Vice President of Operations
Good Carbon Co.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Buffalo • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $185,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own end-to-end execution performance across Development, Construction, and Property Management, with full accountability for schedule, budget, quality, compliance, and margins
- Lead, develop, and hold accountable senior operational leaders; build scalable teams, systems, and succession depth
- Establish and enforce standardized operating processes, metrics, scorecards, and reporting to ensure predictable portfolio-level outcomes
- Partner with Finance to set budgets and margin targets; hold division leaders accountable as P&L owners
- Ensure disciplined handoffs from Development through Construction to stabilized operations, meeting industry-grade technical and financial standards
- Drive construction excellence across cost control, scheduling, quality, safety, subcontractor performance, and compliance
- Ensure property management operations deliver strong resident experience, stabilization, and funding-compliant tenant operations
- Operationalize compliance with tax credits, incentives, loan covenants, and subsidy programs in partnership with Finance and Legal
- Integrate energy systems and products into design, construction, commissioning, and ongoing operations
- Champion consistent use of Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) tools within Operations, ensuring leaders apply disciplines to drive accountability, clarity, and execution
Requirements
- 10+ years leading operations in real estate development, construction, or residential asset operations
- Demonstrated experience owning enterprise-level operational outcomes, including delivery performance, budgets, and margins across multiple operating units
- Experience overseeing compliance for tax credits, incentives, or lender covenants, in partnership with Finance and Legal teams
- Experience enforcing subcontractor certification/compliance (prevailing wage, domestic content, commissioning) and tenant qualification/verification systems
- Proven track record of building, upgrading, and holding senior leaders accountable, including making difficult talent decisions when required
- Experience designing and scaling operating organizations, systems, and processes to reduce key-person risk and enable growth
- Proven ability to stabilize and optimize existing operations while creating capacity for growth, including repeatable frameworks for launching new initiatives or entering new markets
- Working knowledge of energy incentives, domestic-content rules, and historic tax credit processes, or demonstrated experience partnering closely with teams that manage monetization preferred
- Demonstrated experience integrating energy systems (geothermal, battery, insulation) into design, construction, and operations, translating technical requirements into procurement and O&M processes preferred
- No immigration or work visa sponsorship will be provided for this position.
Benefits
- Employer-contributed medical and dental insurance
- Vision coverage
- Company 401(k) contributions
- Paid holidays and PTO-including your birthday!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
budget managementP&L ownershipcompliance oversightsubcontractor certificationoperational performanceenergy systems integrationconstruction managementproperty managementprocess designrisk management
Soft Skills
leadershipteam buildingaccountabilitycommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingdecision-makingcollaborationorganizational skillsexecution