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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 Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; San Diego or Oakland, CA; Austin, Houston, or Dallas, TX; Medford, MA; Arlington, VA; New York, NY, 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\n Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)\nMultiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits\nSpending accounts - FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA\nEmployer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace\n401(k) with company match\nCompany provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits\nEducation reimbursement program\nFlexible work schedule with hybrid opportunities\nCharitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program\nVolunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company \nCareer advancement opportunities\n**Benefits vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election**\nFor California, Washington, New York, Washington, D.C., Illinois, and Maryland: “DNV provides a reasonable range of compensation for this role. The actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. For the states of California, Washington, New York, Washington, D.C., Illinois, and Maryland only, the starting pay range for this role is $155,000.00 - $200,000.00.”\nDNV is a proud equal-opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, or business need, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.\nDNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. US applicants with a physical or mental disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact the North America Recruitment Department (). Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.\nFor more information\nhttps://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal\nWhat is Required\nBachelor’s degree from accredited four-year university in a relevant field to include engineering, science, thermal generation, renewable energy, finance, business or other related areas.\n\nTypically, 10+ years of applicable technical advisory, commercial leadership, and complex project management experience in the thermal, solar, wind, storage, and/or energy infrastructure in North America. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) experience is preferred but not required.\n\nKnowledge of the energy project lifecycle and associated items which may include project contracts (EPC, equipment procurement, interconnection, PPA, etc.), technology and design, energy production assessments and performance, financial modeling and economics (CapEx and OpEx), operations and performance, transmission/curtailment considerations, and common technical risks.\n\nDemonstrated success leading the execution of large, complex, and time-sensitive due diligence engagements involving multiple technologies, disciplines, stakeholders, and competing transaction priorities.\n\nDemonstrated leadership to adopt, test, and improve digital and AI-enabled delivery tools, including using project experience to help translate workflows into scalable methods, templates, and quality controls.\n\nDemonstrated ability to provide senior-level technical and commercial judgment on critical decisions and to distinguish issues material to investment strategy from ordinary technical observations.\n\nDemonstrated success directing the commercial performance of complex engagements, including budget, margin, invoicing, scope control, change orders, and strategic customer positioning.\n\nDemonstrated success leading proposals, shaping scopes for complex transactions, and contributing to account or pipeline growth.\n\nExperience mentoring project managers or technical professionals and providing quality or sponsor-level oversight across multiple engagements.\n\nProficiency in MS Office Suite.\n\nAbility to travel domestically and internationally to customer offices and sites, other office locations, and conferences, up to approximately 15% of the time.\n\nExcellent verbal and written communications skills in English.\n\nWe conduct pre-employment drug and background screening\n*Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are not available for this position*\nPersonal 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