Co-Head of Engineering
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Posted 100d ago
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We have tracked this listing since 18 Oct 2026 (14 days). The employer's own board has carried it every time we have read it, most recently just now.
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Remote
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The listing
The Co-Head is a client-facing principal who brings established, senior-level relationships within major health systems and universities — including at their current clients — and who knows how to cultivate those relationships into long-term partnerships. They translate an owner's mission, financial constraints, and campus master plan into multi-decade infrastructure and decarbonization strategies, and they earn the trust of C-suite and facilities leadership through candor, reliability, and demonstrable results.
This role is structured for a vesting co-owner of the business. The Co-Head of Engineering should expect to hold and vest into equity in Oakwell and to think and act like an owner — investing in the firm's people, reputation, and long-term enterprise value rather than in any single project, and comfortably leading other leaders.
Key Responsibilities
Practice Leadership & Ownership- Co-lead the engineering practice with firm leadership, setting technical strategy, staffing, and standards across the mechanical, electrical, and energy disciplines.
- Operate as a vesting co-owner — accountable for the practice's profitability, growth, and long-term enterprise value, and personally invested in Oakwell's reputation and people.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop senior engineers and discipline leads, building succession and deepening the firm's technical bench.
- Serve as the senior technical relationship owner for Oakwell's largest hospital and university clients, engaging C-suite and facilities leadership directly.
- Shape multi-decade infrastructure-renewal and decarbonization strategies aligned with each owner's mission, financial constraints, and campus master plan.
- Represent Oakwell in high-stakes pursuits, presentations, and negotiations, converting senior relationships into long-term partnerships.
- Own the firm's QA/QC program, ensuring reports, drawings, specifications, and analyses meet Oakwell's higher technical standard before issuance.
- Establish and maintain the MEP building and sustainability standards used across client engagements.
- Provide senior technical review and final engineering judgment on the firm's most complex and highest-risk projects.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or a related engineering discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- 20+ years of progressive engineering experience, including significant experience serving hospital and/or university clients.
- Established, senior-level relationships at current healthcare and/or higher-education clients.
- Professional Engineering (PE) license.
- Demonstrated experience leading other leaders and running an engineering team, practice, or firm.
- Readiness and desire to become a vesting co-owner of the business.
- Availability to travel as needed.
What Makes You a Great Oakwell Teammate
- Owner First: you engineer in service of the owner's mission and long-term success, and you set that tone for the entire practice.
- Accountability Without Excuses: you do what you say you will do and hold your leaders to the same standard.
- Systems Thinking: you solve problems at the root, balancing sustainability, resiliency, cost, and operational reality across a portfolio.
Benefits & Perks
Medical, dental & vision · Company-paid life and short/long-term disability insurance · HSA + medical and dependent-care FSAs · Voluntary accident & critical-illness coverage · 401(k) with company match · paid company holidays and PTO · Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Location & compensation
Remote, with travel as needed. Preference given to candidates residing within or near Boston, MA. Competitive compensation plus executive benefits.
Oakwell is an E-Verify and equal-opportunity employer.