Program Director

Company: RWE Renewables, Americas
Location: Des Moines
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Overview

About us

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

DNV - 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 role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.

What You'll Do

• Develop vision and goals for the team, in alignment with Section- and Department-level 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 client's 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
  What we offer
  
  
  • 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, company-seeded HSA
  • Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term 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 (hrrecruitment.northamerica@dnv.com). Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
    
    For more information
    
    
    About you
    
    What is Required
    
    • Bachelor's 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 report-writing skills
    • We conduct pre-employment drug and background screening
      What is Preferred
      
      • Bachelor's 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 - self-starter 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 non-technical audiences
          **Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are not available for this position**
          
          What we offer
          
          
          • 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, company-seeded HSA
          • Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
          • 401(k) with company match
          • Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term 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 (hrrecruitment.northamerica@dnv.com). Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
            
            For more information
            
            
            About you
            
            What is Required
            
            • Bachelor's 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 report-writing skills
            • We conduct pre-employment drug and background screening
              What is Preferred
              
              • Bachelor's 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 - self-starter 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 non-technical audiences
                  **Immigration-related employment benefits, for example visa sponsorship, are not available for this position**
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