Senior Field Operations Specialist

About Kyoto

Kyoto Group develops thermal energy storage solutions that enable industry to replace fossil fuels with renewable electricity for heat production. Industrial heat represents nearly 50% of global energy consumption, making it one of the most critical frontiers in the energy transition. Kyoto’s Heatcube thermal battery stores renewable electricity as heat and delivers it when needed, allowing industries to fully leverage variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.

**Kyoto’s mission:**Empower industries with renewable thermal energy.

Kyoto's vision: A world powered by Nature.

About the role

As a Senior Field Operations Specialist, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and optimized operation of Kyoto Group’s Heatcube installations across multiple customer sites. Acting as the operational link between customers, service partners, and internal teams, you will drive asset performance, operational excellence, and safety while supporting the commissioning and scale-up of new installations. This is a hands-on, international role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical expertise, problem-solving, and field leadership.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of Heatcube installations, promoting a proactive safety culture and adherence to Kyoto's HSE standards, regulatory requirements, and contractual commitments.
• Monitor and optimize system performance through remote and on-site operational support, leveraging SCADA systems, data analysis, and technical expertise to maximize uptime, efficiency, and reliability.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and root cause analysis across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and process systems, implementing corrective and preventive actions to improve asset performance.
• Coordinate field operations, maintenance activities, inspections, and emergency response efforts in collaboration with customers, contractors, and service partners to ensure effective and timely issue resolution.
• Act as Kyoto's technical representative on-site, providing training, mentoring, and operational guidance while developing and maintaining operating procedures, maintenance instructions, and best practices.
• Support the commissioning, start-up, and operational handover of new Heatcube installations, ensuring a smooth transition to safe, stable, and optimized operation.

Required skills & experiences

• Technical education or equivalent experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Process, Marine, Energy Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Several years of hands-on experience operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting industrial systems within sectors such as thermal energy, power generation, offshore, marine, or process industries.
• Strong technical understanding of industrial equipment and processes, with the ability to diagnose and resolve operational issues across mechanical, electrical, and control systems.
• Experience working with SCADA, DCS, or similar monitoring and control systems to support safe and efficient operations.
• Proven track record in preventive maintenance, reliability improvement, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Solid understanding of industrial safety, HSE requirements, and risk management practices.
• Experience leading, training, or supporting operators, technicians, contractors, or service partners in the field.
• Familiarity with thermal energy storage, molten salt systems, or related industrial heat technologies is an advantage.
• Fluent in English and comfortable working in an international environment.

Who are you?

• Comfortable with regular international travel and extended periods on-site when required.
• Strong situational awareness and the ability to make sound decisions under operational pressure.
• Self-driven and accountable, with a hands-on approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.
• Motivated by the opportunity to accelerate industrial decarbonization and contribute to the energy transition.

About the team

Our mission is ambitious and achieving it depends on the people behind it. We foster an environment where collaboration, trust, and continuous learning enable individuals and teams to perform at their best. By empowering our employees to take initiative and contribute their unique strengths, we create the foundation for both personal growth and collective success.

What we offer

• A meaningful role in accelerating the energy transition and industrial decarbonization.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Pension, medical, travel, and life insurance.
• A flexible and supportive working environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth, development, and international exposure.
• A collaborative, international team united by a shared purpose.

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