Principal Consultant, Integrated System Planning

Why Black & Veatch

Recognized by Glassdoor as a 2023 Top 100 place to work and winner of the Newsweek’s 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity , Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.

At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Infrastructure Advisory Business provides a portfolio of solutions focused on the asset lifecycle, including Asset Management & Operations & Maintenance, Infrastructure Technology, Cybersecurity Solutions, Program Enablement, Strategy, Planning & Optimization, and Transactions. In this role you will be part of the Delivery Team supporting Solutions.

You will be working with Infrastructure Advisory’s Strategy, Planning & Optimization Solution Portfolio to deliver a wide range of projects and solutions, including integrated resource plans, resource adequacy and reliability assessments, capacity expansion and production cost modeling, portfolio optimization and asset investment planning, market studies, and other related generation and transmission planning efforts.

They Opportunity

Black & Veatch is seeking an exceptional professional to join our Infrastructure Advisory organization as a principal consultant and technical lead to deliver integrated resource management projects for our clients, with a focus on market modeling through platforms like PLEXOS and Encompass. By joining Infrastructure Advisory, a consultant group that advises clients across the infrastructure lifecycle, you will be joining a team of dedicated professionals who are aligned with Black & Veatch’s Purpose, Building a World of Difference.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Deliver innovative solutions to address our client’s most pressing issues, including aging infrastructure, portfolio optimization, asset investments, and improving data management and decision making.
• Support the Strategy, Planning & Optimization Solution through execution of energy market modeling (e.g., PLEXOS, EnCompass) to inform client strategy, integrated resource planning, and investment decisions.
• Translate client objectives, regulatory requirements, and market assumptions into actionable long-term resource plans to support their evolving energy needs.
• Grow your skills, expand your professional network, and shape a rewarding career path aligned with your aspirations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead high complexity consulting tasks in support of project delivery, including:
  • Integrated resource planning (IRP) support, including scenario design, assumptions development, and documentation.
  • Energy market modeling execution using tools such as PLEXOS and EnCompass (production cost, capacity expansion, and portfolio studies).
  • Resource adequacy, reliability, and planning reserve margin assessments; evaluation of capacity accreditation and ELCC where applicable.
  • Portfolio optimization and investment planning analyses (generation, storage, transmission, demand-side resources), including sensitivities on load, fuel, policy, and technology costs.
  • Model QA/QC, calibration, and results validation; develop repeatable workflows, templates, and clear client-ready exhibits.
• Serve as a technical manager or director on strategy and planning projects. Manage tasks and assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise on projects, apply best practices and recommend innovative solutions to clients. Utilize specialized knowledge to produce complex work products and solutions across all phases of an engagement. Leverage knowledge and experience to assess alternative approaches to solving problems. Identify technical issues impacting an engagement and implement solutions.
• Provide thought leadership and be recognized as a company/industry subject matter expert. Contributes through presentations, publications, participation in regional/national conferences, and on professional society committees.
• Lead client meetings and workshops, develop presentations and communicate effectively with clients
• Support business development activities, and lead the development of scopes, schedules and budget

Management Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
• Typically 10+ years experience in a business/consulting environment.

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

Certifications related to area of expertise, where applicable preferred.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

BandV Office Environment or Client Site - Travel up to 100%