Consultant/Senior Consultant – Technical Advisory

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 provide

integrated 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 electrification s.

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 tec