Co-Head of Engineering

🕒 July 27

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Oakwell

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

🏠 Real Estate

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

Real Estate • Healthcare • Education

Oakwell is a real estate and infrastructure firm that provides capital, engineering, and project delivery services to healthcare systems and higher education institutions. The company delivers custom campus energy and real estate solutions — including engineering (MEP, assessment, commissioning, energy modeling), transparent project delivery and construction management, and tax-exempt and alternative financing (Energy-as-a-Service, P3, C-PACE, embedded/shared savings). Oakwell emphasizes mission-aligned, profit-at-risk project delivery and sustainability (GHG accounting, reporting, efficiency), and reports having freed up over $670M in client capital through 150+ projects. Its focus is turning campus infrastructure and real estate from a financial drain into a strategic, mission-supporting asset for hospitals and universities.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• 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)