at DNV in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Electrical Engineering- Team Lead
Location
US-OR-Portland | US-TX-Austin | US-WA-Seattle | US-TX-Katy | US-CA-Oakland | US-CA-San Diego | US-MA-Medford | US-IL-Oak Brook | US-ME-Portland
Requisition ID
2023-20711
Business Area
Energy Systems
Category/Discipline
Engineering
Posting Position Type
Permanent Employee
Local Unit & Position Description
Are you passionate about renewable energy and looking to expand your impact?
DNV's Energy Transition Outlook predicts that we will exhaust the 1.5-degree carbon budget in 2028. How will you spend your next 5 years making a measurable impact on climate change mitigation?
Are you an electrical engineer with significant experience in wind engineering, high voltage transmission, or development of renewable energy projects?
DNV 's Renewables & Power Grids team is seeking an Electrical Engineering Team Lead. The Team Lead is a customer facing engineer responsible for leading and growing DNV's Electrical Engineering (EE) practice serving the renewables industry. DNV is seeking an enthusiastic, nimble, and entrepreneurial engineer interested in leading and rapidly growing a team of world class electrical engineers.
The DNV EE team provides the following services in all renewables including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, energy storage and microgrid, and high voltage transmission: Owner's engineering, including preliminary design, and third party design review of electrical plans, specifications, calculations, and studies; interconnection services including grid interconnection studies and applications, technical due diligence of new construction and repowering, including construction monitoring, in support of project financing, for developers, lenders, investors, and buy/sell mergers and acquisitions. Our teams apply significant experience in regulatory issues as applied in interconnection, grid operations, and transmission planning. Specifically, this team is increasing both competence and revenue in offshore wind and onshore transmission project support.
DNV is looking for a dynamic individual with great communication skills, ability to develop strong relationships with internal Project Managers as well as with Customers to solve their technoeconomic challenges when designing and constructing a project. The ideal candidate will have diverse experience in design, construction, interconnection, and repowering of utility scale renewable energy projects, and will be eager to support growing a business with an entrepreneurial spirit and day to day team lead responsibilities (operations support management) of a high energy and nimble team. DNV's electrical engineering practice areas are split approximately 70% third party review technical due diligence, and the remaining 30% on design, electrical studies, interconnection application and other development support activities, with plans to grow to approximately 50% support of technical due diligence and 50% on electrical engineering design and owner's engineering.
Why should you work with us?
Within DNV's Renewables and Power Grids group and organizational culture, how we collectively influence the world for future generations matters deeply to us. Our team works every day to increase the widespread deployment and operation of renewables to address climate change and positively impact society; endeavors to achieve our purpose through the success of our customers; and strives to be high-performing and innovative. Our approach reflects the equity, respect, and diversity we wish to see in the world.
This position may be based in any location within the continental United States.
What You'll Do
Identifying new services, grow, maintain, and enhance company expertise in onshore and offshore wind power, high voltage transmission, and emerging technologies such as electric vehicles and hydrogen
Acting as advisor and first escalation path on the electrical team's projects, coordinating and supervising work by junior personnel, other company divisions, and subcontractors
Anticipating project issues and leading customers and a team in developing appropriate resolutions
Occasionally conducting the team's more complex site visits, inspections, construction monitoring, and failure investigation
Process, procedure, and aid development relating to electrical review of wind, transmission, and emerging technologies project documentation
Interfacing with clients, their counterparties and legal counsel to discuss project product risk and mitigation
Responsible for business development activities, identifying opportunities in the local market maintaining the required network of contacts, and providing key market
intelligence to help develop services according to the local industry needs
Self-starter, able to generate and contract new business, manage projects entirely
independently, train and develop junior staff, manage sensitive and... For full info follow application link.
