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The successful candidate will combine complex project delivery leadership with account growth, commercial ownership, and team capability development. Join us!\nOur M&A team operates at the cutting edge of the energy industry providing technical due diligence and advisory services to diverse customers in the North American market and beyond, primarily in support of M&A transactions such as purchases, sales, divestments, and capital raises of projects and platforms. Our technical work contributes to the efficient functioning of the equity markets which are increasingly driving energy transactions in North America.\nIn this role, you will lead the most complex, high-value M&A engagements, serving as a trusted advisor on critical transaction decisions and a senior escalation point for customers and project teams facing complex technical, commercial, or delivery challenges. You will provide senior-level project management and technical advisory services, exercise judgment across technical, commercial, and delivery trade-offs, grow key customer relationships, serve as Project Sponsor or senior reviewer for selected engagements, develop Senior Project Managers (SPMs), Project Managers (PMs), and Associate Project Managers (APMs), and translate experience into repeatable methods, tools, and best practices.\nIdeally, this position can be based out of any of our current advisory offices including Toronto, Calgary, or Montreal, Canada, presenting a dynamic hybrid schedule where employees will typically spend three (3) days per week working from either a DNV office or client location/site.\nWhat you'll do\nLead the most complex, high-risk, multi-discipline and multi-technology due diligence engagements, acting as the senior point of contact accountable for scope, schedule, budget, quality, customer confidence, and commercial outcomes. Identify technical risks and opportunities associated with potential investments, synthesize key findings, and clearly communicate their transaction implications to customers.\n\nLeverage experience, expertise, and creative thought to deliver customer-centric technical analysis for energy and infrastructure projects. Typical scopes include evaluation of project risks and upside potential through:\nReview of key project contracts describing interconnection, revenue, construction, and operations and maintenance;\n\nValidation of technical inputs in project financial models including estimation and review of construction and operating costs;\n\nReview of project designs and technologies;\n\nOperational evaluations including site inspections and interviews (both on-site and virtual), and review of operating history and asset management approach; and\n\nIndustry benchmarking analyses and development stage project screening studies.\n\nServe as Project Sponsor on major engagements, providing senior oversight for due diligence execution, prioritizing QHSE considerations, ensuring alignment among transaction strategy, customer priorities, and quality expectations, and serving as the escalation point for the most complex technical and commercial project decisions.\n\nLead and coordinate technical reviews among internal specialists, including civil and electrical engineering, energy assessment, technology, transmission, permitting teams, and other DNV disciplines; establish clear accountabilities and resolve cross-discipline delivery issues.\n\nDirect and provide senior-level review of the analyses most material to investment decisions, including contract and financial model review, technology, design, energy assessments, operating performance, and other complex technical matters with emphasis on the issues most material to the transaction\n\nResolve technical issues in partnership with transaction stakeholders, including coordination of input on such issues from internal technical specialists, as necessary.\n\nProvide final review and approval of major deliverables, ensuring that findings are technically rigorous, decision-useful, aligned with client context, and communicated with clarity and credibility.\n\nLead customer dialogues to understand their needs. Develop winning proposals for scopes of services related to due diligence work, including creative tailoring and sequencing of work to meet budget and timeline requirements. Identify opportunities for innovation and refinement to meet the needs of an evolving marketplace.\n\nSupport priority customers through transaction execution, investment committee decisions, financing, and closing (as applicable), while strengthening long-term, high-value relationships and DNV’s position as a strategic partner.\n\nDefine and champion improvements to methodologies, delivery approaches, digital tools, and service offerings that enhance quality, consistency, scalability, and customer value across the M&A practice.\n\nPartner with account leadership to develop and execute customer engagement strategies for priority accounts, identifying opportunities to expand relationships, anticipate customer needs, and strengthen DNV's market position.\n\nServe as a recognized leader within the M&A practice by contributing to talent development, service-line evolution, strategic hiring priorities, thought leadership, and cross-functional collaboration across DNV.\n\nAdhere to the DNV system for quality management, including liaising with QHSE leadership on developing procedures, instructions, guidelines, and checklists in order to ensure quality of services produced by the M&A team.\n\nMentor SPMs, PMs, and APMs through project-based coaching, review, and knowledge sharing; provide input to Team Leads on development needs, project assignments, and readiness for increasingly complex responsibilities.\n\nÊtes-vous prêt à façonner l'avenir de l'énergie en dirigeant des opérations de fusions et acquisitions complexes et à fort impact sur plusieurs technologies énergétiques et en contribuant à développer des comptes clients stratégiques ?\nProspérez-vous à l'intersection de l'expertise technique, du jugement commercial, de l'innovation et de la négociation stratégique, aidant les investisseurs à prendre des décisions plus intelligentes dans un marché de l'énergie en rapide évolution ?\nDNV Energy Systems North America recherche un chef de projet principal possédant une expertise technique et commerciale approfondie dans les technologies énergétiques (par exemple, éolien, solaire, stockage, infrastructures de véhicules électriques, décarbonation, infrastructures intermédiaires, production thermique, centres de données ou autres infrastructures énergétiques émergentes), et/ou une expérience pratique en financement de projets pour notre équipe de services de conseil en fusions et acquisitions. Le candidat retenu combinera un leadership complexe dans la livraison de projets avec la croissance des comptes, la propriété commerciale et le développement des capacités de l'équipe. Rejoignez-nous !\nNotre équipe de fusions et acquisitions opère à la pointe de l'industrie énergétique, fournissant des services de diligence raisonnable technique et de conseil à divers clients sur le marché nord-américain et au-delà, principalement en soutien aux opérations de fusions et acquisitions telles que les achats, les ventes, les cessions et les levées de capitaux de projets et de plateformes. Notre travail technique contribue au bon fonctionnement des marchés actions, qui stimulent de plus en plus les transactions énergétiques en Amérique du Nord.\nDans ce rôle, vous dirigerez les missions de fusions et acquisitions les plus complexes et à forte valeur, en servant de conseiller de confiance sur les décisions de transaction critiques et de point d'escalade senior pour les clients et équipes de projet confrontés à des défis techniques, commerciaux ou de livraison complexes. Vous fournirez des services de gestion de projet et de conseil technique de haut niveau, exercerez votre jugement sur les compromis techniques, commerciaux et de livraison, développerez les relations clés avec les clients, serrez comme sponsor de projet ou évaluateur senior pour certains engagements, développerez des chefs de projet seniors (SPM), des chefs de projet (PM) et des chefs de projet associés (APM), et traduirez votre expérience en méthodes, outils et bonnes pratiques reproductibles.\nIdéalement, ce poste pourrait être basé dans l'un de nos bureaux de conseil actuels, notamment Toronto, Calgary ou Montréal, Canada, avec un emploi du temps hybride dynamique où les employés passent généralement trois (3) jours par semaine à travailler soit depuis un bureau DNV, soit depuis un site/site client.\nCe que tu vas faire\nDiriger les engagements de due diligence les plus complexes, à haut risque, multidisciplinaires et multi-technologies, agissant en tant que point de contact principal responsable de la portée, du calendrier, du budget, de la qualité, de la confiance client et des résultats commerciaux. Identifier les risques techniques et opportunités associés aux investissements potentiels, synthétiser les conclusions clés et communiquer clairement leurs implications transactionnelles aux clients.\nMisez à profit de l'expérience, de l'expertise et de la réflexion créative pour fournir des analyses techniques centrées sur le client pour les projets énergétiques et infrastructures. Les domaines typiques incluent l'évaluation des risques et du potentiel de croissance des projets via :Examen des contrats clés de projet décrivant l'interconnexion, les revenus, la construction, ainsi que l'exploitation et la maintenance ;\nValidation des apports techniques dans les modèles financiers du projet, y compris l'estimation et l'examen des coûts de construction et d'exploitation ;\nExamen des conceptions et technologies de projets ;\nÉvaluations opérationnelles incluant les inspections de site et les entretiens (sur site et virtuellement), ainsi que la revue de l'historique opérationnel et de l'approche de gestion des actifs ; et\nAnalyses de benchmarking sectoriel et études de sélection de projets en phase de développement.\n\nAgir en tant que sponsor de projet sur les grandes missions, assurant la supervision senior de l'exécution de la due diligence, la priorité aux considérations liées au QHSE, assurer l'alignement entre la stratégie transactionnelle, les priorités clients et les attentes en matière de qualité, et servir de point d'escalade pour les décisions techniques et commerciales les plus complexes.\nDiriger et coordonner les revues techniques parmi des spécialistes internes, y compris le génie civil et électrique, l'évaluation énergétique, la technologie, la transmission, les équipes d'autorisation et d'autres disciplines DNV ; 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