Portfolio Executive - Midwest

Koch Engineered Solutions, LLC.; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

DEPCOM Power is seeking a Portfolio Executive to lead a multi-project portfolio of utility-scale solar PV and BESS in the Midwest. You will drive profitability, transform project delivery, and build high-performing teams while strengthening customer partnerships.

This role requires up to 50% travel, with relocation support to Scottsdale, AZ and no visa sponsorship. Proven leadership of PM teams and strong execution skills are essential.

Qualifications

• EPC experience across engineering design, procurement, construction, commissioning and closeout.
• Demonstrated P&L responsibility for portfolios or business units exceeding $100 million.
• Proven leadership of Project Management teams and mentoring senior staff.
• Strong business economics, contracts, and negotiations with customers and subcontractors.
• Technical construction acumen to evaluate constructability, sequencing, productivity, and risk.
• Strategic thinking to transform processes for efficiency and innovation.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Provide portfolio leadership with full profit and loss responsibility for a multi-project portfolio.
• Oversee multiple Project Managers delivering PV and BESS projects through self-perform and subcontracted execution.
• Set portfolio construction strategy aligning with cost, schedule, quality and risk.
• Lead transformational changes in processes and technology adoption to improve delivery.
• Mentor team members and foster high-impact performance.
• Represent the portfolio in customer and industry engagements.

Skills

EPC experience

P&L responsibility

Leadership of PM teams

Contracts & negotiations

Constructability & risk

Strategic thinking

Travel up to 50%

Job description

Your Job

DEPCOM Power is hiring a Portfolio Executive for the Midwest region. As a Portfolio Executive, you will lead a portfolio of utility-scale solar PV and BESS projects across the Midwest region, driving profitable growth, transformational change, and exceptional project outcomes. You will develop high-performing teams, strengthen customer partnerships, and advance self-perform and subcontracted project delivery strategies that create long‑term value for customers and DEPCOM.

This role may be based in DEPCOM’s Scottsdale, AZ office or remotely within the Midwest. It requires up to 50% travel to support project and business needs, and relocation assistance to Scottsdale is available. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Our Team

At Koch, Principle Based Management guides how we work, make decisions, and create value. Within DEPCOM Power, our Project Delivery team applies these principles while leading complex utility-scale solar and energy storage projects. By partnering across engineering, procurement, construction, and operations, the team delivers safe, high‑quality outcomes and creates long‑term value for customers and communities.

What You Will Do

Strategic & Portfolio Leadership

• Full profit and loss responsibility for a multi‑project portfolio, including budget, forecast, and financial outcomes
• Oversee multiple Project Managers and Senior Project Managers delivering complex PV and BESS projects through self‑perform and subcontracted execution models
• Set portfolio construction execution strategy across self‑perform and subcontracted scopes, aligning delivery methods with project requirements, internal capabilities, cost, schedule, quality, and risk
• Cultivate long‑term customer partnerships, drive repeat business, and create mutually beneficial outcomes

Transformative Leadership

• Lead enterprise‑scale transformation initiatives that improve project delivery performance, cost competitiveness, and customer value through innovative processes, technologies, and delivery methods
• Lead and inspire transformative change in processes, paradigms, and technology adoption, setting new industry benchmarks in total installed cost
• Drive continuous talent growth by mentoring team members, fostering skill development, and enabling high‑impact performance aligned with organizational goals
• Create an environment where empowered field teams make decisions, challenge assumptions, and drive economic thinking at every level

Operational Excellence

• Ensure rigorous adherence to project objectives, including environmental, safety, quality, schedule, financial, and compliance requirements
• Champion collaboration across engineering, procurement, construction, quality, EH&S, and other support teams to deliver technically sound, project‑centric solutions
• Provide technical and constructability leadership across the portfolio, challenging execution plans and ensuring teams apply sound construction methods, sequencing, productivity, and risk‑management practices
• Proactively communicate internal and external capability gaps and drive strategic solutions

Stakeholder Engagement

• Drive mutually beneficial outcomes for customers, partners, and internal teams
• Lead monthly and quarterly portfolio reviews with customers and partners
• Represent DEPCOM at industry events and within the broader renewable energy marketplace

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• EPC experience with a deep understanding of project lifecycle phases, including engineering design, procurement, construction execution, commissioning, and project closeout, with direct experience building complex projects
• Demonstrated P&L responsibility for large portfolios or business units exceeding $100 million
• Proven leadership of Project Management teams with a track record of developing and mentoring senior staff
• Strong acumen in business economics, contracts, and negotiations with customers and subcontractors, including experience leading both self‑perform construction and subcontracted scopes
• Demonstrated technical construction acumen, including the ability to evaluate constructability, execution methods, sequencing, productivity, and cost and schedule risk
• Demonstrated strategic thinking skills with a proven ability to analyze and transform business processes to drive efficiency and innovation
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time

What Will Put You Ahead

• 10+ years of EPC experience
• Utility‑scale solar and/or BESS construction experience
• Experience building and scaling self‑perform construction capabilities while effectively managing subcontracted partners
• Familiarity with industry benchmarking and best practices
• Experience leading transformative change through digitization, modularization, automation, or other innovative technologies that improve project delivery outcomes

For this role, we anticipate paying $240k - $260k per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).