Director, Grid Resilience Services

Overview

We are designing the grid of the future! EPE is seeking a technically driven and strategically minded Director, Grid Resilience Services to establish, coordinate and lead a grid resilience consulting services offering that strengthens and augments EPE’s Utilities’ consulting services.

Responsibilities

• Industry Leadership and External Engagement
• Monitor and assess the evolving grid resilience landscape across utilities, regulators, federal agencies, research institutions, and industry organizations.
• Work with EPE leadership and external stakeholders to help shape industry thinking around resilience definitions, metrics, and evaluation frameworks.
• Engage with clients, DOE, national laboratories, NARUC, and other relevant bodies to advance practical approaches for resilience assessment and decision-making.
• Represent EPE in strategic industry forums, workshops, working groups, and thought leadership initiatives.
• Develop EPE’s perspective on resilience metrics analogous to established reliability frameworks, while recognizing the technical and regulatory complexity of resilience measurement.
• Market Analysis and Service Line Development
• Perform structured market analysis to identify resilience-related client needs, competitive offerings, whitespace opportunities, and adjacent market segments.
• Assess which resilience products and services EPE should develop, refine, or expand based on market demand, technical fit, and growth potential.
• Identify priority offerings across advisory, planning, analytics, compliance, grid modernization, DER/microgrid resilience, emergency preparedness, hardening, restoration strategy, and related domains as appropriate.
• Evaluate competitor positioning, customer pain points, procurement trends, and partnership opportunities that inform EPE’s go-to-market strategy.
• Technical Strategy and Capability Design
• Work with EPE leaders to define the technical approach, delivery model, and operating structure for resilience services.
• Identify required internal subject matter expertise, staffing needs, capability gaps, and resource priorities.
• Recommend strategic partnerships, subcontractor relationships, technology collaborators, and potential acquisition targets where needed to accelerate capability buildout.
• Help define methodologies, tools, frameworks, and quality standards that will underpin EPE’s resilience offerings.
• Collaborate across engineering, commercial, and leadership teams to ensure offerings are technically credible, differentiated, and scalable.
• Business Development and Growth Planning
• Develop a 12–18 month roadmap to establish market presence, generate qualified pipeline, and convert opportunities into booked and won work.
• Create an execution plan that aligns business development, thought leadership, client engagement, partnerships, and solution development activities.
• Support opportunity identification, strategic pursuits, proposal positioning, and client relationship development tied to resilience services.
• Establish milestones, leading indicators, and commercial priorities that support meaningful revenue growth.
• Long-Term Business Planning
• Lead development of a 5-year business model for EPE’s resilience practice in collaboration with peers and leadership.
• Define growth scenarios, capability investments, organizational implications, service evolution, and commercialization priorities.
• Recommend how resilience offerings should scale across markets, client segments, and adjacent solution areas.
• Outreach, Communication and Value Capture
• Work with subject matter experts to develop white papers, technical reports and presentations to communicate EPE’s Grid Resilience services and offerings in support of industry needs.
• Work with marketing to position EPE’s existing and emerging capabilities and support go-to-market strategy for EPE’s comprehensive service offerings.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in the electric power sector including experience in resilience planning, reliability planning, regulatory compliance, regulatory utility needs, transmission and distribution planning
• Proven track record of successful R&D
• Proven track record of launching successful technical services
• Proven ability to lead technical and sales teams
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Independent critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
• Team player skills with ability to build and maintain internal and external relationships.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, excellent business, and technical writing.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.