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Head of Service

Madrid, Spain

Rondo is accelerating industry’s transition to lower-cost, zero-carbon heat and power. 

Our Rondo Heat Batteries turn low-cost renewable electricity into continuous, high-temperature heat and power, enabling industrial facilities to replace fossil-fired boilers without costly process changes. The result is lower-cost, zero-carbon industrial energy delivered safely, reliably, and at 98% efficiency. 

Rondo is commercially deployed and rapidly scaling, today. Backed by world-class industrial leaders and investors — including Breakthrough Energy, Energy Impact Partners, Rio Tinto, Aramco, SABIC, SCG, TITAN, Microsoft, H&M, and John Doerr — Rondo is building the next generation of industrial energy infrastructure at global scale.

We are looking for an experienced, customer-centric Head of Service to join our team and help repower industrial heat at scale. This role will have a significant impact in ensuring customer satisfaction in the commissioning and operations of the Rondo Heat Batteries supplied to our industrial clients, as well as identifying opportunities for product improvement and potential new market niches.

 

What You Will Do (key responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to):

  • Asset performance
    • Ensure assets meet availability reliability, and contractual guarantees.
    • Drive continuous improvement in uptime and cost efficiency across deployed assets.
    • Document lessons learned and provide input into product design, commercial structuring and project delivery.
  • Commissioning & handover
    • Establish and own commissioning strategy, standards, and acceptance criteria in close coordination with the product design team.
    • Lead the transition from project delivery into operations, ensuring clean technical and commercial handover.
    • Ensure operational readiness prior to asset handover, including procedures, tooling, spares, and documentation.
  • Operations & maintenance
    • Define and scale Rondo’s operations and maintenance model and LTSA offering - including different levels of services and guarantees -.
    • Formulate, implement and oversee predictive, preventive and corrective maintenance strategies, reliability programs, and asset health monitoring.
    • Specify in-house vs partner-based execution depending on project structure and geography.
  • Organizational leadership & Strategy
    • Build and lead a multi-disciplinary services organization, including Commissioning and Maintenance.
    • Develop operational manuals, processes, and performance metrics.
    • Define Rondo’s long-term asset operations strategy.
    • Standardize processes, tooling, and data systems to enable repeatable, high-quality operations.
  • Commercial & customer accountability
    • Own elements of LTSAs, including availability guarantees, and service obligations.
    • Act as senior operational interface with all project stakeholders (customers, contractors, financiers, etc.).
    • Support commercial teams on O&M costing, risk assessment, and service scope definition for new projects.

 

What You Will Bring:

  • Degree in engineering discipline (Industrial, Chemical, Mechanical, etc. - this is not a software position)
  • 10+ years experience in O&M or asset management in energy or industrial environments
  • Strong leadership and team building skills
  • Ability to thrive with intellectual challenges and in dealing with ambiguity
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills
  • Quick learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Entrepreneurial, self-motivated and able to independently drive projects
  • Enthusiasm for and experience providing excellent customer service
  • Proven experience prioritizing and resolving time-critical operational issues
  • Flexibility to work across multiple time zones and travel internationally as required 
  • Passion for safety and environmental stewardship
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken); other languages a plus
  • Valid driver’s license

 

What We Offer:

  • Comprehensive Medical Benefits
  • Very competitive salary plus equity in a quickly-scaling company
  • Opportunity to impact industrial carbonization on a daily basis

This role is required to be on-site in our Madrid office with about 30% travel to project sites required. 

 

Rondo Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do their best work. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities.

Rondo is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the interview process, please let our recruiting team know.

We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias.

Rondo may use AI-assisted tools to help screen and evaluate applications as part of our hiring process. All hiring decisions are made by humans.   

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Rondo does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Rondo Energy does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.

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