Director, Power Market

Overview

Celebrated as one of Minnesota’s Top Workplaces! Knutson Construction is accepting applications for a Director, Power Market Sector to join our team. “Together We Make Dreams Real” – that is our purpose as a company and we exist to work in concert with each other, owners, design professionals and trade partners to make the journey as stress-free as possible. Knutson is deeply committed to cultivating and upholding diversity throughout our workforce, relationships, and communities.

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The Director, Power Market Sector will position Knutson as a general contractor that safely and rapidly delivers complex power generation facilities where safety, schedule, constructability, and owner risk matter most—particularly co-generation and single cycle projects supporting industrial operations and critical infrastructure. This role leads strategic growth, business development, client relationship management, and market expansion for power generation projects, with a primary focus on co-generation, single-cycle, and combined-cycle power facilities, and the continued growth of this sector into larger and more complex generation programs.

This role will also pursue utility-support facility and service center project opportunities to provide deep and broad services to match client needs.

The Director is accountable for developing new relationships, driving revenue growth, expanding existing partnerships, developing and owning a business plan and go-to-market strategy, and ensuring the organization captures high‑value work within facilities supporting modern power infrastructure.

The ideal candidate is a strategic leader and market sector expert capable and motivated to deliver The Knutson Experience (TKE) to all clients, employees, and partners, making everyone Knutson works with feel assured, inspired, and appreciated.

Safety

• Model and promote Knutson’s Zero Incident Safety Culture.
• Ensure power sector teams and partners understand and uphold safety expectations.

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a multi-year power sector strategic plan aligned with company objectives, to include annual business planning, key metrics, go-to-market strategies, key investments, and new and improved services to achieve revenue, margin, growth targets, and competitive differentiation for the sector.
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert on power generation clients (generation owners, utilities, IPPs, developers), with particular expertise in co-generation, single-cycle, and combined-cycle facilities, including capital planning cycles, regulatory impacts, and execution risk.
• Guide internal teams on market requirements, client expectations, safety demands, and quality standards unique to generation facilities and service-center programs.
• Partner with Operations and Preconstruction leadership to define standardized pursuit-to-delivery approaches suitable for repeatable co-generation, single-cycle, and combined-cycle power generation work, including procurement strategy, prefab concepts, commissioning readiness, QA/QC, and turnover standards. Recommend investments in talent, technology, partnerships, and capabilities to support sustainable expansion.

Business Development and Growth

• Own the power generation project pipeline and revenue forecasting with explicit focus on co-generation, single-cycle, and combined-cycle projects, while tracking follow-on service center work generated through generation clients and track conversion metrics. Drive pursuit strategy, go/no-go decisions, and development of proposals and presentations.
• Build, strengthen, and maintain executive-level relationships with utilities, independent power producers (IPPs), EPC firms, OEMs, municipal and cooperative utilities, developers, and other key industry partners and stakeholders.
• Identify transformative clients and develop…