General Manager, West

NextGenEnergyJobs; Sacramento, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

RES in Sacramento is seeking a senior regional leader to guide delivery of the West Region's project portfolio, ensuring ecological outcomes and strong client relationships.

You will lead by example on safety, manage the regional financial plan, and build a high-performing leadership team across offices, with regular travel to projects and sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive, complex project delivery experience.
• 5+ years of P&L responsibility and team leadership.
• Portfolio-scale oversight of multi-year projects with risk in execution.
• Proven track record building leadership capability and talent retention.
• Strong financial and operating judgment for revenue, cash, EBITDA, and margins.

Responsibilities

• Lead a geographically dispersed portfolio across the full lifecycle.
• Maintain visibility into backlog, schedules, cost, cash, capacity, and risks; drive corrective action.
• Serve as a safety leader focusing on prevention and accountability.
• Own regional financial plan: revenue, gross profit, cash, EBITDA, margins; set priorities.
• Build and retain a capable regional leadership team and workforce.
• Executive sponsor for significant projects and client relationships with sales and BD support.
• Ensure projects meet scope, contracts, schedules, permits, quality, regulatory commitments, and ecological obligations.
• Maintain productive relationships with regulators, tribal nations, landowners, consultants, subcontractors, and community stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

P&L Management

Strategic Planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Risk Management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

This position is based in RES's Sacramento office and is not designated as remote.

Responsibilities

• This is an opportunity to lead a geographically dispersed business where commercial judgment and project execution directly support ecological outcomes. You will shape regional priorities, strengthen the leadership bench, improve portfolio performance, and serve as an executive sponsor for projects and client relationships that matter to communities and ecosystems throughout the West.
• You will lead delivery of the region's project portfolio across the full lifecycle. You will maintain clear visibility into backlog conversion, schedules, cost, cash, capacity, and material delivery risks, and you will ensure leaders take timely corrective action when performance falls short of plan.
• You will serve as a visible safety leader by engaging employees, focusing on prevention, and holding leaders accountable for safe execution in office and project environments.
• You will own delivery of the region's financial plan, including revenue, gross profit, cash, EBITDA, project margins, and forecast accuracy. You will set regional priorities and make investment and resource decisions that reflect company strategy, market conditions, delivery capacity, and risk.
• You will build and retain a capable regional leadership team and workforce. This includes strengthening manager effectiveness, addressing performance and employee concerns consistently, maintaining succession and development plans for critical roles, and using employee feedback and workforce trends to guide action.
• You will serve as an executive operating sponsor for significant projects and client relationships. In partnership with sales and business development leaders, you will contribute to solution development, assess operational feasibility, evaluate opportunities, and support a disciplined handoff from award to execution.
• You will ensure projects are managed in accordance with scope, contracts, schedules, permits, quality standards, regulatory commitments, and long‑term ecological obligations. You will identify material risks, establish clear accountability, and ensure compliance concerns are escalated and corrected promptly.
• You will maintain productive relationships with regulatory agencies, tribal nations, landowners, consultants, subcontractors, community stakeholders, and other partners. You will also work across functions and regions to deploy resources, share capabilities, and apply lessons learned across RES.
• Lead visibly on safety, focus on prevention, and hold yourself and others accountable.
• Deliver on commitments, communicate transparently, and resolve issues in ways that protect client confidence and RES's reputation.
• Build effective teams, invite diverse perspectives, and collaborate across functions and regions.
• Address difficult issues directly, maintain high ethical standards, and make sound decisions when the path is not easy.
• Stay composed through uncertainty, learn quickly, and adjust course when evidence or conditions change.
• Turn priorities into measurable operating, financial, and ecological results.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in applied sciences, engineering, construction management, environmental science, business, or a related field.
• Ten or more years of progressive experience in complex, project-based delivery.
• Five or more years of P&L responsibility and team leadership, including experience leading through managers or front-line leaders.
• Portfolio-scale oversight of complex, multi-year projects involving significant schedule, cost, contractual, subcontractor, and execution risk.
• Demonstrated success building leadership capability, strengthening accountability, improving team effectiveness, and retaining talent.
• Strong financial and operating judgment, including the ability to manage revenue, gross profit, cash, EBITDA, project margins, capacity, and forecasts.
• The ability to build trust with clients, employees, regulators, tribal nations, landowners, consultants, subcontractors, and community stakeholders.
• Willingness to work from the Sacramento office and travel regularly throughout the West Region, with occasional travel to other RES locations.