AI Governance & Innovation Operations Specialist
Date: Aug 2, 2026
Location: YAVNE, IL, 81515
Company: Ormat
Ormat Technologies (NYSE: ORA) is a publicly traded renewable energy company and a global leader in geothermal and energy storage.
The Role
Ormat runs a broad innovation agenda across its global operations - advanced technologies, process redesign, transformation, strategy, AI, and automation.
This role supports two connected efforts: the AI Center of Excellence and the innovation portfolio. You'll keep AI governance running day to day, manage the innovation pipeline, and make it easy for employees company-wide to participate - partnering closely with Legal, other HQ functions, and the business units. It suits someone highly organized, sharp, and well-spoken who can own a program end to end and lead training in front of a room.
What You'll Do
- AI intake & assessment. Run the intake process end to end - form, channels, triage, review workflow, SLAs, and risk-based decisions.
- Innovation operations. Track all submissions, maintain the idea and venture pipeline, and support logistics and communications.
- Training & enablement. Develop and deliver AI governance and tool-adoption training - live and written.
- Inventory & policy upkeep. Maintain the approved-AI-systems inventory and keep the AI Policy, risk tiers, and guidance current.
- AI Committee support. Serve as the committee's operational secretariat.
- Program administration. Support scheduling, documentation, reporting, and dashboards with IT.
- Help desk. Be the first point of contact for governance and innovation questions.
- External ecosystem. Work with the innovation external ecosystem where relevant.
What We're Looking For
- Organized and self-directed: 2+ years in program coordination, operations, compliance, or governance, ideally in a public or regulated company.
- Strong communicator and presenter: comfortable leading trainings and facilitating senior stakeholders.
- Proven at structured processes with clear SLAs, documentation, and audit trails.
- Strong stakeholder management across HQ and business units.
- Working familiarity with AI/GenAI tools and a basic grasp of vendor terms, data-privacy, and information-security concepts - coordinate with Legal and IT Security.
- Pragmatic, service-oriented mindset.
- Fluent Hebrew and English.
A Plus
Experience with a governance committee or innovation program; exposure to SEC-regulated environments or NIST/EU AI Act frameworks