Energy Solutions Technical Operations Lead

The Technical Operations Lead - Energy Solutions provides functional leadership for the field application, deployment, commissioning, adoption, and lifecycle support of Canrig Energy Solutions products, including PowerTAP and Illumic. The role serves as the technical-operational bridge among Product Management, Engineering, Field Service, Operations, Sales, and customers. It translates operating requirements into safe, executable deployment plans; leads field readiness, troubleshooting, testing, training, and technical handoffs; and converts field performance and customer feedback into prioritized product and process improvements. Through approximately 50% field and customer travel, the position strengthens execution ownership, product reliability, service quality, customer readiness, and scalable commercial growth. This is a senior individual-contributor role with functional leadership responsibility and no direct reports.

Required

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a closely related technical field, or equivalent directly relevant experience.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in field engineering, applications engineering, electrical or controls systems, technical service, product support, commissioning, or a closely related industrial technology role.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex field execution, technical troubleshooting, deployment planning, system testing, technical documentation, and customer communication.
- Working knowledge of industrial electrical systems, power distribution, controls, communications, technical drawings, installation, commissioning, and safe field execution.
- Ability to translate customer and operational needs into clear technical requirements, deployment plans, test criteria, training, and prioritized product or process recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to provide functional leadership across teams and field resources without relying on direct reporting authority.
- Ability and willingness to travel approximately 50%, including domestic and international customer, field, manufacturing, and business locations as required.
- Valid driver license and ability to meet customer-site access and travel requirements.

Preferred

- Experience with drilling equipment, electrification products, PowerTAP applications, power systems, rig controls, automation, or comparable industrial technologies.
- Experience supporting customer-facing technical sales, product demonstrations, technical proposals, field trials, commissioning, and post-deployment adoption.
- Experience with structured requirements, process mapping, dashboards, issue tracking, root-cause analysis, acceptance testing, or product lifecycle tools.
- Experience leading or coordinating multi-disciplinary field teams, contractors, suppliers, and customer stakeholders.
- Experience training customers and technical teams and mentoring less experienced engineers, coordinators, or field personnel.
- Professional working proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese is beneficial for international field support.

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