Engineering Leader, Wind Advisory Services, North America

JOB DESCRIPTION
UL Renewables is seeking a North America Wind Leader to lead energy advisory, due diligence, and asset advisory services. In this role, you will effectively support the day to day activities of the Wind teams, supporting and guiding decisions on projects, project management, and opportunities, within a highly matrixed organization. In addition, this role is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships and supporting the commercial team by ensuring workload balance and providing technical support needed to satisfy customers.
This role can be remote in the US or hybrid from Albany, NY.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the Wind advisory services including Energy Advisory, Due Diligence, and Asset advisory.
• Manage internal teams, and methods including studies, templates, proposals, and execution and delivery of complex independent engineering projects for clients and tax equity.
• Be the face of UL within the North America wind industry, represent UL Solutions at conferences, and industry groups, and develop and nurture client relationships.
• Work collaboratively with the leaders for Solar and Energy Storage, and with regions outside North America.
• Be responsible for driving process improvements to ensure financial results are achieved.
• Drive a high-performing team by managing the performance and development of team members. Develop and coach by providing, training, career counseling, feedback, guidance to drive high performance and morale
• Increase customer loyalty, anticipate customer needs and provide proactive solutions. Gather, share and respond to customer feedback. Coach and mentor employees to do the same.
• Support Sales by building relationships with customers, requiring a deep understanding of what is in pipeline, obtaining feedback on what is working well and identifies actions and solutions.
• Lead and/or participate in discussions to drive business initiatives through brainstorming discussions. Empower and hold team accountable to find new opportunities to effectively drive growth & financial goals (revenue, profit, enterprise value).

QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree (equivalent to a Bachelors degree) in Business Administration, Management, Engineering or related field plus generally 8 years minimum of directly related experience.
• Knowledge of US wind project finance landscape and existing relationships with clients and banks.
• Deep technical expertise in onshore wind.
• Track record of P&L management.
• Track record of people management. Ability to manage employee performance using performance expectations and goals and responding to employee relations issues.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how decisions impact business results, working with a diverse team and planning and thinking strategically.
• Demonstrate customer collaboration, project management and business acumen skills.
• People leadership experience and talent development are essential, together with the ability to fulfill client deadlines and represent complex technical issues with clients and project investors.

What you'll experience at UL:

• Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn't new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 125 years and is deeply engrained in everything we do.
• People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you'll almost always hear, "the people." Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We're able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
• Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers create. We're inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
• Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
• Total Rewards: The salary range for this position is $120,000 - $150,000 and is based upon years of experience that is commensurate with the level of the position. All employees at UL Solutions are eligible for annual bonus compensation. The target for this position is 20% of the base salary offered. Employees are eligible for health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental & financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country, for the relevant position level. We also provide employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
  Internal applicants with questions related to the Total Rewards for this position should submit a ticket via askHR for more insights.

Learn More:
Working at UL is an exciting journey that twists and turns daily. We thrive in the twists and revel in the turns. This is our every day. This is our normal.
Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit https://www.ul.com/software/renewable-energy-software-solutions
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