Senior Transmission Development Consultant

Local Unit & Position Description

Are you passionate about decarbonization of the grid? Are you excited to enable grid reliably to accommodate renewable energy? You can support us by analyzing projects helping our customers achieving these goals. DNV – Energy’s Energy Advisory group has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Transmission Development Consultant, in its Power System Advisory (PSA) Department. DNV Energy’s PSA team provides creative, cost effective and practical solutions to stakeholders in the power generation, transmission, and distribution systems. The Senior Transmission Development Consultant must demonstrate vision and drive and be passionate about contributing to the growth and evolution of the PSA business in North America. The ideal candidate will be aware of market opportunities where we can differentiate and innovate, and they will manage commercial projects, delivering technical insight and provide customers with excellent customer service. This position will ideally be based out of our Toronto (CA) office.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and coordinate the development of ambitious yet constructible transmission solutions and translate these into winning bids
• Support the growth of existing and new business lines by understanding and clearly communicating DNV’s unique value propositions
• Ensuring that technical analyses are distilled into key takeaways that address a project’s economic value proposition and technical feasibility
• Initiating and coordinating projects across internal specialists (including energy economics, civil, structural, offshore, and electrical engineering, energy assessment, technology experts, permitting, etc.)
• Communicating with clients to provide timely and relevant project updates and deliverables while ensuring milestones are met and expectations are exceeded
• Collaborating with technical specialists to write and peer review reports
• Developing proposals in response to sole-sourced requests or RFPs
• Developing and providing subject matter expertise in select areas
• Participating in continuous improvement efforts for the PSA team, including tool development, process refinement, and lessons-learned activities
• Developing content for blog posts, industry conferences, and client workshops
• Juggling multiple projects and levels of responsibility simultaneously
• Working with a diverse group of talented people to supporting the mission and vision and have some fun while you do it

Position Qualifications

What is Required

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline or related field
• Experience with developing greenfield transmission solutions from origination to basic design in or between ISO regions in North America
• Broad knowledge of the electric industry including recent trends and history, awareness of regulatory proceedings and policies at both the state and national level, including familiarity with RTO/ISO transmission planning standards, and interconnection application processes
• Familiarity with high voltage transmission technology characteristics, state of the art and supply chain (e.g., overhead transmission lines, submarine and underground cables, substations, HVDC converters, offshore transmission, FACTS)
• Experience in performing transmission planning studies with power system simulation software packages such as PSS-E, PSLF, Aspen, PSCAD and/or TARA
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• We conduct pre-employment background screening

What is Preferred

• Experience managing collaborative projects and/or teams and ability to be customer facing
• Excellent at building and maintaining personal and professional relationships, including a desire to coach and mentor junior staff and interact routinely with Customers to build rapport and credibility
• Ability to interpret, analyze, and synthesize technical information and present it clearly and concisely
• Ability to understand your audience and tune your communication styles to suit varying degrees of technical and commercial understanding
• Maintain a customer-focused, consultative approach to projects and customer needs
• Work within expected deadlines, while being adaptive to changing scope or customer needs
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office portfolio of products: Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio
• Advanced degree in relevant engineering or quantitative field
• Proven track record creating thought leadership, such as published journal articles, conference presentations and industry committee/working group participation
• Experience with project management and CRM software tools
• Minimum 5 years of experience in transmission development in the context of engineering, estimation, construction, development, origination, consulting, finance, or project management
• Candidates with experience in:
  • Offshore wind farm export links
  • HVDC transmission links
  • Cross-border transmission projects

*Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are available for this position*

What We Offer

• Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
• Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
• Spending accounts – FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
• Special programs – Employee Assistance Program, ID theft protection, and accident and critical illness options for you and your family
• Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid/remote opportunities
• Advancement opportunities

**Benefits may vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election

How We Do ItWe Care, We Dare, We ShareDNV 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.DNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. US applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact the North America Recruitment department (hrrecruitment.northamerica@dnv.com). Information received relating to accommodations will be addressed confidentially.DNV is proud to announce being named one of Houston’s best places to work in the 2022 Houston Business Journal – Best Places to Work competition.For more informationhttps://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal-posterRead more here

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Company & Business Area Description

DNV is the independent expert in assurance and risk management, operating in more than 100 countries. Through our broad experience and deep expertise, we advance safety and sustainable performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions. We provide assurance to the entire energy value chain through our advisory, monitoring, verification, and certification services. As the world's leading resource of independent energy experts and technical advisors, we help industries and governments to navigate the many complexes, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry. We are committed to realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement and support all stakeholders to transition faster to a deeply decarbonized energy system.