Manager, Technical Advisory - Thermal Generation and Gas Network Expert

About Baringa
Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.
The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.
Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.
Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.
Our Technical Advisory practice are looking for an experienced Manager to join the team.
Our Energy and Resources team works across the energy value chain and supports many of the world's leading energy companies, infrastructure investors, private-equity funds, lenders, developers and government organisations. You will have the opportunity to work on transactions and projects across the UK, Europe and internationally. Our Market and Transactions unit is looking for an experienced Manager to join our Technical Advisory capability, working at the heart of the energy transition and supporting investors, developers, lenders, utilities and public-sector organisations on complex energy infrastructure decisions. Our Technical Advisory team combines engineering, transaction advisory and technical due diligence experience to help clients understand the technical risks, opportunities, capital and operating costs, performance and value of energy assets in the thermal generation sector. You will work closely with Baringa's market, commercial, market access and transaction advice teams, while bringing an independent and engineering-led perspective to investment and development decisions.
What you will be doing
The core of the role is leading the technical workstreams of buy-side, sell-side and lender technical due diligence, and technical advice, across gas-fired generation, CHP, bio-to-X, heat and gas network assets. You will typically:
Lead technical due diligence and technical advisory assignments supporting M&A, project finance, refinancing and infrastructure investment, managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating specialist inputs and coaching junior colleagues.
Assess the technical feasibility, performance, condition, risks and opportunities associated with operating assets and development projects, undertaking or overseeing feasibility studies, technical option assessments and techno-economic analysis.
Review engineering designs, technical specifications, EPC and O&M contracts, asset-management strategies, permits, warranties and other key project documentation.
Assess CAPEX, OPEX, development and lifecycle costs, maintenance strategies, availability and performance assumptions underpinning investment cases.
Review technology maturity, technology-provider capability, performance guarantees and project delivery strategies.
Identify material technical risks and opportunities, translating engineering findings into clear implications for valuation, investment decisions, financing and business plans.
Present technical findings, recommendations and risk assessments clearly to investment committees, lenders, developers and senior client stakeholders.
Develop trusted relationships with infrastructure funds, private-equity investors, lenders, developers and energy companies.
Support the development of Baringa's Technical Advisory capability, including methodologies, quality assurance, knowledge development and coaching of junior team members.
Turn complex and often incomplete technical information into clear findings and recommendations through reports, risk registers and presentations to investment committees, lenders and senior client stakeholders, and take part in Q&A sessions, management meetings and site visits.
Your skills and experience
You will typically have 7 to 9 years of relevant professional experience, although we welcome candidates outside this range with particularly relevant experience.
You will have a strong foundation in mechanical, chemical or process, energy or environmental engineering, supported by a relevant degree, equivalent qualification or substantial practical experience.
You will have a proven record of leading technical due diligence, Lender's Technical Advisor assignments or comparable investor-facing technical assessments. This includes assessing capital and operating expenditure, identifying material technical and investment risks, and owning key deliverables such as TDD reports and red flag presentations. This experience must go beyond engineering design review, market modelling or general management consulting.
You will have in-depth, hands-on experience of one or more of: CCGT and OCGT; reciprocating gas engines and flexible gas peakers; CHP and cogeneration; bio-to-X and low-carbon fuels; heat networks; or gas transmission and distribution networks. This includes performance, condition and lifecycle cost assessment.
You will have experience managing assignments and multidisciplinary teams, and acting as a trusted point of contact for senior client stakeholders.
You will be able to explain how engineering findings affect cost, risk, deliverability and value, clearly and concisely, to senior decision-makers.
What a career at Baringa will give you
Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.