Energy & Utility Consulting Manager – Renewables

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead strategic planning consulting initiatives, encompassing assessments of market, technology, and policy.

• Oversee and contribute to economic and cost analyses, risk evaluations, and contracting strategies for projects.

• Manage technical due diligence and owner’s engineering evaluations for energy and power initiatives.

• Offer program and project management support to clients, focusing on enhancing governance, business processes, controls, and stakeholder alignment.

• Collaborate with Sargent & Lundy’s technical teams to formulate conceptual plans that address client requirements.

• Develop and deliver project implementation strategies and plans to client executives and project teams.

• Convert complex technical findings into clear, client-ready presentations and detailed reports.

• Direct individual workstreams within broader client engagements.

• Coordinate daily tasks for junior team members, offer technical guidance, and manage hours while adhering to budget and scope.

• Enhance staff skills through training and mentorship.

• Participate in business development, proposal creation, and fostering client relationships.

• Assist clients in defining and executing strategies for power projects while improving operations across utility planning, new generation portfolio development, grid modernization, and new energy campus planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• We do not provide sponsorship for work authorization in the U.S. for this position.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering (consideration may be given to other engineering disciplines or finance/economics).

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in the power sector.

• Proficiency and technical knowledge across various power generation technologies, inclusive of conventional and renewable sources.

• Experience in managing teams of engineers and/or consultants.

• Previous management consulting or advisory background with a consulting firm, advisory practice, or consulting role within an engineering firm or energy company, which includes direct client interaction and accountability for analytical outputs.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with electric or gas utilities, independent power producers, project developers, grid operators, or energy investors.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with comfort in working with quantitative models, extensive data sets, and financial or economic analyses.

• Proven track record of producing clear, well-structured deliverables (Excel models, PowerPoint presentations, and written reports) and effectively communicating complex topics to non-technical audiences.

• Experience leading client meetings, workshops, or presentations; comfort in engaging directly with client stakeholders.

• Ability to juggle multiple tasks and deadlines in a dynamic, project-based consulting environment.

• High level of initiative, ownership, and accountability, with a history of delivering quality work products with minimal supervision.

• Valued but not required: expertise in technical due diligence and owner’s engineering design evaluations of power projects.

• Valued but not required: knowledge of power plant operations and performance, including key operational and financial metrics.

• Valued but not required: understanding of electric utility business models, planning processes, and operational practices.

• Valued but not required: experience with economic evaluations, cost analyses, and contract creation (e.g., PPAs, EPC contracts, O&M agreements).

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision health plans

• Life & Accident Insurance

• Disability Coverage

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Back-Up Daycare

• FSA & HSA

• 401(k)

• Pre-Tax Commuter Account

• Merit Scholarship Program

• Employee Discount Program

• Corporate Charitable Giving Program

• Tuition Assistance

• First Professional Licensure Bonus

• Employee Referral Bonus

• Paid Annual Personal/Sick Time (PST)

• Paid Vacation

• Paid Holidays

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Bereavement Leave

• Flexible Work Arrangements

• Yearly discretionary bonus eligibility