Executive Project Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Manage the development of projects involving high-profile, complex, and strategic opportunities throughout North America.

• Assist regional teams with opportunity qualification, audit preparation, solution formulation, project strategizing, financial assessment, risk management, client engagement, and contract implementation.

• Collaborate with Project Developers, Sales teams, Energy Engineers, and Operations leaders to enhance project development capabilities.

• Offer coaching, mentoring, technical support, and leadership for project initiatives.

• Aid in defining customer objectives, prioritizing investments, evaluating alternatives, and aligning stakeholders.

• Support executive presentations, customer workshops, and strategic planning sessions.

• Advocate for the adoption of standardized project development practices, tools, processes, and best practices across North America.

• Promote knowledge sharing, document lessons learned, and enhance consistency, quality, productivity, and customer results.

• Analyze market trends, customer demands, and emerging technologies to pinpoint solution opportunities.

• Collaborate with internal specialists to integrate advanced technologies, building analytics, geothermal solutions, digital tools, AI-enabled technologies, electrification strategies, and resilience-focused solutions.

• Assist teams in balancing customer goals, technical feasibility, financial performance, constructability, operational concerns, implementation risks, and long-term value.

• Facilitate quality assessments of audits, financial models, project scopes, contractor strategies, and customer deliverables.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Energy Management, Facilities Management, Architecture, Business, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Over 8 years of experience leading the development of complex energy, infrastructure, facility modernization, design-build, performance contracting, or capital improvement projects.

• Proven experience guiding multidisciplinary project development teams through opportunity qualification, audit creation, solution design, financial assessment, and contract execution.

• Strong knowledge of building systems, energy conservation measures, facility infrastructure, constructability, and project execution strategies.

• Experience in developing and evaluating business cases, lifecycle cost analyses, financial models, project risks, and customer value propositions.

• Ability to lead and influence diverse teams without direct authority.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and executive engagement skills.

• Capable of effectively communicating with facility, operational, and executive stakeholders.

• Experience coordinating engineers, consultants, contractors, estimators, operations teams, and customer stakeholders.

• Willingness to travel across North America.

• Preferred experience includes Investment Grade Audits, Detailed Audits, ESPC, Design-Build, Large Turnkey, Healthcare, Higher Education, K-12, Municipal, Federal, Industrial, or Commercial projects.

• Preferred familiarity with HVAC systems, controls, energy management systems, electrical infrastructure, central utility plants, renewable energy systems, resilience solutions, and intelligent building technologies.

• Preferred experience managing project development budgets, timelines, audit teams, consultant engagements, and contractor procurement.

• Preferred experience in deploying standardized work, operational enhancements, capability-building programs, or organizational change initiatives.

• Preferred certifications include PE, CEM, PMP, DBIA, LEED AP, or CCP.

• This is a Safety Sensitive role; additional drug screening may be required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Holistic wellness programs with generous incentives

• Fertility coverage

• Adoption/surrogacy assistance

• 401K match up to 6%

• Additional 2% core contribution, up to 8% company contribution

• 15 vacation days

• 9 paid holidays

• 3 floating holidays

• Sick leave

• Volunteer leave options

• Parental leave options

• Educational and training opportunities through company programs

• Tuition assistance

• Student debt support

• Flexibility to help balance life’s demands

• Comprehensive benefits and programs