Energy Advisor (Energy Manager / Outreach Engineer)

Location: Hybrid in the Chicagoland area, including Chicago, Evanston, Oak Brook, Naperville, Joliet, and Aurora, Illinois; local travel to customer sites up to approximately 50% of the time

Base salary: $90,000–$110,000 annually, plus eligibility for a performance-based incentive plan. Total possible compensation is approximately $90,000–$130,000.

Company

hirify.global is a women-led energy transformation firm focused on energy efficiency, clean energy solutions, load flexibility, electrification, and carbon reduction.

What you will do

• Serve as a strategic energy management partner for commercial and industrial customers.
• Identify, qualify, and prioritize energy efficiency and facility optimization opportunities.
• Evaluate facilities and systems through site visits, technical reviews, documentation analysis, and data analytics.
• Develop energy management action plans, business cases, implementation strategies, and project forecasts.
• Build relationships with facility leaders, engineers, utility representatives, contractors, and executive stakeholders.
• Coordinate engineering, customer, utility, and contractor stakeholders to remove implementation barriers and deliver measurable energy savings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least five years of experience in energy efficiency consulting, technical sales, engineering consulting, facility optimization, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of commercial or industrial facilities and energy-saving technologies, including HVAC, lighting, motors, compressed air, refrigeration, and process systems.
• Experience supporting utility-sponsored energy efficiency programs and influencing customer decisions through consultative selling.
• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder engagement, organization, and project management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and willingness to travel locally to customer sites up to approximately 50% of the time.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• CEM, CEA, CBCP, PE, or similar professional credentials.
• Application engineering, sales, customer service, CRM, pipeline management, and performance reporting experience.
• Demonstrated success developing customer accounts and driving energy efficiency project implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a women-led organization focused on measurable energy and environmental impact.
• Three weeks of paid vacation annually and paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Medical, dental, vision, parental leave, employee assistance, and commuter benefits.
• Employment is contingent on successful background and reference checks; a pre-employment drug screen may apply.