• Lead the development of the Integrated Energy (Energy Resilience) domain across the United States.
• Identify and prioritize target markets, including enterprise, campus, infrastructure, and government environments.
• Assess fragmented energy ecosystems to uncover opportunities for optimization, resilience, and modernization.
• Contribute market insight and domain expertise to national AEP strategy.
• Build and maintain a national pipeline of technically viable project opportunities in partnership with sales teams.
• Identify inefficiencies and unmet needs across customer energy systems and operations.
• Advance opportunities that can be translated into executable AEP projects.
• Translate customer challenges into structured energy optimization and resilience concepts.
• Partner with Application Engineering teams to define practical, technically sound solutions.
• Develop integrated approaches that improve efficiency, system performance, and energy resilience.
• Technical domains include microgrids, distributed energy resources (DERs), controls, central plants, combined heat, and power (CHP), solar plus storage, demand response, resilience planning, and grid interconnection.
• Convert qualified opportunities into clearly defined project scopes.
• Support roadmap development, feasibility assessment, and scope definition.
• Contribute to commercial framing, value articulation, and business case development.
• Engage energy managers, operations leaders, and infrastructure stakeholders to understand customer priorities and constraints.
• Guide customers toward practical, high-value energy programs and project pathways.
• Navigate complex stakeholder environments to build alignment and momentum around opportunity development.
• Serve as a key interface among sales, engineering, operations, and other internal stakeholders.
• Drive alignment and decision-making without direct authority.
• Lead opportunity development through influence, coordination, and clear communication.
• Ensure a structured transition of qualified opportunities into project execution.
• Maintain involvement through early execution to support continuity and successful handoff.
• Provide feedback and insights that strengthen AEP processes, offerings, and go-to-market effectiveness.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in energy resilience.
• Help shape strategy, solution positioning, and capability development within the domain.
• Support internal teams with market, customer, and technical insight.
• Other duties as assigned by manager.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, energy systems, HVAC/MEP, or a related field.
• 7–10+ years of experience in energy resilience, engineering, technical business development, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical challenges into structured project opportunities.
• Working knowledge of integrated energy systems, energy optimization, and resilience-focused solution development.
• Demonstrates a willingness to collaborate with others, build relationships, and involve others in decision making.
• Demonstrates the ability to deliver results by solving or supporting others in solving problems, prioritizing tasks, and/or resources, and focusing on outcomes.
• Demonstrates self-awareness and the willingness to learn and grow, accept changes, and effectively adapt to changing work demands.
• Demonstrates the ability to drive customer value through knowledge of the business, putting effort into identifying customer needs, and delivering work to maximize the value for customers.
• Demonstrates a willingness to promote the value of improvement and innovation by staying ahead of trends, creating ideas and opportunities, and generating speed.
• Demonstrates a willingness to take ownership by making decisions, taking responsibility, and driving things forward.
• Experience with the Resource Efficiency Manager (REM) program or equivalent models.
• Experience in government, institutional, campus-scale, or complex infrastructure environments.
• Proven success delivering energy optimization, efficiency, or resilience-focused initiatives.
• Experience shaping and developing opportunities, not solely closing pre-defined solutions.
Phoenix Contact offers a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, and a generous time off package. There are also a wide variety of additional benefits available including 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave & 10 weeks fully paid paternity leave, life insurance, short & long-term disability, assistance, and more!
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