Energy Advisor; Energy Manager​/Outreach Engineer

Resource Innovations is seeking an Energy Advisor (Energy Manager / Outreach Engineer) to join our growing team in Northern, IL (Chicagoland). We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Energy Advisor with a strong background in energy efficiency to join our dynamic team. As an Energy Advisor (Energy Manager / Outreach Engineer) with Resource Innovations, you will serve as a senior strategic and technical advisor to commercial and industrial customers, helping organizations identify, prioritize, and advance high-value energy efficiency and facility optimization initiatives.

This energy consulting role is for an experienced professional who will combine technical expertise, consultative sales skills, and strong business acumen to influence customer investment decisions and move complex projects from opportunity identification through implementation.

In this highly consultative and results-driven role, you will lead customers through the full project development lifecycle, including but not limited to strategic energy planning, opportunity assessment, business-case development, technical evaluation, financial considerations, and implementation. You will be expected to navigate complex customer organizations to identify, engage, and influence key decision-makers, overcome barriers, and build a strong pipeline of actionable energy efficiency projects that deliver measurable energy savings and value to customers.

You will also develop and manage trusted relationships with commercial and industrial utility customer facility leaders, engineers, energy managers, sustainability professionals, financial decision-makers, and executive stakeholders. This customer engagement will lead to a comprehensive understanding of their operational priorities, capital planning objectives, and energy goals. Leveraging these insights, you will identify and develop opportunities across all the utility energy efficiency program offerings.

A successful Energy Advisor will operate independently, with technical credibility, a strategic account ownership skillset, and leverage data analytics to convert opportunities into savings.

Resource Innovations (RI) is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on impact
. Building on our expertise in energy efficiency, we're constantly expanding our portfolio of clean energy solutions to guide utilities through increasingly complex, connected challenges. Load flexibility. Electrification. Carbon reduction. With every step, we're leading the charge to power change.

• Customer Engagement, Account Management, and Program Growth
  • Serve as customers’ strategic energy management partner, identifying and prioritizing opportunities that align with their operational, financial, and sustainability objectives.
  • Influence customer energy management strategies by delivering data-driven recommendations and actionable implementation plans.
  • Anticipate customer and program needs and deliver solutions that create measurable value.
  • Champion the broader mission of energy efficiency by helping customers understand the operational, financial, and environmental benefits of energy-saving investments.
  • Develop and execute territory and account strategies that maximize participation, project conversion, and achieve energy savings targets.
  • Build trusted relationships with utility representatives, facility engineers and operators, contractors, and key decision-makers to drive long-term engagement and project adoption.
  • Serve as the primary liaison and relationship manager between customers, utility, contractors, engineering teams, and program leadership to ensure a seamless customer experience.
  • Maintain accurate customer activity, opportunity pipelines, and project forecasts within CRM…