Company Overview

Founded in 2000, Walker-Miller Energy Services is a Detroit-based, core-values driven company committed to changing lives through energy efficiency. We create and manage customized energy waste reduction programs that help electric, and gas utilities meet mandated energy savings goals.

Our experience driven philosophy of energy efficiency as economic development helps families and businesses save energy and save money. Through innovative, inclusive initiatives, we help build communities by creating local jobs, producing equitable energy savings for all rate payers, and spurring the growth of diverse local businesses.

Our operating philosophy is reflected in our core values. We refer to them as BEHIVE:

B - Boldly Go

E - Embrace Equity

H - Humble Confidence

I - Inclusive Stewardship

V - Value Reputation

E - Extraordinary Experience

Position Summary: The Energy Engineering Supervisor leads the energy engineering team and oversees technical operations across commercial, industrial, and residential energy efficiency programs. This role provides technical direction, develops staff, and ensures engineering analyses, savings calculations, reports, recommendations, and customer support are accurate, timely, consistent, and compliant.

Essential Responsibilities: The responsibilities listed below are not all-inclusive and may be modified or expanded by management as needed.

Embrace, operate, and lead within our core values.
Demonstrate, and lead by example through the organization's core values, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, safety, and continuous improvement.
Supervise, coach, and provide technical leadership to engineering staff while managing workloads, assignments, priorities, and resources to ensure projects are completed efficiently and on schedule.
Serve as the primary technical resource for the engineering team, providing guidance on complex energy efficiency measures, custom projects, savings calculations, engineering analyses, and technical challenges.
Track engineering metrics, project status, productivity, workload balance, quality, and timelines; use data to prioritize work, make timely decisions, and ensure individual and team goals are achieved.
Identify and resolve operational challenges, resource constraints, project execution issues, and technical escalations through root-cause analysis, clear direction, and cross-functional coordination.
Provide advanced expertise in energy-consuming equipment and systems, including lighting, HVAC, hot water, compressed air, refrigeration, manufacturing processes, building envelopes, and integrated system design. Evaluate impacts on utility consumption and demand to recommend cost-effective measures that maximize energy savings, while considering costs and operational impacts.
Review and approve engineering analyses, savings calculations, technical reports, incentive applications, and project documentation to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with program requirements, industry standards, and technical reference manuals.
Manage team performance through regular one-on-one meetings, evaluations, goal setting, and development planning; identify skill gaps and implement targeted training to strengthen technical and leadership capabilities.
Establish clear expectations for technical quality, accountability, ownership, collaboration, and professional conduct; address performance concerns and resolve conflicts promptly.
Develop and coordinate onboarding, mentoring, technical workshops, and knowledge-sharing activities that build engineering capability and support continuous staff
Support recruiting, hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning to maintain team capability and continuity.
Collaborate with program management, operations, outreach, QA/QC, implementation contractors, utility clients, and leadership to align resources, resolve issues, communicate risks and milestones, and support successful program delivery.
Support customer engagement activities by providing technical consultations, participating in customer meetings, conducting site visits, presenting technical findings, and helping customers identify energy-saving opportunities.