Principal Project Manager

About the Position

Principal Project Manager

We are seeking a Principal Project Manager to lead complex M&A transactions in the energy sector, combining technical and commercial expertise.

Locations

• Toronto, ON, Canada
• Calgary, AB, Canada
• Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Montreal, QC, Canada

Overview

About Us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About the Role

Are you ready to shape the future of energy by leading complex and high-impact M&A transactions across multiple energy technologies and helping grow strategic customer accounts?

Do you thrive at the intersection of technical expertise, commercial judgment, innovation, and strategic deal-making, helping investors make smarter decisions in a rapidly evolving energy market?

DNV Energy Systems North America is seeking a Principal Project Manager with deep technical and commercial expertise in energy technologies (e.g., wind, solar, storage, electric-vehicle infrastructure, decarbonization, midstream infrastructure, thermal generation, data centers, or other emerging energy infrastructure), and/or practical experience with project financing for our Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Advisory Services team. The successful candidate will combine complex project delivery leadership with account growth, commercial ownership, and team capability development. Join us!

Responsibilities

• Lead the most complex, high-risk, multi-discipline, and multi-technology due diligence engagements, acting as the senior point of contact accountable for scope, schedule, budget, quality, customer confidence, and commercial outcomes.
• Leverage experience, expertise, and creative thought to deliver customer-centric technical analysis for energy and infrastructure projects.
• Serve as Project Sponsor on major engagements, providing senior oversight for due diligence execution, prioritizing QHSE considerations, ensuring alignment among transaction strategy, customer priorities, and quality expectations, and serving as the escalation point for the most complex technical and commercial project decisions.
• Lead and coordinate technical reviews among internal specialists, including civil and electrical engineering, energy assessment, technology, transmission, permitting teams, and other DNV disciplines.
• Direct and provide senior-level review of the analyses most material to investment decisions, including contract and financial model review, technology, design, energy assessments, operating performance, and other complex technical matters.
• Resolve technical issues in partnership with transaction stakeholders, including coordination of input on such issues from internal technical specialists, as necessary.
• Provide final review and approval of major deliverables, ensuring that findings are technically rigorous, decision-useful, aligned with client context, and communicated with clarity and credibility.
• Lead customer dialogues to understand their needs. Develop winning proposals for scopes of services related to due diligence work, including creative tailoring and sequencing of work to meet budget and timeline requirements. Identify opportunities for innovation and refinement to meet the needs of an evolving marketplace.
• Support priority customers through transaction execution, investment committee decisions, financing, and closing (as applicable), while strengthening long-term, high-value relationships and DNV’s position as a strategic partner.
• Define and champion improvements to methodologies, delivery approaches, digital tools, and service offerings that enhance quality, consistency, scalability, and customer value across the M&A practice.
• Partner with account leadership to develop and execute customer engagement strategies for priority accounts, identifying opportunities to expand relationships, anticipate customer needs, and strengthen DNV's market position.
• Serve as a recognized leader within the M&A practice by contributing to talent development, service-line evolution, strategic hiring priorities, thought leadership, and cross-functional collaboration across DNV.
• Adhere to the DNV system for quality management, including liaising with QHSE leadership on developing procedures, instructions, guidelines, and checklists in order to ensure quality of services produced by the M&A team.
• Mentor SPMs, PMs, and APMs through project-based coaching, review, and knowledge sharing; provide input to Team Leads on development needs, project assignments, and readiness for increasingly complex responsibilities.

Requirements

• Core Skills:

  • Project Management
  • Technical Due Diligence
  • Energy Technologies
  • M&A Advisory Services

• Experience Level: Senior

We Offer

• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Work Location Type: Hybrid

About the Company

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.