Utility Advisory Consultant (all levels)

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are about 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defense and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

Job Description

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Utilities

Are you passionate about driving change in the energy and utilities sector? As a Utility Advisor, you’ll work on some of the most pressing challenges facing the industry, from accelerating the energy transition balancing a heighted resiliency and affordability focus against clean energy goals to leveraging data and AI for smarter operations and being a policy, commercial and market advisor on some of the largest utility M&A transactions in North America each year. You’ll collaborate with forward-thinking clients and a team of experts to decipher long term industry uncertainties and deliver innovative strategies and solutions that make a real impact. Whether you’re starting your consulting journey or bringing years of experience, this is your opportunity to grow, lead, and help shape a more resilient, sustainable future.

Qualifications

As a Utility Advisor, you’ll join a dynamic consulting team partnering with leading utility clients on critical initiatives such as:

• Business transformation and energy transition and decarbonization strategies
• Data insights and AI applications
• Utility strategy, operations, and systems advisory reliability, and resiliency
• Customer transformation and digital innovation
• Notably, PA’s energy and utility US team has leading expertise around critical areas such energy markets, energy policy, utility rates, and resiliency/reliability

From day one, you’ll apply and grow your analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills while contributing to high-impact projects that shape the future of the utility sector.

Key Responsibilities

Depending on your level, you will:

• Conduct research, gather and interpret data, and perform quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Develop insights and contribute to client deliverables including reports, presentations, and strategic frameworks
• Support and lead stakeholder engagement, workshops, and transformation initiatives
• Lead workstreams or small engagements, growing into larger programs over time
• Contribute to proposals and business development efforts
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality outcomes and continuous learning

What We’re Looking For

• 3 to 10+ years of utility experience, whether it be industry or consulting
• Electric, gas, water/wastewater utility or related advisory experience
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint (or willingness to learn)
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in dynamic environments
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple tasks
• Passion for solving complex problems and driving change in the energy and utilities space
• Interest in strategy, digital transformation, data, and AI applications in utilities
• Willingness to travel

For Mid & Senior Levels 

• Previous consulting, utility or regulatory experience leading workstreams or engagements of various sizes
• Strong client-facing skills and ability to manage complex projects
• Comfort contributing to proposals and shaping solutions for clients

You’ll Be Successful Here If…

• You’re proactive, curious, and enjoy figuring things out
• You have an entrepreneurial streak and can hit the ground running, whether leading or contributing to engagements

Additional Information

Additional information

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site or at the office.

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

Benefits package at PA  

• Group medical insurance  
• Health Savings Account with company match  
• Teladoc and informed Nurse line resources  
• Long term care plan  
• Group dental insurance  
• Vision plan  
• 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit sharing contribution  
• Commuter and Parking tax-savings benefit  
• 15 days paid vacation days with the opportunity to buy five additional days  
• 10 paid Holidays plus 10 paid sick days  
• Company and Voluntary income protection benefits  
• Gym and health incentive reimbursement  
• Pet and legal insurance Plans  
• Employee Assistance Plan  
• Annual performance-based bonus  

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

In compliance with Colorado’s, New York & Massachusetts's Equal Pay Transparency Act, PA is required to provide a reasonable salary range for this role.   

Salary Range: 120k-250k

This salary range is specific to the State of Colorado and is commensurate with experience, market data, applicant skills, internal equity and/or degrees/certifications.

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