About the Job
We are seeking a senior manager with a proven track record in business development and project management for our E&CA business unit in San Francisco. Successful candidates must be experienced, creative, and self-motivated, with extensive experience working with new and advanced energy technologies, and a successful track record of developing new business as well as managing a professional consulting team. Nexant’s E&CA business team based in San Francisco provides engineering consulting services to a diverse portfolio of private sector and government clients. Typical services include technology planning, energy systems integration analysis, technical due diligence, engineering support for R&D development, conceptual design and cost estimation, techno-economic evaluation, risk analysis, market assessment, and project management. Nexant’s energy technology consultancy experience covers many aspects of advanced energy generation and storage technologies. This includes clean coal and renewable energies (e.g, gasification and advanced biomass based power systems), climate change and management, carbon capture plant integration design, alternative fuels, concentrating solar power and PV energy plant systems, fuel cells, hydrogen production, infrastructure and utilization systems, life cycle analysis and sustainable solutions.
Duties and responsibilities
- Provide leadership and management in Nexant’s E&CA energy consulting team located in San Francisco
- Liaise with existing clients and manage business relationships for growth
- Develop new consulting business opportunities to help clients with development and deployment of new and advanced energy technologies
- Manage teams that execute consulting assignments and maintain quality control, budget and schedule of all deliverables, with demonstrated excellence
- Other duties as assigned.
Job qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent
- 20+ years of experience with a proven track record in business/project development
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong proficiency in proposal preparation, cost/benefit analysis and project management
- Demonstrated proficiency and experience in analyzing and conducing technical evaluation/integration of leading edge energy technologies
- Must be able to travel locally and domestically with overnight stays for up to approximately 20% of the time.
About Nexant E&CA
Nexant’s Energy and Chemical Advisory (E&CA) Business Unit is an independent global consulting firm that provides advisory services to the energy and chemicals sector. Nexant’s experience covers all market and techno-economic aspects of refinery, petrochemical, polymer, and biorenewable businesses. Nexant's key consulting offices are located in White Plains, San Francisco, London, Bahrain, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai.
Nexant offers consulting services in the following areas:
- Strategy Assistance: Entry or exit strategies, growth or diversification strategies and general planning and organizational advisory services
- M&A Assistance: Including due diligence, asset evaluation and valuation support
- Master Planning and Feasibility Appraisal: Covering independent evaluation of small, medium and large scale investment projects
- Technical Reviews: As advisors to sponsors for performance improvement, or lenders for Project Finance and M&A
- Project Evaluation & Financing: During the past few years Nexant has provided Independent Consultancy to the sponsors and/or lenders for over $100 billion of investment projects that have been successfully implemented
- Market Assessments: Analysis of supply, demand, and trade for all major products in the sector and many specialties, including market drivers and cost competitiveness .
Salary and Benefits (U.S.)
Nexant offers competitive salaries based on candidate's qualifications. Nexant also offers three weeks paid vacation per year, eleven paid holidays per year, a 401(k) plan with employee matching funds and an overall comprehensive benefits package.
Nexant, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Every day, Nexant employees partner with customers to reimagine the world we live in and create a more sustainable energy tomorrow.