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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 complex, high-value M&A engagements and serve as both a delivery leader and a senior relationship manager for selected strategic customers. 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 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 large, 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\nProvide senior oversight for due diligence execution, prioritizing QHSE considerations and ensuring a safe, healthy work environment across project teams.\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\nPerform and/or provide senior review of due diligence including contract and financial model review as well as other technical analysis (e.g., technology review, contract review, energy assessment), 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\nLead the reporting and quality assurance process, including writing, editing, reviewing, approving, and synthesizing inputs from technical disciplines into clear, technical due diligence reports aligned with customer’s commercial needs.\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 customers through transaction execution, investment committee decisions, financing, and closing, as applicable\n\nLead continuous improvement efforts for the M&A team, such as tool development, process refinement, training, and lessons learned activities.\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 Project Managers and Associate Project Managers 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\nGenerous 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 Career 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 $135,000.00 - $180,000.00.”\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, 7+ years of applicable technical and 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 willingness 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 balance technical, commercial, schedule, and transaction priorities while maintaining a focus on issues most material to investment decisions.\n\nDemonstrated experience owning project financial performance, including budget, margin, invoicing, scope control, and change orders.\n\nDemonstrated 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