Director, Energy & Power Systems

EXP; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

EXP seeks a dynamic leader to establish and grow our Energy Infrastructure and Mission Critical Facilities practice across North America. You will drive strategy, business development, and client engagement for data centers, AI infrastructure, and utilities, reporting to the Senior Vice President, Expansion.

You will lead market expansion, pursue opportunities, and build a national multidisciplinary team focused on resilient energy systems and grid modernization.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in energy infrastructure, utilities, mission critical facilities, or related markets.
• Proven track record developing large-scale infrastructure programs and client relationships.
• Experience engaging utilities, ISOs, RTOs, energy developers, and major commercial clients.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute EXP's strategic growth plan for Energy Infrastructure and Mission Critical markets.
• Build relationships with hyperscale cloud providers, AI infrastructure developers, utilities, independent power producers, and energy developers.
• Lead pursuit strategy, capture planning, and client development activities.
• Identify and secure opportunities for planning, engineering, owner's representative, program management, and advisory services.
• Expand EXP's footprint in data centers, utility infrastructure, transmission, substations, renewable energy, energy storage, and distributed energy resources.
• Advise clients on power availability, grid capacity, interconnection strategy, and utility engagement.
• Lead infrastructure planning efforts supporting data center and mission critical developments.
• Support site selection and due diligence activities requiring utility and energy infrastructure assessments.
• Provide executive-level guidance regarding energy reliability, resiliency, sustainability, and speed-to-market considerations.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary national team.
• Establish technical offerings, market positioning, and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate with transportation, aviation, buildings, environmental, and infrastructure business lines to develop integrated solutions.
• Support recruitment and development of industry-leading talent.
• Serve as executive sponsor for major strategic clients.
• Represent EXP at industry conferences, utility forums, and energy market events.
• Establish thought leadership initiatives focused on AI infrastructure, energy transition, electrification, resiliency, and grid modernization.

Skills

Energy infrastructure leadership

Client engagement

Business development

Strategic planning

Utilities/ISOs/RTOs experience

Job description

Job Description

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators, and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, and believes diversity is what gives us strength. We pursue sustainable results and share ambitions for each other, our clients, and the communities we serve. To be part of EXP means having your own experience while staying connected to a global network of professionals who believe we are part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Be our next Director, Energy & Power Systems

EXP is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader to establish and grow our Energy Infrastructure and Mission Critical Facilities practice across North America. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Expansion, this role will lead strategy, business development, client engagement, and market expansion focused on powering the next generation of data centers, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, utilities, and resilient energy systems.

Are you ready to design your future?

EXP is seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader to establish and grow our Energy Infrastructure and Mission Critical Facilities practice across North America. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Expansion, this role will lead strategy, business development, client engagement, and market expansion focused on powering the next generation of data centers, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, utilities, and resilient energy systems.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Develop and execute EXP's strategic growth plan for Energy Infrastructure and Mission Critical markets.
• Build relationships with hyperscale cloud providers, AI infrastructure developers, utilities, independent power producers, and energy developers.
• Lead pursuit strategy, capture planning, and client development activities.
• Identify and secure opportunities for planning, engineering, owner's representative, program management, and advisory services.
• Expand EXP's footprint in data centers, utility infrastructure, transmission, substations, renewable energy, energy storage, and distributed energy resources.

Strategic Advisory Services

• Advise clients on power availability, grid capacity, interconnection strategy, and utility engagement.
• Lead infrastructure planning efforts supporting data center and mission critical developments.
• Support site selection and due diligence activities requiring utility and energy infrastructure assessments.
• Provide executive-level guidance regarding energy reliability, resiliency, sustainability, and speed-to-market considerations.

Practice Leadership

• Build and lead a multidisciplinary national team.
• Establish technical offerings, market positioning, and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate with transportation, aviation, buildings, environmental, and infrastructure business lines to develop integrated solutions.
• Support recruitment and development of industry-leading talent.

Executive Client Engagement

• Serve as executive sponsor for major strategic clients.
• Represent EXP at industry conferences, utility forums, and energy market events.
• Establish thought leadership initiatives focused on AI infrastructure, energy transition, electrification, resiliency, and grid modernization.

Key Markets

• Data Centers
• AI Infrastructure
• Mission Critical Facilities
• Utility Infrastructure
• Grid Modernization
• Transmission & Distribution
• Renewable Energy
• Energy Storage
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Electrification Programs
• Industrial Power Infrastructure

What Your Experience Looks Like

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in energy infrastructure, utilities, mission critical facilities, or related markets.
• Proven track record developing large-scale infrastructure programs and client relationships.
• Experience engaging utilities, ISOs, RTOs, energy developers, and major commercial clients.
• Demonstrated success leading business development and market growth initiatives.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Utility interconnections
  • Transmission planning
  • Generation development
  • Grid reliability
  • Energy permitting
  • Infrastructure development
• Executive presence and ability to engage C-suite stakeholders.

About Us

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

Our story

Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

What Makes Us Different

The passion, enthusiasm, diversity and industry-leading capabilities of our employees make us who we are. We’re committed to providing a challenging work environment that cultivates career growth, encourages creativity and rewards excellence. Find out more about life at EXP by visiting www.exp.com .

About The Team

EXP is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who fully and actively supports equal access for all people regardless of Race, Color, Sex, Religion, Gender, Age, National Origin, Veteran Status, Disability, Genetic Information or Testing, Family and Medical Leave, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression.

Should you need any special accommodations, please feel free to contact us at [e-mail] and we will arrange for the most suitable accommodations based on your needs.