Principal Consultant, Due Diligence (Bristol, Glasgow, Hamburg, Bangkok or Taipei)

K2 Management’s due diligence team supports lenders and investors in some of the largest and most influential renewable energy projects around the world. Our methods are focused on providing succinct and efficient advice to clients, focused on the major cost and performance characteristics of a project, to help them understand risks and reach a robust valuation.

We are looking for a Principal Consultant to join our highly dedicated and experienced due diligence team to increase our capability in Europe and/or Asia. We have acted as technical adviser on some of the largest and most cutting-edge renewable energy projects in the world. Joining the team would give you the opportunity to have an impact on the global increase in renewable energy and decarbonization. As K2 Management is a growing company worldwide, this position will offer significant career and learning opportunities to the right candidate.

What you’ll be doing:
As Principal Consultant, Due Diligence, you will be a central member of a highly professional and dynamic team with exposure to clients and projects around the world, and your responsibility will be to lead due diligence assignments and support to our clients, predominantly large offshore projects in EMEA, US and Asia.

Your duties in this aspect may include (however not be limited to) the following:

• Being part of the technical DD team and providing technical DD expertise to clients.
• Leading and taking responsibility for project management of on and offshore wind projects, advising our clients and producing succinct, clear and high-quality written and verbal advice.
• Analysing, reviewing and assessing renewable energy projects, including technical reviews, key project agreements and financial model assumptions
• Cooperation with team members and technical experts based in other countries as our services and solutions are sourced from everywhere in the organization – and provide our clients with the optimal solution
• Leading or participating in conference calls with clients, financial and legal advisors
• Travelling for site visits and client meetings, primarily in Europe with the potential to travel world-wide on assignments.
• Supporting business development and sales activities as may be required.

About you:

• Personable and a strong team player.
• Technically rigorous and detail focused but with a commercial understanding of wind energy developments
• Self-motivated and happy to be part of a remote team.
• Capable of managing clients and assignments autonomously
• Significant number of years’ experience working within the renewable industry in onshore and/or offshore wind, and familiar with due diligence and LTA assignments
• Ability to project management an assignment, sometimes under tight time and budget constraints.
• Experience of working within and managing a multi-disciplinary engineering environment.
• Excellent written English with the ability to communicate clearly and explain technical issues to a non-technical audience.
• Cooperation and flexibility always keeping in mind what is best for the client, team and company.
• Diplomatic skills and honesty are requirements in a diverse and multi-cultural organization with high ethical standards.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in delivering offshore wind technical due diligence, especially lender’s technical advisory services.
• Degree educated in a relevant technical subject
• Experience in non-European projects, especially in developing offshore wind markets (e.g. Taiwan, Japan, USA)
• Multi-lingual capability
• Must be eligible to work in the UK and / or Germany and / or Thailand or Taiwan

As a person you have a quality-oriented approach to your assignment and an eye for details. You can self-manage; organizing and prioritizing your own workload is essential. An excellent communicator, you have an open-minded and cooperative personality always keeping in mind what is best for the company and our clients. You can create results through teamwork and develop good relationships with your colleagues and other stakeholders across the company’s global reach. And your integrity, diplomatic skills and honesty are requirements in a multi-cultural organization with high ethical standards.

About K2 Management:
K2 Management is a technical consultancy focused on wind and solar projects around the world. We use our extensive expertise to support our clients in their efforts to develop and operate energy projects that achieve the best possible return on investment. Our reputation and track record mean we are involved in the most exciting and influential renewable energy projects at the cutting edge of energy transition and decarbonization.

As of November 2024, we have become part of Ramboll, an international architecture, engineering and consultancy company. This enables us to come together as a world-leading renewables consultancy - with increased resources to take on major projects on a global scale. Through our Ramboll ownership, you will in addition get access to a vast pool of world-leading technical insight, data and knowledge across all engineering, design and socio-economic disciplines.

You will be working with great colleagues with the opportunity to be close to our core business, which is developing and supporting onshore and offshore projects on behalf of our clients. We work as one team with dedication, respect, and credibility as our core values. Overall, you will have a unique and challenging job where you have every opportunity to learn and develop your skills as a team member in a highly professional environment with strong technical and commercial commitment.

Our people are fundamental to our business, and we strive to offer an environment where every employee feels safe and included as their true, authentic self. We are committed to cultivating a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion across K2 Management, and believe that collaboration between individuals with varied backgrounds, cultures and experiences combine to build a stronger, more agile, and competitive company.

We look forward to receiving your application. For further information, please visit www.k2management.com

Lokation: International