Senior vp service area manager

Are you a strategic, growth-minded leader with a strong commercial focus and a passion for guiding multidisciplinary teams? DNV is seeking a Service Area Manager / Senior Vice President to lead our Mid/Downstream and Labs service area, which supports clients in enhancing the safety, reliability, and compliance of their pipeline portfolios.

This senior leadership role is responsible for driving growth, profitability, and operational excellence, while ensuring the long-term performance of the service area. You will provide strategic direction, strengthen client relationships, and foster a high-performance culture built on collaboration, innovation, and employee development. A strong foundation in Materials Science, pipeline integrity, and laboratory testing will enable you to guide multidisciplinary teams and deliver innovative solutions that meet client needs in an evolving energy landscape.

This role is based at our DNV office in Columbus, Ohio, 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:

• Provide Strategic Leadership: Lead the execution of initiatives that align with the DNV strategy and ensure long-term business success, focusing on revenue growth, profitability, service innovation, and talent development.
• Drive operational excellence: Enhance efficiency, optimize business operations, and promote sustainable performance while encouraging innovation.
• Expand customer relationships: Champion business development initiatives that leverage our expertise in pipeline integrity, corrosion and material performance to deepen client partnerships and open opportunities for new engagements.
• Lead people and culture: Inspire, guide, and empower about 125 employees to perform at their best, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and accountability.
• Ensure quality of service: Strive for consistent, high-quality delivery of materials testing, forensic investigations and compliance assessments that exceeds customer expectations.
• Represent industry leadership: Position DNV as a trusted advisor by promoting thought leadership and representing the company at industry events.
• Collaboration: Work effectively with other units within DNV, as well as business partners, to maximize value for our customers.

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 a proud equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, or business need, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. DNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. US applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact the North America Recruitment Department ([email protected]). Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

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About you

What is Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of industry experience, with significant leadership responsibility.
• 10+ years leading high-performing, multidisciplinary teams in a global, matrixed environment.
• Great communication and people leadership skills demonstrated by past work experience.
• Proven ability to design initiatives to execute strategy, grow businesses across customer segments, and deliver commercial results.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to drive thought leadership in Materials Science and pipeline reliability.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally for conferences, client, and internal meetings.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• We conduct pre-employment drug and background screening

What is Preferred

• Master’s degree in Materials Science, engineering, business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Materials Science applications in energy infrastructure, failure analysis, and pipeline integrity.

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.