Sr Strategic Advisor Offshore Wind (NORFOLK, VA)

Job Summary

Provides senior, strategic risk advisory leadership for Dominion Energy’s offshore wind portfolio by integrating regulatory, permitting, and compliance requirements into decision grade insights that protect schedule, cost, and construction readiness for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) Commercial Project(s). Serves as a trusted advisor to the Vice President Offshore Wind and Director Offshore Wind by proactively identifying emerging regulatory and stakeholder risks, framing mitigation options, and translating complex federal, state, and local requirements into actionable executive recommendations.Establishes and maintains the integrated permitting and compliance operating rhythm and executive visibility tools, ensuring leadership has clear insight into regulatory status, critical path risks, and required decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Risk Advisory & Executive Enablement
- Identify, assess, and frame emerging regulatory, permitting, stakeholder, and external interface risks affecting offshore wind project schedule, cost, and construction readiness.
- Develop decision grade mitigation options and recommendations for executive leadership, translating complex federal, state, and local requirements into actionable insights.
- Maintain executive level situational awareness of critical path regulatory and compliance risks across CVOW Commercial Project(s).

Integrated Permitting & Compliance Governance
- Establish and manage the integrated permitting and compliance operating rhythm, including executive dashboards, weekly permitting/compliance briefs, action trackers, and risk registers.
- Ensure leadership has clear, timely visibility into regulatory status, key dependencies, decision points, and escalation items.
- Govern information discipline and controlled records management associated with regulatory communications and compliance activities.

Safety, Emergency Preparedness, and Environmental Interface Governance
- Provide cross functional governance and alignment of safety, environmental, and emergency preparedness expectations as they intersect with offshore wind permitting and execution.
- Support Safety Management System (SMS) governance, ISO 45001 audit readiness, contractor safety culture alignment, and offshore training and competency requirements (e.g., GWO), in coordination with the Safety organization.
- Advise and participate in updates to Emergency Response Plans (ERP) and Oil Spill Response Plans (OSRP) to maintain regulatory compliance and operational readiness.

Agency & External Stakeholder Engagement
- Cultivate and maintain senior level relationships with regulatory agencies to align permitting milestones with project schedule and commercial requirements.
- Act as an authorized Dominion Energy representative in regulatory and stakeholder engagements supporting current and future offshore wind development.
- Communicate and coordinate with key stakeholders, including the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Navy (USN), commercial fishing representatives, Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC), and other state and federal agencies, in support of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and related regulatory processes.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:  

• 10+ years leading complex, cross-functional initiatives (direct, matrixed, and/or external partners), with demonstrated ability to drive outcomes through influence.
• Demonstrated strategic risk management capability: identify, assess, and mitigate major schedule, cost, and compliance drivers; provide decision-grade options and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Advanced offshore wind regulatory/permitting fluency, including key agencies (BOEM, BSEE, USCG) and related stakeholder engagement processes.
• Working knowledge of maritime/installation integration, including WTIV interfaces and Jones Act constraints, with ability to translate regulatory requirements into execution risks and mitigations.
• Strong executive communication: produce crisp dashboards/briefings, proposals, and reports; communicate effectively with internal/external audiences, including public presentations.
• Demonstrated analytical and information-discipline skills: use project metrics/tools (Microsoft applications and common scheduling/project tools) and appropriately safeguard controlled information.
• Demonstrated ability to support and govern Safety Management System (SMS) expectations in offshore/industrial environments, including ISO 45001 audit readiness, contractor oversight, and offshore training/competency requirements (e.g., GWO) as applicable.
• Working knowledge of emergency preparedness and response documentation and governance (e.g., ERP and OSRP), and the ability to coordinate time-sensitive, regulated communications (including controlled information such as SSI) across internal stakeholders and external agencies.

Education Requirements

Education Level:

If degree is listed as preferred, then the degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred degree.  If degree is listed as required,  then the equivalency is not accepted in lieu of required degree.

Bachelor’s degree preferred in Engineering, Environmental Science, Marine Science/Marine Affairs, Business, Public Policy/Public Administration, or a related field.

Master’s degree preferred in Master of Business Administration (MBA), Engineering, Environmental/Marine Policy, Public Policy/Public Administration, or a related discipline.

Contact your HR Business Partner for other discipline(s) that may be substituted, if substitution permissible.

Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description

Required: None. Preferred: PMP and/or PE.

Offshore access credentials (e.g., GWO Basic Safety Training/Sea Survival and valid offshore medical) may be required for assignments involving offshore site visits.

Working Conditions

Other Working Conditions

Test Description

No Testing Required