Area Manager - Mission Critical - DC Metro area (DMV)

Job Type Full-time Description

Salary Range: $130,000 - $170,000 annually

This position is open to candidates local (or open to relocation) to the DC Metro area (DMV) who can travel to job sites and attend in-person meetings & events as needed.

About EEI

EEI is a recognized leader in facility and energy consulting. We deliver innovative, performance-focused solutions that maximize building performance, extend system lifecycles, and reduce utility costs. This dedication has earned us trusted partnerships with Fortune 500 organizations, national healthcare networks, prestigious universities, and leading government agencies.

Nationally recognized for building commissioning and building performance, EEI also provides facility assessments, master planning, energy audits, and technical program management, supported by specialty teams serving healthcare, data, and mission-critical facilities.

Our reputation is built by the people who lead our work every day. That’s why our values aren’t just words, they are lived out daily in how we make decisions, build trusted relationships, and deliver quality. As an employee-owned company, we share success through our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), reflecting our commitment to building something meaningful together. And as EEI rapidly grows, we’re looking for talented people who want meaningful work, a supportive team, and room to grow.

Learn more at https://eeibuildingperformance.com/.

About the Position

The Area Manager – Mission Critical provides senior-level leadership, with a strong emphasis on both people and mission-critical work, for the commissioning quality assurance, and performance validation of mission-critical facilities, including data centers, healthcare facilities, and other high reliability environments where excellence is non-negotiable. This role is responsible for leading supervisors and their teams, ensuring they feel supported, aligned and empowered, on complex multi-disciplinary projects from early planning through closeout, managing client relationships, and ensuring technical excellence, financial performance, and schedule adherence.

This position is ideal for someone ready to mentor and elevate teams, serve as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, and champion the technical and operational consistency for which our Mission Critical teams are known. It can be expected that this role include up to 75% of time spent traveling to project sites proving the opportunity to support teams, tackle challenges, and shape successful outcomes firsthand.

Key Responsibilities:

Supervision, Team Development and Mentorship

• Promote a culture grounded in building trust, championing what’s right, fostering growth opportunities and exceeding expectations.
• Support supervisors, through coaching, in developing their own leadership capabilities while also guiding the growth of their team members on their career paths, both personally and professionally.
• Support onboarding, training, performance development, policy enforcement, & team accountability.

Project Leadership

• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in alignment with EEI quality standards.
• Lead all phases of commissioning for large-scale, complex mission-critical projects, from pre-design planning through final acceptance and turnover.
• Adjust project schedules, and manpower to accommodate changing scope, meet project demands, etc.

Financial Responsibilities

• Provide financial leadership and coaching to Project Managers to assist in meeting budget, forecasting, and performance expectations.
• Own responsibility of the Area’s financial performance, including profit & loss.
• Support business development efforts, develop proposals, and oversee change order process.

Client and Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the senior point of contact for clients, contractors, vendors, and internal leadership.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Lead high-level coordination meetings.

Technical Oversight and Coordination

• Ensure alignment between design intent, construction execution, and operational performance.
• Provide technical and managerial oversight, and escalation support to Project Managers, Engineers, and Commissioning Agents.
• Oversee commissioning, functional performance testing of systems, etc.