Commercial Energy Consultant

Commercial Energy Consultant

Help Businesses Save Money While Building Your Career

Looking for a career where your attitude, work ethic, and people skills matter more than your previous experience? Universal Energy Solutions is hiring motivated individuals to join our Pittsburgh team as Commercial Energy Consultants. Whether you're just starting your career, changing industries, or looking for a fresh opportunity, this entry-level position is designed for people who enjoy working with others and want to build a successful career helping local businesses.

No previous sales experience? No problem.

As a Commercial Energy Consultant, you'll meet with local business owners to review their electricity and natural gas supply plans, identify opportunities to reduce energy costs, and recommend competitive supplier options that best fit their business needs. We'll provide the training, coaching, and mentorship to help you succeed.

Why This Is a Great Place to Start Your Career

Many companies expect you to have experience before they'll give you an opportunity. We believe great consultants are developed through training, coaching, and real-world experience.

During your first several weeks, you'll focus on developing new customer relationships while learning our proven customer consultation process alongside experienced mentors. From your first day of training, we'll help build confidence, strengthen your communication skills, and teach you a proven customer consultation process that's helped many of our team members build successful careers.

As you gain experience, you'll have opportunities to take on larger customer portfolios, build long-term client relationships, and advance into Account Manager and other leadership positions. We're committed to promoting from within as part of our goal to continually expand into 20+ additional markets over the next few years.

What You'll Do

• Meet face-to-face with business owners and decision-makers.
• Review current electricity and natural gas supply plans.
• Help businesses identify opportunities to reduce their energy costs.
• Recommend competitive energy supplier options based on each customer's needs.
• Build relationships with prospective commercial customers.
• Learn our proven customer consultation process alongside experienced mentors.
• Travel throughout an assigned territory (typically within a 30-mile radius of the office).
• Build the skills needed to take on larger customer portfolios and advance your career.

Is This a Good Fit for You?

This role is perfect for people who enjoy working with others, solving problems, and helping businesses make informed decisions. Many of our top performers started in restaurants, retail, hospitality, customer service, athletics, or other customer-facing roles where they learned how to communicate, solve problems, and build relationships. If you're competitive, coachable, self-motivated, and willing to learn, we'll provide the training and support to help you succeed.

Compensation

We offer two compensation paths designed to support both new and experienced professionals.

Base Pay + Commission - ideal for those beginning their careers

• Weekly base pay while you learn and build confidence
• Tier 1 commissions on new accounts (capped)

Commission-Only - ideal for experienced professionals

• Tier 2 commissions on new accounts (uncapped)
• Qualified to earn residual commission on accounts you manage and retain

Typical On Target Earnings for Consultants are in the range $55,000$70,000, with Top Performers exceeding $100k+ in their first year.

Paid Training & Career Development

During your first 2 weeks, we provide Paid Training as you work closely with experienced mentor to learn our customer consultation process, build confidence, and develop the skills needed for long-term success. As you progress in your career, we'll committed to provide continual career training and development in the areas of leadership, business management, and finances. Our goal isn't simply to help you meet with your first customerit's to help you build a successful career.

About Universal Energy Solutions

Universal Energy Solutions helps businesses reduce their energy costs by connecting them with competitive electricity and natural gas supplier programs. UES Careers is the recruiting arm of Universal Energy Solutions, supporting hiring across our growing nationwide network of independently owned and operated offices.