Senior Analyst - Infrastructure Advisory (BESS Expert)

Job Summary

With a focus on utility industries such as Power, Oil & Gas, Data Infrastructure and Water as well as other resource-intensive sectors, Black & Veatch’s Global Advisory group provides a range of holistic strategic, process, financial and technology solutions. Black & Veatch brings together combined expertise in advanced analytics and practical business experience with extensive organizational, technology and engineering capabilities. Throughout the world, we deliver solutions that work best for the program needs, organization, assets and customers.

 

Our professionals improve organizational effectiveness, and reduce risks and costs by enabling our clients to adopt and operationalize new technologies and approaches. We help justify and fund major improvements to your utility network and assets. We help you achieve a clear, systematic approach to managing risks. And worldwide, we work with executive leadership teams to identify and design business-case solutions to some of our world’s most transformational initiatives solving energy, water, decarbonisation and other finite resource challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design review of BESS projects
• BESS technology review
• BESS sizing
• Working on transaction projects of other renewable technologies like solar, wind, etc.
• Compiles data from design documents, contracts
• Review technical inputs in financial model for BESS and other similar technologies
• Data analysis and crunching
• Draft inputs to technical due diligence, construction and operation monitoring report
• Presenting data in meaningful formats to be used by project teams

Consulting Capability:

• Delivers or contributes to the development of work products throughout at least one phase of an engagement
• Uses recognized methods to deliver work products
• Contributes to risk and issue identification and synthesis of solutions

Industry knowledge capability:

• delivers work products and demonstrates a broad knowledge of an industry or market including trends, current state of the art and driving factors
• collects and analyzes information specific to the industry to recommend alternatives
• proactively develops additional knowledge applicable to the area of expertise

Project delivery:

• manages personal accountabilities during at least one phase in an overall engagement; ability to lead simple deliverables related to core competency

 

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Management Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in design review technical due diligence, bankability or similar roles for battery energy storage and other technologies
• Understanding of battery chemistry and different technologies
• Understanding of techno-commercial aspects in contracts
• Graduation in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering; Masters degree in Engineering preferred;
• Understanding of basic concepts in power and infrastructure projects beyond core skill set

Preferred Skills:

• Proficient technical or functional knowledge in one or more target industries
• Knowledge base in one or more solution areas
• General knowledge of customers in one or more target industries
• Proficiency in one aspect of consulting processes
• Human relations skills including collaboration and team functions
• Understanding of team function and operation in an engagement environment
• Ability to operate multiple software packages
• Advanced PC literacy  

Preferred Consultant Skills:

• Business Acumen
• Comfort Around Higher Management
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Learning on the Fly 

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree + 2-4 years experience OR Master's degree. 2-4+ years experience in a business/consulting environment. All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

Certifications related to area of expertise, where applicable preferred

Work Environment/Physical Demands

B&V Office or Client environment - travel up to 100%

Competencies

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