Director, Performance Engineering & Commissioning - Service Line Development

** RE Tech Advisors, a Legence company*
* RE Tech Advisors ()  is a growing, woman-led consulting firm of over 125 ESG professionals. We deliver results at the intersection of engineering, technology, and sustainability. RE Tech has a progressive and ambitious client base that includes numerous commercial real estate portfolios, private equity investors, federal agencies, industry associations, and manufacturing companies. By joining the RE Tech Advisors team, you will work closely with recognized industry leaders who are driving national and global sustainability initiatives providing you the opportunity to realize your own professional growth objectives in the ESG arena.

** Summary*
* The Director, Engineering & Commissioning - Service Line Development is a senior technical leader focused on creating, validating, and scaling new performance engineering, commissioning, and decarbonization services for commercial real estate, particularly existing buildings. Positioned initially within the Growth Team, the role shapes market-ready service offerings, expands technical capabilities, validates client demand, and drives revenue growth.

The role partners closely with Account Management and Solutions & Services leadership to align technical solutions with market needs and commercial strategy. While execution is led by established delivery teams, this position provides senior technical guidance and may engage in early-stage or pilot work to test demand and reduce risk.

Designed to evolve over time, the role requires comfort with ambiguity and a proactive approach to defining priorities, structure, and long-term engineering leadership as services mature. It is hybrid-flexible and based in McLean, VA or New York City.

** Key Responsibilities*
* + Service Strategy, Definition and Validation

+ Quickly assess market demand, client needs, internal capabilities and competitor offerings to identify and prioritize new performance engineering, commissioning, and decarbonization service offerings with near term and long term revenue potential.

+ Define, build and scale new engineering and commissioning service offerings from concept through market validation, translating execution-level expertise into clear, market-ready scopes, methodologies, and value propositions.

+ Establish technical frameworks, quality standards, and delivery assumptions that enable consistency, rigor, and scalability across portfolios and clients.

+ Early-Stage Execution & Technical Oversight (as needed)

+ Provide senior technical oversight during pilot or early stage engagements to validate service approaches, confirm level of effort assumptions, and identify delivery risks or capability gaps.

+ Engage, where necessary, directly in project execution in coordination with existing technical team members to support early validation, prove demand, or accelerate readiness while delivery capacity is built.

+ Capture lessons learned from early work and translate them into refined service definitions, standards, and delivery models.

+ Commercialization, Growth & Internal Enablement

+ Translate technical capabilities into clear, commercially viable service offerings that can be confidently positioned, sold, and delivered.

+ Partner closely with Growth, Account Management, and Solutions & Services leadership to support proposals, renewals, and client conversations, ensuring offerings align with client planning and investment decision cycles.

+ Support business development by contributing technical credibility, scoping input, and client facing narratives that connect services to asset performance, compliance readiness, and value creation.

+ Organizational Enablement & Talent Development

+ Partner with delivery leaders to prepare services and delivery model for operational scale, including documentation, standards, and transition plans into Solutions & Services.

+ Build and mentor technical talent required to sustain new service growth, contributing to the design of future technical leadership pathways informed by service incubation.

+ Represent RE Tech externally through industry engagement, technical forums, and associations (e.g., BOMA, ASHRAE, USGBC.) contributing to thought leadership and market visibility.

** How this Role Operates*
* + This role is accountable for defining and validating what the firm is prepared to sell and scale, rather than owning ongoing project delivery.

+ Acts as senior technical authority and advisor, accountable for service definition and scale-up rather than day-to-day execution.

+ Enables delivery through established technical teams.

+ Focuses on scalability, rigor and repeatability, not bespoke one-off solutions.

+ Works across the organization during periods of growth and transition.

** Essential Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

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* + Ability to translate technical or operational analysis into financial or investment-relevant insights (e.g., impacts to NOI, Cap Ex, valuation, or risk exposure.)

+ Ability to advise clients with a strong understanding of how…