Vice President of Commercial Energy Operations

Position: Vice President of Commercial Energy Operations Location: Buffalo and surrounding areas Schedule: Days Compensation: $175,000-$200,000/year, based on experience

What We Are Looking For

The Vice President of Commercial Energy Operations is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing and optimizing the operational execution of NOCO’s commercial energy solutions portfolio. This role leads operational strategy, field execution, safety, quality, and delivery across NOCO’s commercial energy businesses.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Commercial Services, the VP of Commercial Energy Operations ensures that all commercial projects and services are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with design standards, customer expectations, and regulatory requirements. This position is accountable for operational excellence, scalability, workforce performance, and continuous improvement - while partnering closely with sales leadership, finance, and executive leadership to support profitable growth.

What You Will Do

- Provide executive leadership for all commercial energy operations, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across all business lines.

- Establish clear operational standards, expectations, and accountability across field operations, project execution, and service delivery.

- Ensure projects are executed safely, on schedule, within scope, and aligned with customer commitments and design specifications.

- Oversee operational planning, resource allocation, labor strategy, and workload balancing across all commercial energy operations.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

- Champion NOCO’s Culture of Safety across all commercial operations, ensuring strict adherence to OSHA requirements, electrical codes, environmental regulations, and internal safety standards.

- Ensure consistent enforcement of safety policies, training programs, audits, and corrective action processes.

- Oversee quality control, inspections, commissioning, and closeout processes to ensure best-in-class workmanship and customer outcomes.

- Ensure full compliance with federal, state, and local regulations applicable to commercial energy operations.

- Establish and monitor operational KPIs related to productivity, schedule adherence, quality, rework, safety performance, and customer satisfaction.

- Identify operational risks, inefficiencies, and capacity constraints, and implement corrective actions.

- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to streamline workflows, reduce rework, improve throughput, and enhance scalability.

- Partner with finance and operations leadership to support margin improvement through operational efficiency and cost control.

- Lead, mentor, and develop operations leaders, managers, and supervisors across commercial energy business lines.

- Build strong succession plans and leadership pipelines to support growth and organizational stability.

- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and operational discipline across all teams.

- Support workforce planning, talent development, and training initiatives to strengthen technical and leadership capabilities.

- Partner closely with the EVP of Commercial Services to align operational execution with overall commercial strategy.

- Collaborate with sales leadership to ensure operational readiness and smooth handoffs from contract to execution.

- Ensure a consistent, professional customer experience across all commercial energy operations.

- Support resolution of escalated operational or customer issues when necessary.

- Maintain strong working relationships with vendors, subcontractors, inspectors, and regulatory agencies.

- Identify and mitigate operational, safety, compliance, and reputational risks.

- Ensure operational policies, procedures, and controls are consistently followed across all teams.

- Support business continuity planning and operational resilience.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required by personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish an employment contract and are subject to change at the discretion of the Company.

NOCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

What You Will Need

- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in construction management, engineering, energy systems, business, or a related field required

- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in commercial construction, energy services, or multi-trade field operations.

- Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-discipline operations (mechanical, electrical, renewable, or similar).

- Strong working knowledge of commercial jobsite operations, safety regulations, and regulatory compliance.

- Proven ability to lead leaders, scale operations, and drive operational discipline.

- Experience establishing and managing operational KPIs and performance frameworks.

- Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Strong strategic, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.

- Ability to partner effectively across sales, finance, and executive leadership while maintaining operational independence.

What We Offer

- Competitive compensation package

- Generous medical insurance offerings

- Dental and vision plans

- Company-paid life insurance

- Company-paid short-term disability

- 401(k) with company match

- Health savings accounts

- Generous Paid Time Off policies

- 7 paid holidays

- Employee and family assistance program

- Company-paid training

- Safety incentives

- Years of service incentives