Nexant, Smart Grid & Efficiency

Friday, November 25, 2011

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Nexant, Smart Grid Sector (what's that?)

Location: San Francisco headquarters, 31 U.S./global offices

Size: 200 - 500 employees (source: Linkedin), private

Jobs: >10 (explained)

Degrees sought: Mostly BS/MS engineers; MBAs occasionally

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Similar Sector Companies: Ecova, EnerNOC, Opower, Itron, Silver Spring Networks

Hired From: Colorado, Chicago, Duke, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Yale (explained)

What They Do And What You Could Do For Them

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Several sentences, from Nexant's website, describing what they do:

"Nexant is a provider of intelligent grid software and clean energy solutions—pioneering, developing, and advancing electric power grid and alternative energy technologies and services. Nexant's innovative software manages energy efficiency, demand side management, demand response, and distributed generation. We provide advisory services for developing and commercializing advanced clean energy technologies as well as supplying technical, operational, and strategic consulting to oil, gas, and chemical majors, energy resource companies, technology owners, governments, and investors."

Examples of jobs offered by Nexant: (explained)

Project Analyst, Energy Efficiency & Carbon Management (EECM) group: EECM provides advanced analytic and strategic consulting services to energy companies, utilities, governments, and non-profit organizations. Work independently and in teams to manage research projects and participate in research efforts. Exercise independent judgment on the efficacy of research methods, ensuring consistency with accepted statistical approaches. Develop survey instruments and research design.
Conduct primary and secondary data collection efforts as well as data analysis.

Finance MBA Intern: The Finance MBA Intern will support Nexant's overall Corporate Development and FP&A functions in addition to serving as the Business Unit's corporate partner. The Finance MBA Intern is expected to interface with all parts of the Finance & Accounting group and executive management in addition to the business unit leads and project managers to ensure seamless and responsive communication to requests for analysis and information. This individual will be strongly motivated and a self-starter.

Engineer: Responsible for technical engineering support for Nexant's Energy Efficiency and Carbon Management business unit. Determine eligibility of energy efficiency/conservation projects to incentive programs. Conduct site visits at commercial and industrial facilities to verify installation and operation of baseline and replacement energy using equipment, and document/report findings.

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Page Notes: "Sector"- is a Source: Wikipedia

"Jobs:" The number of jobs we have founded to be listed by this company on their website or on another job board since early 2010.

"Examples of Jobs:" Excerpts from job descriptions Dayaway has re-listed since 2010. While these jobs may or may not open up in the future, we feel that they are representative of future positions.

"Hiring From:" This company has hired recent graduates (BS, BA, MS, MA, MBA and/or PhDs) from these schools.

Legal Stuff: The company covered above does not endorse, sponsor or pay Dayaway Careers LLC in any way; odds are it doesn't even know Dayaway. Its name and logos are registered trademarks belonging exclusively to it. We covered the company because we feel it is growing by making a difference and hiring young professionals doing the same. That's our independent opinion and we're sticking to it.