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We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence. As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About Energy Systems

We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.

About The Role

Are you an experienced engineer with hands‑on expertise in rotating equipment across both wind and thermal generation? Do you thrive on diagnosing complex equipment behavior, understanding failure mechanisms, and translating those insights into meaningful guidance for technical and investment decisions?

DNV Energy Systems North America is seeking a Rotating Machinery Senior Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) in rotating machinery to support advisory services across Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A;), Independent Engineering (IE), and Owner’s Engineering (OE).

This role is designed for engineers with strong practical experience in both (that can be applied) thermal rotating equipment and wind turbine drivetrain systems. Candidates bring deep understanding of equipment behavior, failure mechanisms, and maintenance strategy, and are experienced in applying root cause analysis and reliability engineering to real-world assets.

Our advisory work spans the full project lifecycle, requiring the ability to assess equipment condition and performance and translate those findings into clear, decision-grade insights for developers, owners, lenders, and investors.

Location

This role is based at our DNV Advisory offices in Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON and Calgary, AB 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. Other DNV locations in North America may also be considered.

What You’ll Do

- Serve as DNV’s rotating machinery SME across advisory engagements involving both thermal generation (priority) and wind generation assets.
- Lead technical evaluations of equipment and portfolios, including:
- Gas turbines, steam turbines, and associated generator systems
- Wind turbine generators and drivetrain systems (gearboxes, bearings, shafts)

- Assess asset condition, performance, and reliability using operating data, inspection findings, maintenance history, and failure trends across both wind and thermal technologies.
- Evaluate equipment behavior under different operating regimes (e.g., cycling and load-following in thermal assets, variable wind conditions and transient loads in wind turbines).
- Support technical due diligence, independent engineering, and owner’s engineering scopes, including:

- Review of turbine systems, drivetrain components, and plant configurations
- Assessment of asset condition, operational performance, and reliability risk
- Evaluation of operations and maintenance practices, including major maintenance strategies (overhauls, gearbox replacements, outage planning)
- Validation of technical inputs to financial models, including availability, performance, and lifecycle costs
- Participation in site visits, inspections, and technical interviews

- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for rotating equipment failures across both wind and thermal assets, including wind turbine generators, gearboxes, bearings, and turbine-generator systems

- Identify failure modes, assess recurrence risk, and recommend mitigation strategies based on reliability engineering principles
- Interpret and contextualize RCA findings and failure history to inform asset-level risk, performance expectations, and investment decisions
- Provide independent technical judgment, constructively challenging assumptions and conclusions to ensure alignment with observed equipment behavior

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate rotating machinery insights into broader engineering, financial, and transaction evaluations. Support client interactions, including diligence discussions, workshops, and technical reviews.
- Contribute to technical reports and client deliverables, synthesizing complex findings into transparent, concise, and decision-oriented insights.




- Mentor team members and contribute to building internal capability in rotating machinery across wind and thermal technologies.

Working English

Considering that this position requires English proficiency, the recruitment process will be conducted in English. Please inform us immediately if you prefer the process to be conducted in French. In this case, you will still be assessed on your proficiency in English during the process.

Benefits

- Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefit plans available to all employees
- Special programs – Employee Assistance Program and accident and critical illness options for you and your family
- Workplace strategies for mental help resources available to all employees
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with company match
- Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
- Education Assistance Program
- Flexible work schedule with hybrid opportunities
- Consumer discounts and rewards through our BenefitsHub
- Advancement opportunities
- Benefits may vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election**
- Congés payés généreux (vacances, jours de maladie, jours fériés d'entreprise, jours personnels)
- Régimes d'assurance médicale, dentaire et visuelle offerts à tous les employés
- Programmes spéciaux – Programme d'aide aux employés et options d'assurance en cas d'accident ou de maladie grave pour vous et votre famille
- Stratégies en milieu de travail pour les ressources d'aide mentale offertes à tous les employés
- Régime enregistré d'épargne-retraite (REER) avec contribution de l'entreprise
- L'entreprise a fourni des prestations d'assurance-vie, d'invalidité de courte et de longue durée
- Programme d'aide à l'éducation
- Horaire de travail flexible avec possibilités hybrides
- Remises et récompenses pour les consommateurs grâce à notre BenefitsHub
- Possibilités d'avancement
- Les avantages peuvent varier en fonction du poste, de la durée, de l'emplacement et de l'élection de l'employé**

About You

What is Required

- A Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mechanical preferred, or related discipline).
- A minimum of Eight (8) years of experience in rotating machinery, with demonstrated expertise (that can be applied) across both:
- A strong thermal rotating machinery foundation
- Demonstrated wind drivetrain or wind turbine generator exposure

- Demonstrated experience evaluating equipment condition, performance, and reliability in operational environments.
- Strong experience conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and failure investigations for rotating equipment
- Familiarity with reliability engineering principles, including failure modes, degradation mechanisms, and lifecycle risk.
- Experience supporting operations, maintenance, or asset management, including major maintenance events (e.g., gearbox replacements, turbine overhauls, outage planning).
- Familiarity with energy project lifecycle elements and key contracts (EPC, O&M;) and how equipment performance impacts project risk and value.
- Ability to interpret complex technical data and translate findings into clear, structured insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong AI and digital fluency, with the ability to evaluate AI-generated outputs, apply critical thinking, ensure quality and accuracy, and utilize AI responsibly within company governance frameworks.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to approximately 20% of the time.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills as the employee would be required to serve customers by email and by phone, both in Quebec, in the rest of Canada, and in the United States.
- We conduct pre-employment drug and background screening.

What Is Preferred

- Experience within an OEM, major service provider, or fleet engineering organization supporting rotating equipment.
- Experience supporting or interfacing with technical due diligence, project development, or engineering advisory work.
- Personal Qualifications and Skills we are looking for in a successful candidate:
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to independently assess rotating equipment across both wind and thermal systems
- Practical, operations-focused mindset grounded in real-world equipment behavior and failure mechanisms
- Ability to diagnose complex equipment issues and connect failure modes to operating conditions and maintenance practices
- Clear communicator able to translate complex reliability and engineering concepts into actionable insights
- Effective in multidisciplinary environments, integrating equipment-level expertise into broader technical and financial evaluations




- Comfortable working in fast-paced and ambiguous environments, focusing effort on the issues most relevant to decision-makers
- Strong ownership of technical quality, delivering high-integrity and defensible analyses
- Collaborative team player who supports knowledge sharing and contributes to building team capability
- Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are not available for this position

Ce qui est requis

- Baccalauréat en génie (génie mécanique de préférence ou discipline connexe).
- Minimum de huit (8) années d’expérience en machines tournantes, avec une expertise démontrée applicable dans les deux domaines suivants :
- Solide expérience des équipements rotatifs utilisés dans les installations de production thermique.
- Expérience démontrée des systèmes de transmission mécanique des éoliennes ou des génératrices d’éoliennes.

- Expérience démontrée dans l’évaluation de l’état, de la performance et de la fiabilité des équipements en environnement d’exploitation.
- Solide expérience dans la réalisation d’analyses des causes fondamentales (RCA) et d’enquêtes sur les défaillances d’équipements rotatifs.
- Bonne connaissance des principes de l’ingénierie de la fiabilité, notamment les modes de défaillance, les mécanismes de dégradation et les risques associés au cycle de vie des actifs.
- Expérience en soutien aux activités d’exploitation, de maintenance ou de gestion d’actifs, y compris lors d’interventions majeures de maintenance (par exemple : remplacement de multiplicateurs de vitesse, révisions majeures de turbines et planification des arrêts).
- Connaissance des différentes phases du cycle de vie des projets énergétiques ainsi que des principaux contrats (EPC et O&M;), et compréhension de l’incidence de la performance des équipements sur les risques et la valeur des projets.
- Capacité à interpréter des données techniques complexes et à traduire les résultats en analyses claires, structurées et exploitables pour des parties prenantes tant techniques que non techniques.
- Solide maîtrise des outils numériques et de l’intelligence artificielle (IA), avec la capacité d’évaluer de façon critique les résultats générés par l’IA, d’exercer un jugement éclairé, d’assurer la qualité et l’exactitude de l’information, et d’utiliser l’IA de manière responsable conformément aux politiques de l’entreprise et à ses cadres de gouvernance.
- Disponibilité et capacité à effectuer des déplacements professionnels jusqu’à environ 20 % du temps.
- Excellentes compétences en communication écrite et orale en anglais, puisque le titulaire du poste devra servir des clients par téléphone et par courriel au Québec, dans le reste du Canada et aux États-Unis.
- Une vérification préalable à l’emploi, comprenant une vérification des antécédents et un dépistage de drogues, sera effectuée.

Atouts recherchés

- Expérience au sein d’un fabricant d’équipement d’origine (OEM), d’un important fournisseur de services ou d’une organisation d’ingénierie de flotte soutenant des équipements rotatifs.
- Expérience en soutien ou en collaboration avec des activités de diligence raisonnable technique, de développement de projets ou de services‑conseils en ingénierie.
- Qualités et compétences personnelles recherchées Nous recherchons une personne possédant les qualités et compétences suivantes :
- Solide jugement technique et capacité à évaluer de façon autonome les équipements rotatifs dans les secteurs de l’énergie thermique et éolienne.
- Approche pratique axée sur les opérations, fondée sur une compréhension approfondie du comportement réel des équipements et des mécanismes de défaillance.
- Capacité à diagnostiquer des problèmes complexes liés aux équipements et à établir des liens entre les modes de défaillance, les conditions d’exploitation et les pratiques de maintenance.
- Excellentes aptitudes en communication, permettant de traduire des concepts complexes de fiabilité et d’ingénierie en recommandations claires, concrètes et exploitables.
- Capacité à évoluer efficacement dans des environnements multidisciplinaires, en intégrant une expertise spécialisée des équipements à des évaluations techniques, financières et transactionnelles plus larges.
- Aisance à travailler dans des environnements dynamiques et ambigus, tout en centrant ses efforts sur les enjeux les plus pertinents pour les décideurs.
- Engagement marqué envers la qualité technique, avec la capacité de produire des analyses rigoureuses, objectives et solidement étayées.
- Esprit d’équipe et approche collaborative, favorisant le partage des connaissances et contribuant au développement des compétences et des capacités de l’équipe.
- Les avantages liés à l’immigration, tels que le parrainage de visa ou toute autre forme de soutien en matière d’immigration, ne sont pas offerts pour ce poste.

📌 Rotating Machinery Senior Engineer (Montreal)
🏢 DNV
📍 Montreal