Consultant/Senior Consultant – Technical Advisory

Baringa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks annual leave + 2 weeks (5+2

Hybrid working policy

Profit Share Scheme

Job summary

Baringa is seeking an experienced Consultant/Senior Consultant for its Technical Advisory practice in the UK. You will join a team delivering integrated technical and commercial advisory across infrastructure investors, lenders and public sector clients, focusing on decarbonisation, industrial energy efficiency and district heating.

You will work with engineers, technologists and business teams to develop robust analyses, prepare high-quality reports, risk registers and presentations, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a minimum of 5 years’ practical engineering experience in chemical, process, mechanical, thermal or energy disciplines.
• Master’s degree in engineering is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on complex energy-infrastructure, decarbonisation and industrial process decisions with clear commercial recommendations.
• Assess industrial processes and energy systems for carbon reduction.
• Evaluate energy technologies from gas-fired to heat pumps and decarbonisation solutions.
• Gather, analyse and model data to develop practical decarbonisation pathways.
• Translate technical findings into actionable implementation plans and client presentations.
• Support due diligence for energy and infrastructure transactions and liaise with engineering partners.

Skills

Energy engineering

Data analysis

Technical advisory

Report writing

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree desirable

Tools

Modelling

Job description

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 Consultant/Senior Consultant to join the team.

We provideintegrated technical and commercial advisory services to infrastructure investors, lenders, developers, utilities, corporates and public-sector organisations. Our work connects asset-level technical analysis with business plans, lifecycle costs, financing and investment decisions across energy infrastructure, with this role particularly focused on industrial decarbonisation, process and non-process energy efficiency and district heating.

What you will be doing

• You will advise infrastructure investors, lenders, developers, utilities, corporates and public-sector organisations on complex energy-infrastructure, decarbonisation and industrial process decisions, combining robust engineering analysis with clear commercial and investment-focused recommendations.
• You will assess industrial processes and energy systems, considering how power, heat and fuels are generated, supplied and consumed, and what this means for clients’ carbon reduction ambitions.
• You will evaluate existing and emerging energy technologies, from established gas-fired and cogeneration systems to heat pumps, clean fuels, low-carbon generation and other decarbonisation solutions.
• You will undertake data gathering, analysis and modelling to develop practical decarbonisation pathways and compare different asset implementation scenarios.
• You will assess technical and techno-economic feasibility, including development expenditure, capital expenditure, operating expenditure, lifecycle costs, delivery schedules, supply chain constraints, operational risks and potential funding or policy support. You will help clients set achievable sustainability and decarbonisation objectives, identify risks and opportunities, and translate your findings into sequenced implementation plans, liaising with both client technical teams and external engineering partners to progress projects to pre-FID.
• You will support technical and commercial due diligence for energy and infrastructure transactions, potentially covering technologies such as district heating, bio-to-x, industrial electrifications.
• You will review technical business plans, engineering studies, key contracts and development, capex and opex expenditure assumptions, testing whether asset performance, maintenance, refurbishment requirements are appropriately reflected in the investment case.
• You will work directly with clients, incumbent engineers, technical advisers and Baringa subject-matter experts, including participating in site visits and gathering first-hand information about assets and operations.
• You will prepare high-quality reports, risk registers, models and presentations that make translate complex technical findings into clear and accessible to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders.
• You will contribute across multidisciplinary teams spanning engineering, energy markets, strategy, transactions, data and analytics, bringing together different perspectives to solve clients’ most important problems.
• You will support the development of junior colleagues while continuing to build your own capabilities as a rounded technical and commercial adviser.

Your skills and experience

• You will have a Bachelor’s degree, equivalent qualification or a minimum of 5 years’ substantial practical experience in chemical, process, mechanical, thermal, energy, or another relevant engineering discipline. An additional Master’s degree in an engineering discipline is desirable.
• You will have experience analysing industrial processes, energy-intensive assets or generation technologies, with an understanding of energy demand, supply, efficiency and associated carbon impacts.
• You will be comfortable working with complex technical information and using quantitative analysis, data and modelling to develop evidence-based conclusions.
• You will have experience contributing to technical feasibility, technical due diligence, asset assessment, optimisation, decarbonisation or engineering advisory projects.
• You will understand the relationship between engineering decisions and wider commercial considerations, including cost, risk, deliverability and investment outcomes.
• You will be able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and confidently through well-structured reports, presentations and discussions.

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

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.

• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed.

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