Manager/Senior Manager - Technical Advisory(Energy)
About Baringa: We set out to build the world's most trusted consulting firm - creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.
You'll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick - slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.
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Our Power & Low Carbon Solutions practice are looking for an experienced Manager/Senior Manager to help expand their Technical Advisory team. Our clients face the corporate world's biggest challenges while delivering society's most crucial project - the energy transition. We help them shape their decarbonisation strategy, secure their energy needs, invest in future energy technologies, capture market opportunities to reach society's biggest goal.
What you will be doing You will be part of the technical advisory capability within Baringa - working at the heart of the energy transition, advising a broad range of investors, developers and government agencies.
As part of our integrated technical, market, and regulatory advisory team, you will be providing specific technical advice to the clients on how to best optimise the assets, support investment decisions and development of business cases.
Our Energy and Resources team gives our clients unparalleled energy transition expertise and operational insight. We are proud to work with the foremost global and regional energy companies, associations and regulators, investors, developers, lenders and across the energy value chain. Led by a Senior Management Team respected within the industry, we help our clients shape, define and implement change in the energy transition.
Your skills and experience - You will likely have 8-15 years of outstanding professional experience in a Technical Advisory team, combining strong skills in consulting, project delivery, and technical subject matter expertise.
- We will expect you to represent Baringa in a broad range of technology areas and we would like you to have more detailed knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
- Onshore and offshore renewables (e.g. onshore and offshore wind, solar, bio energy), including wind and solar yield assessments
- Energy storage (e.g. battery storage, long-duration storage)
- Other energy infrastructure (e.g. Hydrogen, CCUS)
- Utilities: Transmission and Distribution (including interconnectors and network operators for water, electricity, gas, heat and cooling infrastructure)
- A fundamental required skill is the ability to manage and deliver technical due diligence and advisory projects, which involves understanding energy generation, electrical grid infrastructure and connections, operations, and cost implications. This would include:
- Articulate and present findings, recommendations, and risk assessments relating to energy and infrastructure technology to senior management and clients at the executive levels.
- Manage and deliver technical feasibility studies and opine on risks and opportunities related to infrastructure investments in various sectors, demonstrating experience in at least one of the sub-sectors noted above.
- Train the team to analyse technical documentation, engineering designs, asset management, permits and contracts to identify critical technical aspects and interpret the business plan recommendations.
- You may have experience in assessing operational performance for energy assets; wind or solar yield assessment or operational systems for power infrastructure.
- You have experience developing complex capex,opex, devex cost models in the energy sector.
What a career at Baringa will give youPutting People First. Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
- Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
- Flexible Working: We know that the 'ideal' work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
- Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
- Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We've introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
- Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That's why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don't have any quotas: if you're ready and delivering at the right level, you'll get that promotion.
- Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company's success.
Diversity and Inclusion. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
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