ongoing innovation to our customers.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.

• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.

• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Mainspring is based in Menlo Park and has partnered with top-tier investors and utilities such as Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, NextEra, and American Electric Power. More information can be found at www.mainspringenergy.com.

Responsibilities

A key enabler of Mainspring’s mission is the ability of its team to deliver solutions based on our linear generator technology that solve customer problems in the cross-section of resiliency and clean power generation. This includes site due diligence, design engineering, permitting, construction operations, and commissioning.

A Senior Asset Manager Will:

• Be responsible for overseeing the inspection, maintenance, reliability, and functional operation of the Balance of Plant systems for power generation facilities. This role ensures that the BoP systems such as fuel delivery, power distribution and communication networks are optimally maintained, compliant with safety and regulatory standards, and capable of supporting reliable power generation.

• Identify, manage and coordinate contractors for operational activities, including quality inspections, troubleshooting, preventative maintenance, etc.

• Develop and enforce quality acceptance criteria, ensuring compliance with engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) guidelines.

• Identify site equipment, materials, and consumable, to stock and ensure that the sites have minimal downtime for repairs / preventative maintenance.

• Facilitate coordination with Field Operations and Service teams to support troubleshooting and operational issues on sites

• Work with contractors and manage warranty claims and on site corrective work.

• Manage retrofit projects by bidding, contracting and overseeing multiple projects simultaneously.

• Develop and implement regular preventive maintenance plans and inspections, including corrosion assessments, grounding tests, transformer inspections, and gas fuel systems, electrical protection, calibrations, including transformer maintenance, electrical testing, metering checks, and protection relay functional testing.

• Maintain site records and databases to document inspection results, maintenance schedules, and all operational changes or updates.

• Collaborate with external contractors, site owners, and internal teams to resolve site-specific issues, manage unforeseen outages, and ensure consistent operational quality.

• Coordinate with other teams to ensure the necessary documentation is in place to naturally transitions projects to operational assets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in project management or site operations, specifically within power generation, distributed energy resources, or utility-scale facilities.

• Demonstrated expertise in Power Generators operation and maintenance or similar systems, with experience across pre- and post-COD phases.

• Strong background in preventative maintenance planning and hands-on experience in diagnostics and troubleshooting electrical systems, communication systems, instrumentation, and relay control systems.

• Proficiency in project and asset management software and ability to use digital tools for inspection scheduling, documentation, and reporting.

• Knowledge of electrical testing protocols (e.g., Megger testing, torque inspections) and safety compliance standards, with experience coordinating testing and calibration of transformers, relays and process instrumentation .

• Excellent organizational and communication skills, able to coordinate complex workflows, communicate effectively with contractors and team members, and document key project activities.

• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing site challenges and risks.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, project management, or a related field preferred; additional certifications in O&M, NETA, or relevant industry standards a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and ensure safe, effective LGen and Balance of Plant management in a dynamic, high-output environment.

The Bay Area salary for this role is $109k-$128k base + bonus + pre-IPO stock options + benefits. This position is remote. The salary will be adjusted to reflect local market conditions based on employee location as well as the experience of the employee.

Does your experience not meet all of our posted requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to positions unless they meet every listed requirement. At Mainspring, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment, so if you want to help us transition the world to clean and affordable electricity, and don’t meet all posted requirements for a particular role, we’d still love to hear from you. Mainspring can sometimes be flexible enough to shift responsibilities for the right person, or otherwise identify open or upcoming roles that may better fit your professional background.

In more traditional words, Mainspring Energy, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

This compensation and benefits information is based on Mainspring Energy's estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.