Senior Energy Consultant -- Asset Management

Description

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement. You will spend three days a week in the office, giving you the flexibility to work remotely for two days (Chicago, IL)

Sargent & Lundy is one of the largest and most experienced power industry engineering and consulting firms.  This position in Sargent & Lundy’s Consulting group will require you to work on our project teams that Advises utilities, developers, and investors to make informed decisions and actionable conclusions on Asset Management strategies in transmission and distribution electric facilities.

This position is being added to support the continued growth of the Sargent & Lundy Consulting group, particularly in Asset Management for utility planning / advisory practice areas. Our Consulting group works with clients across the United States and in numerous other countries.

This position will require -to-face interaction with public utilities, developers and owners, as well as potentially interfacing with regulatory organizations, during the execution of consulting services work for the firm. The work environment in our Consulting group is fast-paced, dynamic, and interesting. 

 You will work with multi-discipline project teams to provide a variety of services, such as the following:

• Understanding and providing knowledge to our customers on regulations and compliance requirements as they apply to the asset portfolios
• Develops multi-year asset management plans incorporating all capital and expense activities for developing the lifecycle activities for the asset classes
• Work in assisting the client to determine the portfolio investment prioritization process to aging infrastructure, deliverability, and grid modernization
• Provides rate case strategy support including testimony preparation
• Prepare economic impact & business case analysis to support Electric infrastructure improvement plans
• Gap Analysis and Risk Assessment: Identifying vulnerabilities, enabling effective solutions.

Qualifications

We do not sponsor employees for work authorization in the U.S. for this position.

 

This position requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with 8+ years of experience in electrical engineering design of electric T&D projects A master’s degree in an engineering discipline or business (e.g., MBA) is a plus.

 

Also required is five or more years of experience in the power industry in one or more of these areas:

• Technical knowledge in electric transmission, distribution, and power generation technologies – solar, battery energy storage, wind, and thermal power
• Having direct experience in advocacy and stakeholder management, engaging in matters involving Public Utility commissions.
• Direct or indirect experience with utility commission regulations, ISO tariffs and FERC EQR reporting

Valued but not required skills and experience:

• Experience in grid modernization deployment for EV infrastructure, Distribution Automation or other T&D assets
• Financial modeling of energy infrastructure with an understanding of market protocols

Although not required, experience working on power or transmission projects will be considered. Applicants are encouraged to please highlight, as applicable, relevant coursework/experience pertaining to the following:

• Technical report writing.
• Multi-discipline teamwork (i.e., design projects, co-ops)
• Data analysis and visualization.
• Project finance or business acumen.
• Conceptual project design.
• Construction project management and/or scheduling software knowledge.

Also important are:

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Solid interpersonal skills and ability to work with and guide others.
• Project planning, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Decision making and judgement.

AI & Automation at Sargent & Lundy

In this role, we expect people to be willing or able to lead others who use modern tools:

• You are expected to lead others in taking engineering problems from issue to solution by setting expectations for using data and modern tools such as automation and AI to improve workflows, reduce rework, and deliver cost-effective designs.
• Leaders in these roles often direct automation and process-improvement work, for example, how teams automate calculations, summarize technical documents, or generate design documentation and guiding when and how AI or agentic AI tools are used while ensuring results are checked.
• Overseeing engineers who program or script (e.g., Python, MATLAB, advanced Excel) to automate engineering tasks, with review of automated outputs, i