Electrical Engineering- Team Lead

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 Canada.
What You'll Do

• Self-starter, able to generate and contract new business, manage projects entirely
• Anticipating project issues and leading customers and a team in developing appropriate resolutions
• Willing to travel up to 15% of the time, domestic and international
• Process, procedure, and aid development relating to electrical review of wind, transmission, and emerging technologies project documentation
• 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
• Intelligence to help develop services according to the local industry needs
• Occasionally conducting the team’s more complex site visits, inspections, construction monitoring, and failure investigation
• Independently, train and develop junior staff, manage sensitive and confidential customer information, and ability to understand when to delegate and escalate tasks and issues as they arise
• 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
• 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

Position Qualifications
What is Required

• Experience writing reports in English, with excellent ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-engineering technical staff as well as laypersons (financing, legal, marketing)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in renewables development, power generation, power system design, or related field
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Working knowledge of various power purchase contracts, electric power system regulatory compliance, and market structures
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with an emphasis on power systems; Business degree or entrepreneurial experience related to power generation may be considered in lieu of an electrical engineering degree, and would be considered a plus if in addition to an electrical engineering degree
• We conduct pre-employment background screening
• Management of projects and staff in a technical consultancy or similar environment
• Working knowledge of utility scale generation and interconnection; including process, requirements, and implementation
• Testing, construction, and safety practices for electrical power equipment

What Is Preferred

• Key experience may include but is not limited to: Generation, transmission, substation, and distribution system engineering, construction and operations, power system simulation and analysis, electrical construction contracts, and project finance
• Regulatory and reliability framework applicable to renewable energy development, interconnection, and operations (FERC, NERC, other)
• Knowledge of procurement processes, and overall development life cycles (including interrelationships between various development activities)
• Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are not available for this position*
• Professional Engineering (PE or P.Eng.) licensure in at least one US state or Canadian province, current and in good standing

What We Offer

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

How We Do It
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DNV 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 ([email protected]). Information received relating to accommodations will be addressed confidentially.
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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.