Engineer - Energy Analytics

If your answer to these questions is “yes”, then we'd love to chat!

• Are you passionate about renewable energy and playing a role in the energy transition?
• Do you love to delve into complex problems and use your excellent technical skills to work out practical, robust, high-quality solutions?
• Are you great at building insight and understanding from careful analysis of feature-rich data sets?
• Do you have a knack for using engineering or simulation models to predict the behaviour or characteristics of complex systems?
• Are you logical, creative, and organised, and able to get things done efficiently and effectively?
• Are you always looking for new and better ways of tackling technical challenges?
• Do you enjoy being able to clearly and concisely communicate the outcomes from your work to those who need it most?
• Are you ready to be part of an experienced, caring, friendly team who want to work cooperatively with you to realise great outcomes?

In the Energy Analytics team, we help our Customers to develop, approve and finance renewable energy projects, by using our technical skills to conduct high-quality analyses and provide robust answers to difficult questions. We're predominantly engineers with a knack for skilfully using and building tools and models to get the answers we need. 

We're busy, and so we're looking for someone to join us in a graduate to senior level role.

Here are some of the things we do. It would be great if you already have experience with some of these tasks, but if not, we can teach you.

• modelling and mapping to better understand the wind resource across countries, regions or sites.
• using sophisticated GIS-based analysis to identify promising sites for the development of utility-scale wind projects.
• designing efficient wind farms considering complex constraints.
• creating effective wind resource monitoring plans, incorporating remote sensing devices such as lidar and sodar.
• performing detailed investigative data analysis of wind measurements.
• providing assurance on project viability through pre-feasibility and red-flag assessments.
• conducting greenfield site visits to appraise the characteristics of potential development sites.
• producing defendable preliminary and bankable wind and solar energy production assessments to provide confidence for developers, investors and financiers.
• executing industry-leading CFD models to help understand complex flow behaviour.
• using tools to predict impacts such as shadow flicker, glint/glare, electromagnetic interference, noise, blade throw and visual impact, to support planning applications for wind projects.
• providing trusted advice as an expert witness at planning hearings.

As well as the technical elements of our work, we are continually engaging with various customers and stakeholders, including developers, investors, financiers, planning authorities and others. Some of the other important non-technical parts of our work include:

• engaging with customers to establish how our capabilities can help answer their questions.
• preparing proposals including scope, scheduling and budgeting.
• executing projects successfully through careful project management.
• preparing effective, high-quality technical reports and presentations.
• delivering insightful presentations to customers or other industry stakeholders.
• explaining and discussing important results and outcomes from our work with customers or other stakeholders.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

Finally, and on a more personal note:

• We are a welcoming and supportive team who value the benefits and strength that come from diversity.
• We have strong local and global heritage and we regularly work with knowledgeable and experienced colleagues from around the world.
• We offer competitive renumeration and leave allowances, including paid and unpaid parental leave, and flexible working arrangements.
• We’re focussed on staying at the forefront of the industry though regular investment in research and innovation, and are supportive of employee development.
• We’ve worked hard to stay close and support each other during the past year, when we have all increasingly had to work from home, and look forward to extending the same support to you throughout whatever challenges the coming years present.

Some of the benefits that we offer include: 

• Wellbeing: DNV understands the importance of physical and mental wellbeing and aligned with our value of caring for our people, we have a ‘Be Well’ program in place. 
• Bonus opportunity: We believe it is important to reward our employees with an annual discretionary profit scheme or sales incentive scheme – depending on your role.
• Insurances: DNV covers permanent employees for life and total permanent disability insurance as well as salary continuance insurance to safeguard you within our DNV Superannuation scheme.
• Parental and long service leave:  DNV has a generous parental leave and long service leave policy. 
• Hybrid work: We offer a hybrid work model to foster our culture while providing you with working flexibility.
• Professional membership: We will support you with membership fees for your relevant governing body applicable to your position. 
• Social activities: To foster our culture, we enjoy regular social get togethers. 

*Benefits may vary based on position, tenure/contract/grade level* 

 

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in engineering, science, renewable energy, meteorology, maths, physics, data science or other relevant discipline.

Knowledge, skills and experience required for the position are:

• Excellent technical skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong data analysis skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with colleagues in a team environment.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and creativity.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Word and Excel.

Experience in, or familiarity with, any of the following would be great, but is not essential:

• Experience in the renewable energy industry.
• Experience with the analysis, development and/or design of utility scale wind and/or solar energy projects.
• Experience utilising wind and/or solar resource and plant modelling tools.
• Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages (e.g., Python, Matlab, VBA).
• Experience building tools or software for solving technical or engineering problems.
• Experience with mesoscale atmospheric modelling and/or Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modelling.
• Experience with one or more Geographic Information System (GIS) software packages (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS, MapInfo, Global Mapper).
• Familiarity or experience with simulation or modelling tools.
• Familiarity with software packages or tools for statistical analysis.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts.
• Experience with the permitting or planning process for wind and solar projects.
• Project management skills and experience.
• Experience with building and maintaining professional relationships with customers.
• Experience in developing proposals for work, including budgets, appropriate contractual terms, and undertaking negotiations on scope and price with customers.

Physical abilities:

• Normal office environment, involving regular walking, sitting, bending, twisting, standing and reaching.
• Some domestic and international travel to other company office locations, site locations, client offices and conferences.
• Occasional work outdoors including site visits, travelling by car up to six hours and walking on uneven terrain may be required. 

We are open to this person be located in Sydney, Melbourne or Perth, with a slight preference for Melbourne as that is where the majority of the team sits.