Available Position (Company name withheld)

National Energy Practice Lead – Nuclear

Location: Remote – United States
Employment Type: Full-Time
Reports To: Chief Operating Officer
Base Salary: $175,000–$225,000 + significant performance-based bonus opportunity
Travel: As needed to develop client relationships, pursue opportunities, support project delivery, and represent Connico, in addition to normal company meetings and industry events

Bring Your Energy Relationships, Experience, and Vision. Build What’s Next at Connico.

Connico is seeking an accomplished nuclear/Energy leader to establish, grow, and lead our national Energy Practice, initially focused on commercial nuclear and advanced nuclear.

This is a rare opportunity for someone who has already developed meaningful industry relationships, market credibility, and technical expertise and is ready to use that experience to help shape a new practice with lasting impact.

You will help determine the clients we pursue, the opportunities we prioritize, the services and capabilities we develop, the work we deliver, and ultimately the team that supports the Practice.

This is a true seller-doer and practice-building role: someone who can develop relationships and create business while remaining closely connected to the successful leadership and delivery of the work.

Why Connico? Why This Opportunity?

Connico offers an unusual combination: the opportunity to build and shape a new practice within an established, financially stable national consulting firm, with experienced technical resources, an existing client base, and a strong backlog of client work already in place.

The National Energy Practice Lead will have direct access to executive leadership and meaningful influence over the clients we pursue, the opportunities we prioritize, the capabilities we develop, and the future team supporting the Practice.

At Connico, leadership is close to the work and individual impact is visible. Our culture combines high expectations and accountability with collaboration, professional growth, respect for people, and recognition that work is not the only thing that matters.

For the right person, this is a chance to turn the relationships, credibility, and experience you’ve built over your career into a defining next chapter - one where the work reflects your ideas, judgment, and leadership.

What You’ll Own

Client Relationships & Business Growth

• Build and expand trusted relationships with Energy-sector clients, partners, industry leaders, and senior decision-makers.
• Use market knowledge and existing relationships to identify client needs, open strategic opportunities, and develop profitable new business.
• Build and manage a qualified pipeline of Energy opportunities.
• Develop strategic accounts and identify opportunities for new work, expanded services, and long-term client relationships.
• Lead opportunity qualification, pursuit strategy, scope development, proposals, pricing strategy, interviews, and negotiations.
• Serve as a senior Connico representative and trusted advisor in client, industry, and business-development settings.

• Help define and execute Connico’s Energy-market strategy, initially focused on commercial and advanced nuclear.
• Evaluate market needs, client priorities, competitive dynamics, and emerging opportunities.
• Determine where Connico should focus, invest, and build capability as the Practice develops.
• Identify the services, partnerships, resources, and expertise required for sustainable growth.
• Establish Practice goals, priorities, performance measures, and longer-term growth strategy.
• Help recruit, develop, and mentor dedicated Energy resources as the Practice expands.

• Lead Energy engagements from scope development through successful execution.
• Personally contribute within your areas of technical expertise while leveraging Connico’s existing multidisciplinary resources.
• Develop technical approaches, work plans, staffing strategies, deliverables, schedules, and fee requirements.
• Lead client meetings, executive discussions, technical reviews, and presentations.
• Confidently explain and defend assumptions, methodologies, findings, risks, and recommendations.
• Provide senior technical review, quality oversight, and practical solutions to complex project challenges.

• Maintain accountability for the business, financial, client, technical, and delivery performance of the Energy Practice.
• Monitor revenue growth, pipeline, forecasting, profitability, project performance, client satisfaction, quality, and other agreed-upon performance measures.
• Ensure growth remains aligned with Connico’s ability to successfully staff, execute, and deliver the work.
• Develop a Practice that creates lasting value for both Connico and its clients.

• Significant professional credibility within commercial nuclear, advanced nuclear, or closely related Energy infrastructure.
• Established Energy-sector relationships with relevant decision-makers and evidence of using trusted relationships to create opportunities, grow accounts, advance strategic initiatives, or otherwise contribute to business growth.
• Experience building or materially expanding a market, practice, team, capability, service, client portfolio, or business initiative.
• Strong Project Controls or major-project credibility, with deep expertise in at least one relevant area such as Cost Estimating, Scheduling, Constructability, Project Controls, Project Management, Program Management, or complex capital-project delivery.
• Sufficient technical breadth to scope, lead, coordinate, and defend multidisciplinary work with sophisticated clients.
• Experience leading complex Energy, infrastructure, or capital-project engagements.
• Strong business judgment, communication, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-development skills.
• Ability to operate credibly with executive-level clients and industry leaders.
• Ability to lead through influence across multidisciplinary teams and an established organization.
• Entrepreneurial mindset combined with accountability for profitable, sustainable growth.
• Ability and willingness to travel as needed.
• Must reside in the United States.

• Commercial nuclear owners/operators or major nuclear programs
• Advanced or new nuclear initiatives
• Consulting, engineering, EPC, construction, program management, or owner/operator environments
• Strategic account development, capture, or business-development leadership
• Building or expanding a new market, practice, service line, capability, or business unit
• Financial or P&L responsibility
• Strategic partnerships or teaming relationships
• Adjacent Energy or major power-infrastructure markets

Compensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $175,000–$225,000, depending on the combination and depth of Energy-industry relationships, business-development capability, practice-building experience, technical leadership, and other job-related qualifications.

In addition to base salary, this position includes a significant performance-based bonus opportunity, with the potential for additional compensation to grow as Connico’s Energy Practice develops.

About Connico
Connico is a national construction consultancy providing Cost Estimating, Scheduling/Phasing, Constructability, Project Management, Program Management, and related consulting services for complex capital projects.

For more than 36 years, we have built our business around exceptional work, responsive client service, long-standing relationships, and professionals who are trusted to think, lead, and solve difficult problems.

Our six Core Values - Respect, Resiliency, Integrity, Innovation, Inclusivity, and Thoughtfulness - guide how we work with our clients and each other.

If you have the nuclear/Energy relationships, market credibility, technical expertise, and drive to help shape Connico’s next area of growth, we would like to talk.

Recruiting Agencies: Connico is managing this search directly and is not accepting unsolicited agency submissions or candidate representations for this position.