Energy Storage Independent Engineering Project Manager

DNV is seeking a Project Manager to sit in our Toronto, ON, Canada Montreal, QC, Canada or Vancouver, BC Canada offices.

This role would be serving our Independent Engineering (IE) team within the Energy Storage Engineering (ESE) team.

The purpose of this role is to support major customer accounts, lead project due diligence, advise clients of energy storage industry best practices, manage projects, contribute to process improvements, share knowledge, obtain and receive feedback, and a bit of business development including developing proposals.

What You’ll Do

• Initiating and coordinating the technical review process among internal specialists (including civil and electrical engineering, energy assessment, technology experts, permitting, battery safety, contract reviews,
• Communicating with clients to provide timely and relevant project updates and deliverables while ensuring milestones are met and expectations are exceeded
• Perform overall project management activities and ensuring excellent customer communication
• Building business with existing and new clients by demonstrating DNV’s value and developing proposals in response to sole sourced requests or RFPs
• Participating in continuous improvement efforts for the ESE team, including tool development, process refinement, and lessons learned activities
• Performing portions of the due diligence reviews, including contract and financial model (OPEX and CAPEX) reviews
• Developing content for blog posts, industry conferences, and client workshops
• Juggling multiple projects and levels of responsibility simultaneously
• Converting with vague and incomplete information into well-informed, risk-mitigated conclusions
• Working with a diverse group of fun and talented people
• Collaborating with technical specialists to write and peer review due diligence reports
• Coordinating construction and operational monitoring by DNV, including performing site visits, reviewing construction documents, progress reports, schedules, budgets, change orders, and invoices to ensure the project is built as designed to meet performance expectations
• 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
• Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
• 401(k) with company match
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Education reimbursement program
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid / remote opportunities
• Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
• Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
• Career advancement opportunities

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

How We Do It

We Care, We Dare and We Share!

Our mission is to safeguard life, property and the environment. By joining us, you will work towards our meaningful vision : to make a global impact for a safe and sustainable future.

DNV offers a congenial working environment, competitive salaries, and an exceptional benefits package. We value diversity, equity and inclusion and want you to bring your whole self to work each day. Read more here :

What is Required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or related energy field
• Approximately 3 to 5 years of experience in batteries, energy storage, and / or solar + storage industry in the context of engineering, estimation, construction, development, origination, consulting, finance, or project management
• Familiarity with energy industry technology (batteries, inverters, PV modules, PV mounting systems, balance of system components,
• Project management and time management skills, including an ability to balance multiple projects under tight deadlines and to establish and maintain good relationships with clients
• Solution-oriented thinking skills identifying technical risks and formulating solutions or work-arounds that allow development and financing / investment to proceed
• Display high integrity and honesty clients rely on DNV’s independence and its responsibility to perform a rigorous but fair review of a project or product
• Fluent MS Office products
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, including ability to write clear and detailed technical reports, presentations, and emails, and to clearly communicate complex technical issues to a non-technical audience
• We conduct pre-employment background screening

What is Preferred

• Master’s Degree
• Additional programming or data analytics experience
• Familiarity with contracts (construction, supply, operation and maintenance, warranties, interconnection, offtake, and / or asset management contracts)
• Experience in at least one of the following : solar industry construction and operating contracts, solar project construction, operations / asset management, solar project design / development, module / inverter technology, power marketing / offtake contracting, or energy storage technology and implementation (Preferred) Experience in the wind industry or other renewables may be advantageous
• Willingness and ability to travel, up to 10% of the time, highly flexible travel timing, typically for site visits, team events, or conferences
• Familiarity with storage business models
• Experience understanding budgets and financial models and comfort navigating complicated excel spreadsheets
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