Building Service Director
About the Role
This is a senior leadership role with full ownership of the Building Services department. Service is a lifecycle business here; every customer interaction either builds equity or erodes it. The ideal candidate leads through direct reports, not as a player-coach, and focuses their time on customer relationships, growth strategy, financial performance, and team development. This is a primarily in-person role based in Salt Lake City, with remote flexibility and travel limited to planned events. Hybrid scheduling is available after performance benchmarks are established.
Responsibilities
- Financial performance: gross margin, revenue growth, revenue per technician, and department P&L.
- Execution excellence: standardized field execution, ticket quality, documentation standards, and billing accuracy.
- Pricing discipline: establishing margin floors, pricing guardrails, and approval structures.
- Technician development: performance management, compensation architecture, and career pathing for the field team.
- Customer strategy: defining the ideal customer profile, optimizing revenue mix, and strengthening retention.
- Cross-functional partnerships: aligning with Sales, Construction, Operations, and Centralized Services across every handoff.
- Safety culture: reinforcing field safety behaviors, near-miss reporting, and 100% compliance on toolbox huddles.
- Technology & AI adoption: applying practical tools to improve documentation, dispatch, training, and workflow efficiency.
Qualifications
- Leads through direct reports, not a player-coach.
- At least $2M in revenue from a service business with at least $5M strongly preferred.
- Commercial or industrial mechanical service leadership fluency in HVAC and plumbing.
- Operating-system builders with pricing guardrails, ticket QA, billing controls, KPI cadences, and accountability structures.
- Proven, measurable improvement in gross margin and billing precision in a service environment.
- Compensation design with designed or redesigned technician compensation to drive productivity and documentation quality.
- Technology fluency with practical tools that improve service outcomes.
Preferred Skills
- Experience leading a service business inside a larger construction or mechanical organization.
- Ability to grow a PM contract base and build a recurring-revenue engine.
- Background in EOS, Traction, or a similar structured operating framework.
- Familiarity with service field-management platforms (ServiceTitan, FieldConnect, FieldEdge, BuildOps, or comparable).
- Experience presenting financial and operational performance to executive leadership.
Pay and Benefits
Pay range and compensation package
Base salary: $160,000–$180,000;
Note: Total target compensation (base + performance bonus): $227,000–$256,000.
Variable pay tied to departmental and company net margin with no ceiling above target.
3 weeks PTO + 6 paid holidays
401(k) with 4% company match
Medical & dental: 100% of premiums paid for employees and family
Optional: vision, short- and long-term disability, accident insurance, hospital indemnity
Employer-paid life insurance
Vehicle allowance + cell phone reimbursement
Uncapped professional development budget executive education, leadership programs, industry conferences
Loyalty bonus program