DescriptionDNV Energy Systems Energy Management group is seeking a Program Director to join our Energy Management team. Our team helps commercial and industrial utility customers save energy and money. The successful candidate will possess strong interpersonal and organizational skills and will be responsible for a team of administrative and outreach individuals setting team goals and leading process improvement efforts for the program. This position is based in our Des Moines Iowa office.
This role is based at our DNV office in Des Moines IA presenting a dynamic hybrid schedule where employees will typically spend three (3) days per week working from either a DNV office or client location/site. Further details regarding rolespecific requirements will be shared during the interview process.
What Youll Do
- Develop vision and goals for the team in alignment with Section and Departmentlevel Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Monitor project billing against internal and client budgets savings goals and resource utilization
- Gather intelligence and obtain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the clients business issues and challenges
- Develop and implement an operations strategy that will meet utility defined performance financial and energy efficiency savings goals
- Monitor program results including energy savings quality assurance and develop recommendations to continuously improve the program under ISO 9001 standards
- Monitor application data entry database management database update and maintenance
- Implement outreach strategy to generate leads and support market participants guide outreach staff activity and reporting.
- Ensure Distributors are trained and supported in the Program Rules and Processes
- Assist managers with effective facilitation of team and client meetings including preparing agendas taking minutes tracking action items and proactively following up on action items
- Assist the marketing team and client to develop effective campaigns and collateral to be used by Distributors
Responsibilities- Generous paid time off (vacation sick days company holidays personal days)
- Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from Vision benefits
- Spending accounts FSA Dependent Care Commuter Benefits companyseeded HSA
- Employerpaid therapistled virtual care services through Talkspace
- 401(k) with company match
- Company provided life insurance shortterm and longterm disability benefits
- Education reimbursement program
- Flexible work schedule with hybrid opportunities
- Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
- Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
- Career advancement opportunities
**Benefits vary based on position tenure location and employee election**
DNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. US applicants with a physical or mental disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact the North America Recruitment Department (). Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
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is Required
- Bachelors Degree required
- Minimum of 10 years of operational staff management or project management experience in a technical environment preferably in a regulated industry (government and/or utility)
- Ability to work positively with the wide range of individuals involved in program management
- Demonstrated success delivering complex programs within budget
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Strong communication skills as demonstrated by experience with presentations papers or other public forums; strong reportwriting skills
- We conduct preemployment drug and background screening
What is Preferred
- Bachelors Degree in business engineering or technical discipline preferred
- An energy efficiency background with a solid knowledge of energy efficient technologies and practices is strongly preferred.
- Technical Competencies
- Knowledge of commercial HVAC commercial kitchen and various lighting technologies
- Knowledge of operational process workflows and manage through operational metrics
- Intermediate Excel skills including pivot tables simple look ups and graphing
- Intermediate MS Word skills including working with document templates
- Intermediate MS PowerPoint skills
- General Competencies
- Provide leadership through setting goals delegating to utilize employee strength coaching and fostering teamwork.
- Ensure field staff meet program quality and services standards implementing training plans or other measures to ensure that staff is equipped to deliver expected results to our customers.
- Communicate with impact authenticity and empathy
- Proactive in customer follow up and communications
- Entrepreneurial sales professional selfstarter and strong time management skills
- Able to work under tight deadlines
- Provide resources and support for Trade Allies contractors and customers
- Explain technical information for nontechnical audiences
**Immigrationrelated employment benefits for example visa sponsorship are not available for this position**