■ OPERATIONS · RELIABILITY · RESILIENCE
Understand how your operation succeeds - while it is still succeeding.
Jamar Operations works with leaders in high-risk enterprises to see how mission, technical systems, work, and people fit together in actual operation - and to shape the conditions that keep that work going right.
What must go right
Operations is the integrating discipline - how an organization holds mission, technical systems, work, people, resources, and changing field conditions together. The work starts from what has to go right, and how it is going.
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Critical Steps
Ensuring the right things go right, when and where high-risk work is performed.
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Risk-Based Thinking
Helping people anticipate, monitor, respond, and learn as conditions change.
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Systems Learning
Discovering how work is actually done, understanding the structure that shapes it, and realigning the system to fit its purpose.
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Training and Expertise
Building the knowledge, skill, and respect for the technology that people bring to every critical step.
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Observation and Feedback
Putting managers in the workplace to see the real choices people make, and to learn from them.
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Integration and Implementation
Making Risk-Based Thinking the way work and business get done, with managers owning it.
■ WHERE THE WORK HAS BEEN
Nuclear power & research reactors · DOE national laboratories · Fossil & electric power · Oil & gas · Chemical processing · Commercial aviation · Manufacturing
■ A NOTE ON METHOD
Reading the water
A river runner reads the current well above the rapid - the seams, the pillows, the way water stacks against a rock. The water shows what it is doing long before the drop, for anyone reading it.
Operations behave much the same way. Margins are fuzzy and rarely visible in real time, so they are read from the work itself. The adaptations crews make, the concerns they raise, the growing effort it takes to make a job succeed - that is the current, telling you the state of the operation.
■ CRC PRESS · AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 19, 2026
Systems Learning
Managing Human & Organizational Performance
A risk-informed management discipline for leaders of hazardous operations - moving from asking who did it? to asking what conditions allowed this to happen? - through three iterative phases: discovery, understanding, and realignment.
With Tony Muschara · Foreword by W. E. Carnes
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■ FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Jim Marinus
Jim began in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Program, then Hanford and INPO, twenty-five years at Idaho National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Clients have included American Airlines, Chevron Phillips Chemical, ConocoPhillips Alaska, select DOE national laboratories, and the IAEA, where he develops workshops on leadership behaviour for resilient nuclear performance.
■ CONTACT
Start a conversation
Something in your operation is working and you want to understand why, or the effort it takes to make work succeed is growing. Either is a good place to begin.
Jim@JamarOperations.com · (208) 521-0528 · LinkedIn · Near Asheville, North Carolina