Consultant, Transactions

ERM•New York, NY

23h•$83,630 - $91,421•Hybrid

About The Position

Lead the Future of Sustainable Infrastructure Investing Step into a strategic, high‑impact role as a Consultant, Transactions within ERM’s M&A Infrastructure Service Line—based in Houston, Denver, or Manhattan. Here, your technical expertise will shape some of the world’s most influential infrastructure investments. You’ll partner with industry‑leading ERM Partners, advise top financial institutions, and deliver insights that guide multi‑billion‑dollar decisions across global energy and infrastructure markets. This is more than consulting—it’s influencing the future of sustainable development. At ERM, sustainability is our business. As the largest pure‑play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations to unlock commercial opportunity while protecting environmental and social value for future generations. Why This Role Matters Infrastructure is at the center of the energy transition, decarbonization, and economic resilience. ERM’s M&A team—50+ specialists in technical, ESG, and EHS due diligence—is expanding to meet growing client demand. As a Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening our infrastructure offering and delivering high‑quality technical due diligence to infrastructure funds, private equity firms, investment banks, and energy companies. Your work directly informs buy‑side, sell‑side, and project finance decisions across global markets. What Your Impact Is In this role, you will: Shape investment strategies by evaluating technical, operational, and business‑plan performance of infrastructure assets. Lead the delivery of proposals and develop scopes, schedules, company profiles, and commercial terms. Coordinate key project milestones—Q&A submissions, management sessions, meetings, and final report delivery. Collaborate across multidisciplinary technical communities and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to bring the strongest insights to clients. Strengthen the Infrastructure Service Line by contributing to internal development, tools, and best practices. Your expertise will directly influence capital allocation, asset performance, and sustainability outcomes across the infrastructure sector. At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation. With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor. Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action. Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world. We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.

Requirements

Solid academic background with an engineering bias (e.g., Civil, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering). Or equivalent experience.
2-3 years of technical consulting, engineering, or operational experience in the energy or infrastructure sectors.
Strong technical capability to identify risks and opportunities within technical documentation, site visits, and discussions—covering asset integrity, operational performance, management systems, and business plans.
Excellent organizational skills, self‑motivation, and ability to thrive in fast‑turnaround environments.
Commitment to quality and high standards for yourself and the team.
Advanced report writing and presentation skills, with previous client‑facing experience.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing external client projects.
Ability to lead or coordinate complex project delivery involving multiple workstreams.
Prior exposure to technical due diligence (preferred, not required).
Corporate finance qualification.
Interest in domestic and international travel for site visits.
Knowledge of Capex and Opex cost expectations for engineering assets/projects.
Familiarity with decarbonization strategies and technologies.
Experience reviewing EPC contracts, Financial Models, engineering designs/specifications, and budgets for industrial projects.

Responsibilities

Lead the delivery of proposals, including company profile development, scopes of work, schedules, and commercial terms.
Assist or lead projects that evaluate technical, operational, and business‑plan components of infrastructure investments.
Coordinate project deliverables such as Q&A submissions, management sessions, client meetings, and report delivery.
Work effectively across ERM technical communities and subcontracted SMEs to support successful project execution and client engagement.
Execute internal development tasks to enhance the Infrastructure Service Line’s tools, processes, and overall functionality.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.

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