Consultant (Infrastructure Advisory)

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

Roles & Responsibilities

• Execute strategy projects and also support transaction projects, when necessary
• Lead tasks for business concept review, market entry strategy, competitor assessment, risk review
• Conduct independent research and analysis when necessary
• Compiling analysis and preparation of deliverables to contribute to the completion of multiple engagement phases of a project. Demonstrate capabilities with low level of supervision
• Support sustainability and decarbonization related project activities
• Guide and mentor more junior colleagues, share specialist knowledge with the broader Global Advisory team
• Support proposal development activities under the supervision of project and proposal management professionals

Consulting Capability:

• Delivers or contributes to the development of work products throughout at least one phase of an engagement
• Co-facilitates group discussions with team members or client representatives
• 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

• 6-9 years’ experience in executing market assessment and strategy projects for infrastructure projects including power, water or oil & gas.
• Experience of some or all of the following: studying trends in energy sector, computing levelized cost of energy, understanding of financial models, market research, preparing PESTLE, business case assessment, risk analysis, econometric projects, etc.
• Preferably graduation in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering with secondary qualification in management/strategy
• Excellent English speaking and report writing skills, ability to work with multi-cultural teams across different time zones and in a virtual setting
• Good communication skills and personal presence for client interactions
• Willingness to travel and multi-task to meet tight timelines while working independently with minimal supervision

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience. 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

Normal office environment

Competencies

Salary Plan

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