Director, Performance Engineering

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Full Time Management Chandler, AZ, US

2 days ago Requisition

Nova Source Power Services is the new service partner for renewables asset owners ready to fuel smart growth. As an O&M-focused company with 20 years of operating experience, Nova Source has the global reach and strategic capabilities to achieve our clients’ renewables goals around the world.

To serve our clients, we invest in our teams. Engineers and Technicians work most closely with renewables assets — and are in the best position to take on-target action each day.

Our turn-key services optimize each step of our clients’ project life cycles — from commissioning to decommissioning and everything in between. Our approach delivers creative success for our clients, stability for our teams, and enables us to build a world‑class culture of excellence. And that’s how we empower a renewable world.

The Director, Performance Engineering is a strategic leader responsible for transforming the Performance Engineering function into a best‑in‑class, customer‑centric organization.

Reporting to the VP – Performance Optimization, this role goes beyond traditional performance analysis. It is about elevating the team into trusted advisors—delivering not just data, but actionable insights, forward‑looking guidance, and meaningful recommendations that drive customer success. Today’s opportunity is to rethink and modernize performance engineering by building scalable tools, automation, and reporting capabilities that free the team from manual, repetitive work and enable them to operate as true advisors.

This leader will champion a culture of responsiveness, innovation, and continuous improvement—leveraging digital tools, modern analytics, and strong leadership to build a high‑performing, customer‑minded team. The ideal candidate is energized by change, motivated to develop people, and passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences.

• Serve as a strategic partner to customers by delivering insightful, actionable, and timely performance guidance—not just reports.
• Elevate the team’s role from data providers to trusted advisors and subject matter experts.
• Drive a culture of responsiveness focused on clarity, value, and customer outcomes.
• Build and strengthen long‑term customer relationships through credibility, communication, and expertise.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high‑performing team of Performance Engineers.
• Inspire and mentor team members, with a strong focus on developing junior talent and future leaders.
• Build a customer‑first mindset across the team, aligning technical work with customer needs and business impact.
• Foster an environment of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Ensure consistent, high‑quality service delivery across all Performance Engineering activities.
• Oversee performance modeling, analytics, and reporting for utility‑scale PV and BESS assets.
• Ensure contractual obligations (performance guarantees, availability, reporting) are met with accuracy and timeliness.
• Develop scalable processes, tools, and frameworks to improve efficiency, consistency, and quality.

• Lead the modernization of performance engineering workflows by designing and implementing automation, advanced reporting, and scalable data solutions.
• Identify and eliminate manual, repetitive tasks to significantly improve team efficiency and capacity.
• Build and deploy tools that enable faster, more insightful analysis and decision‑making.
• Redesign reporting to deliver clearer, more meaningful insights to customers while reducing internal effort.
• Create the operational foundation that allows engineers to spend more time advising customers and less time producing reports.
• Champion the adoption of digital tools, advanced analytics, and automation across the team.
• Continuously evolve methodologies to improve insight generation and customer value.
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