Staff Engineer, Wind Asset Advisory

JOB DESCRIPTION
UL Solutions Renewables is seeking an experienced renewable energy professional to join the Asset Advisory team as a Staff Engineer, managing projects, preparing proposals, and interfacing with customers.
This is a hybrid role based in Lyon, France. Possibility to work remotely from Paris, Marseille, Montpellier, or Nîmes.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the primary client interface for UL Solutions Renewables Asset Advisory, ensuring effective communication and relationship management.
• Coordinate the engineering studies with the team: LTE (Lifetime Evaluation), OEYA (Operational Energy Yield Assessment), EYA (Energy Yield Assessment).
• Prepare comprehensive proposals outlining the scope of work, team structure, budget, and project schedule to meet client expectations.
• Manage and coordinate internal resources, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to ensure project deliverables remain on schedule, within scope, and on budget.
• Manage and execute Independent Engineering (IE) and Technical Advisory (TA) services to support the financing, sale, or acquisition of wind plants and portfolios.
• Collaborate with the Due Diligence team on services like Turbine Technology Reviews (TTR), Site Suitability assessments, and other evaluations.
• Compile and finalize IE and TA reports, ensuring high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed client expectations.
• Integrate all review sections from UL and the multi-disciplinary sub-consultant team, incorporating the results of UL's energy analysis to ensure consistency across technical and commercial assessments. Summarize key results and conclusions.
• Develop and implement communication plans and project status reports. Lead and facilitate regular status meetings with the internal project team, sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team to identify project risks, barriers, and issues, and propose effective solutions and mitigation strategies.
• Apply best practices and incorporate lessons learned from previous projects to enhance project execution.
• Represent UL at industry conferences within the region, staying engaged with sector trends and fostering professional connections.
• If located in Lyon: site leadership responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Master's degree preferred).
• A minimum of 7 years of experience as a Project Manager or Project Engineer in wind asset advisory, due diligence, project development, construction, equipment supply, operation, or mergers & acquisitions.
• Strong understanding of asset advisory best practices and the typical steps of a due diligence (DD) process.
• Experience in wind asset management.
• Highly motivated, versatile, and possessing excellent interpersonal skills. Ability to work under pressure and meet demanding delivery deadlines.
• Preferably based in Lyon, France, with up to 25% travel across Europe expected.
• English is a must; additional language skills highly valued.

ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
ABOUT THE TEAM
We solve our customers' problems. Within Software & Advisory (S&A) services, UL Solutions' Enterprise Sustainability business focuses on solving some of the most pressing world challenges - renewables, energy transition, sustainability, health & wellbeing, return to work and people safety. We do this through Renewable Energy Advisory and Digital Services, Environmental, Health and Safety Software & Learning programs, best in class Sustainability and ESG reporting software with UL 360, advisory services, subject matter experts and Healthy Buildings testing and verification.