Senior Director Energy Systems & Commercial Engineering

Greenlink Energy Solutions•Rockford, IL

17h

About The Position

Greenlink Energy Solutions is hiring a senior technical leader to lead its Technical Solutions Team (TST), which supports the company’s commercial clean-energy growth platform. The role leads engineering, modeling, pricing integrity, and workflow systems across commercial solar, storage, HVAC, building envelope, controls, and energy optimization projects. It is a technical leadership position rather than a drafting or purely sales-engineering role, with accountability for technical design authority, pricing integrity, technical standards, value-stack optimization, proposal control, and workflows between Sales, TST, and Operations. The Senior Director is the final technical checkpoint before projects proceed and is responsible for ensuring projects are bankable, buildable, and profitable. The position reports to executive leadership and has decision rights over technical design and product selection, with executive escalation for major strategic shifts. The role also develops the processes and documentation that enable TST to operate consistently as the company scales. This includes improving modeling and pricing tools, workflow clarity, proposal turnaround, and AI knowledge capture. The compensation range is $110,000–$140,000 per year, based on experience, with a performance bonus structure tied to margin protection and SLA performance.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience in commercial solar, storage, or integrated energy systems.
Deep experience with commercial and industrial solar PV design and modeling.
Strong understanding of storage sizing, demand charges, and rate structures.
Experience reviewing or building pricing models for commercial projects.
Proven ability to lead engineers or technical teams.
Comfort interfacing directly with Sales leadership and executive stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating solar, storage, and HVAC solutions.
Familiarity with utility incentive programs and compliance constraints.
Background using energy modeling tools such as Helioscope, Energy Toolbase (ETB), or Aurora.
Experience improving internal processes and workflows.
Experience building standardized product catalogs or design standards.
Understanding of how pricing assumptions affect financing and investment tax credit (ITC) outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead the Technical Solutions Team and its mission to design systems that work in real-world conditions, maximize customer value and margin, and enable Sales and Operations to work effectively.
Serve as senior technical authority for commercial and industrial solar, storage, HVAC, and integrated energy systems.
Validate production-modeling assumptions and identify system feasibility issues and technical risks.
Ensure designs are constructible and aligned with downstream engineering, and provide build-ready technical packages before Operations handoff.
Own technical assumptions embedded in pricing models and partner with Finance on CA tool logic and margin frameworks.
Identify margin-erosion risks, standardize cost assumptions and product-catalog logic, and improve version control and pricing discipline.
Address mis-scoping or mis-pricing by improving the underlying system and processes.
Ensure commercial proposals assess the full energy value stack, including solar, storage, HVAC, envelope, controls, demand management, incentives, and program layering.
Guide Sales in translating customer goals into engineered solutions.
Enforce intake standards before proposal-turnaround SLA clocks begin and improve Monday board hygiene and workflow clarity.
Establish repeatable design, pricing, and proposal sequences; reduce cycle time without sacrificing rigor; and build documentation standards for AI knowledge capture.
Evaluate and refine Helioscope modeling workflows, Energy Toolbase processes, central CA/pricing tools, CRM-to-design integrations, and AI knowledge-base inputs.