Manager, Technical Advisory - Thermal Generation and Gas Network Expert

The role

You will lead technical workstreams for technical due diligence and advisory across gas-fired generation, CHP, bio-to-X, heat, and gas network assets. You will assess technical feasibility, risks, and costs to support investment and development decisions.

What you will do

• Lead technical due diligence and advisory assignments for M&A, project finance, and infrastructure investment.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams and coordinate specialist inputs.
• Assess technical feasibility, performance, condition, risks, and opportunities of assets and projects.
• Undertake or oversee feasibility studies, technical option assessments, and techno-economic analysis.
• Review engineering designs, technical specifications, EPC and O&M contracts, and project documentation.
• Assess CAPEX, OPEX, development, and lifecycle costs.
• Review technology maturity, provider capability, and performance guarantees.
• Identify material technical risks and translate findings into implications for valuation and investment.
• Present technical findings and recommendations to investment committees, lenders, and senior stakeholders.
• Develop Baringa's Technical Advisory capability through methodologies and coaching.

Required qualifications

• 7 to 9 years of relevant professional experience
• Strong foundation in mechanical, chemical or process, energy or environmental engineering
• Relevant degree, equivalent qualification or substantial practical experience
• Proven record of leading technical due diligence, Lender's Technical Advisor assignments or comparable investor-facing technical assessments
• Experience assessing capital and operating expenditure
• Experience identifying material technical and investment risks
• Experience owning key deliverables such as TDD reports and red flag presentations
• In-depth, hands-on experience of one or more of: CCGT and OCGT; reciprocating gas engines and flexible gas peakers; CHP and cogeneration; bio-to-X and low-carbon fuels; heat networks; or gas transmiss
• Experience managing assignments and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience acting as a trusted point of contact for senior client stakeholders
• Ability to explain engineering findings to senior decision-makers

Nice to have

• Candidates outside the 7 to 9 years experience range with particularly relevant experience

Benefits

• 5 weeks of annual leave
• 5-Year Recharge benefit: 2 weeks of additional paid leave after 5 years continuous service
• Hybrid working policy
• Flexibility around taking unpaid leave
• 3 Corporate Responsibility Days per year
• Annual People Fund to support and manage wellbeing
• Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme

About the company

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms.