Energy & Utility Consulting Manager

This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, with three days a week in the office and two days remote.

About the Role

The Sargent & Lundy Consulting (SLC) group provides comprehensive technical, financial, and strategic advisory services for energy sector clients, including utilities, independent power producers (IPPs), project developers, lenders, investors, government agencies, and system operators. As part of our team, you will help clients navigate the energy transition—from new generation and grid modernization to data center energy campus development and strategic planning. You will lead high-impact projects, collaborate with industry-leading technical experts, and build a career in energy and infrastructure consulting.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning consulting projects, including market, technology, and policy assessments.
• Lead and contribute to project economic and cost analyses, risk assessments, and contracting strategies.
• Manage technical due diligence and owner’s engineering reviews for power and energy projects, including reviewing deliverables such as reports and studies.
• Provide client program and project management support, including improving governance, business processes, controls, and stakeholder alignment.
• Develop conceptual plans in coordination with Sargent & Lundy’s technical teams to meet clients’ needs.
• Prepare and present project implementation strategies and plans to client executives and project teams.
• Translate complex technical findings into clear, client-ready deliverables, including presentations and written reports.
• Lead discrete workstreams within larger client engagements.
• Coordinate day-to-day activities of junior team members, providing clear instruction including technical approaches, and managing hours and work performed to budget and scope.
• Develop staff expertise through training and mentoring.
• Contribute to business development, including proposal preparation and client relationship building.

The successful candidate will bring prior consulting experience, strong analytical skills, and energy-sector knowledge to help clients navigate an evolving energy landscape. You will lead projects involving utility planning and advisory, new generation portfolio development, grid modernization, and new energy campus planning, with exposure to both technical details and executive-level decisions. This is a full-time, client-facing position with extensive exposure to technical experts across the firm.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering (other engineering disciplines or finance/economics may be considered) with 15 or more years of experience in the power industry.
• Experience and technical knowledge in multiple power generation technologies.
• Experience managing teams of engineers and/or consultants.
• Prior management consulting or advisory experience with a consulting firm, advisory practice, or consulting role within an engineering firm or energy company, including direct client interaction and responsibility for analytical work products.
• Demonstrated experience working with electric or gas utilities, independent power producers, project developers, grid operators, or energy investors.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including comfort working with quantitative models, large data sets, and financial or economic analysis.
• Proven ability to produce clear, well-structured deliverables (Excel models, PowerPoint decks, and written reports) and to communicate complex topics to non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading client meetings, workshops, or presentations; comfort engaging directly with client stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced, project-based consulting environment.
• High level of initiative, ownership, and accountability, with a track record of delivering quality work products with limited supervision.

Skills

Valued but not required:

• Experience in technical due diligence and owner’s engineering design reviews of power projects.
• Understanding of power plant operations and performance, including key operational and financial drivers.
• Understanding of electric utility business models, planning processes, and operations.
• Experience with economic evaluation, cost analysis, and contract development (e.g., PPAs, EPC contracts, O&M agreements).

Benefits

At Sargent & Lundy, we care about the health and well-being of our employees. Our commitment extends beyond the workplace, offering comprehensive healthcare plans and generous paid time off to support our team members in every aspect of their lives. Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, and vision plans; life and accident insurance; disability coverage; Employee Assistance Program (EAP); back-up daycare; FSA and HSA.
• Financial Benefits: 401(k); pre-tax commuter account; merit scholarship program; employee discount program; corporate charitable giving program; tuition assistance; first professional licensure bonus; employee referral bonus.
• Work-Life Balance: Paid annual personal/sick time (PST); paid vacation; paid holidays; paid parental leave; paid bereavement leave; flexible work arrangements.

Pay

Compensation range: $145,310.00 - $222,001.00. The total compensation package includes a base salary and a comprehensive benefits package. Individuals may also be eligible to participate in our yearly discretionary bonus.