Turbine Operator; Abilene, TX

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powers Oracle’s global cloud services through highly available, large-scale, enterprise-grade data center environments. The Data Center Infrastructure Operations / Facilities team plays a critical role in sustaining OCI’s performance, security, and operational resilience by ensuring infrastructure systems operate reliably at scale.

You will join a technically rigorous organization with a culture grounded in operational excellence, disciplined processes, and continuous improvement, where infrastructure reliability, safety, and execution quality are foundational to delivering cloud services worldwide.

As a Turbine Operator, you will operate and maintain on-site turbine generation assets that support mission-critical power continuity for hyperscale data center operations. You will ensure safe operation, reliable performance, and regulatory compliance while partnering with engineering and vendors during maintenance and major service events.

• Operate, monitor, and adjust turbine systems to meet site power requirements, coordinating with switch gear, SCADA, UPS interfaces, and backup generation as applicable.
• Execute normal and abnormal operating procedures, including startup/shutdown, load adjustments, and system stabilization.
• Analyze condition monitoring and performance data (e.g., vibration, thermal, alarms) to identify abnormal trends, efficiency losses, and reliability risks.
• Coordinate and support preventive/corrective maintenance, outages, and overhauls with internal engineering teams and OEM vendors.
• Maintain accurate logs, shift reports, and compliance documentation aligned to EPA, OSHA, NERC, and internal EHS requirements.
• Participate in incident response and contribute technical input to corrective actions and continuous improvement.