About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. The Senior Director of Logistics provides leadership for Plug Power’s hydrogen logistics transportation functions. This role is responsible for defining and executing a scalable, cost-effective, and compliant logistics strategy that supports enterprise growth and operational excellence. This North America role leads up to 5 direct reports and carries responsibility for total transportation and logistics spend of $15M+ annually.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy, planning, and execution for the movement and delivery of hydrogen and related products to customers and suppliers, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations
- Own the transportation function and partner closely with Supply Operations, Engineering, and the Fuel Product Manager to align transport execution with sourcing, production, and product strategy
- Establish scalable logistics network strategies to support North America expansion, infrastructure development, and increasing operational complexity
- Lead logistics capacity and asset planning, including cryogenic trailer fleet sizing, terminal and fueling infrastructure, and the associated capital plan
- Provide oversight of all transportation modes, including bulk cryogenic liquid hydrogen and gaseous tube-trailer transport (the primary modes by cost and risk)
- Ensure logistics readiness and execution for new product launches, hydrogen deployments, and large-scale energy and infrastructure projects
- Ensure adherence to compliance best practices and regulatory requirements while proactively mitigating risk
- Build and lead a high-performing, North America logistics organization, including talent development, succession planning, and organizational design
- Drive enterprise-wide continuous improvement, cost optimization, and operational excellence across logistics operations, with explicit accountability for delivery costs and for product-loss (boil-off / venting) yield from load point to customer delivery
- Establish and monitor executive-level KPIs and reporting, including delivery cost per kg, on-time-in-full (OTIF), trailer utilization and turns, boil-off / product-loss rate, carrier performance, and DOT-recordable safety incident rate, to ensure performance, accountability, and alignment with business objectives and is able and comfortable reporting out to Executive Leadership and/or Board of Directors regarding such KPIs
- Lead strategic sourcing and management of logistics providers, i.e. Logistics Sub-contractors
- Partner cross-functionally with Executive Leadership, Product Management, Finance, Legal, Procurement, Engineering, and Operations to align logistics strategy with business priorities
- Ensure logistics performance meets the service obligations embedded in customer hydrogen supply agreements, including service levels, contingency and backup-supply commitments, and force-majeure provisions
