ENERTRAG South Africa: Project Development Planner Position

Location: Pretoria/Johannesburg, South Africa (Cape Town may be considered)
Salary: Based on experience and qualifications
Type of employment: Permanent employee
ENERTRAG South Africa is a medium sized renewable energy developer and is a subsidiary of ENERTRAG AG, an independent energy company in Germany and France. We are looking to employ an experienced project development planner – this is a growth opportunity and you will be directly responsible for growing the business by adapting to the changing phases and demands of various project lifecycles.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Project management and development support:

Provide support to both the commercial and industrial (C&I) and the REIPPPP (national and regional) projects in the following ways:

• Ensure project documentation (including contracts; land lease agreements; project plans, etc.) are filed and accessible with the support of the project administrator.
• Develop and maintain the project-related database for the company’s project portfolio (including project dashboards and schedules).
• Provide timely reports tracking the project portfolio timelines, costs and milestones.
• Procurement and application of project management software tools.
• Liaise with ENERTRAG AG by (i) using the various project management platforms; (ii) updating of legal SPV structure documents; and (iii) maintaining the ENERTRAG file structure.

2. Market intelligence

• Compile market intelligence from various internal and external sources for both the project development and operations portfolios.
• Provide insight into the latest technology developments (specifically wind energy technology)

3. Project development:

• Conducting technical due diligence of green field renewable energy projects in South Africa.
• Obtaining all development permits and authorisations in order.
• Evaluating resources and estimation of site energy yield.
• Obtaining all development permits and authorisation in order to reach compliance to bid in projects into government backed and private (large residential, commercial and industrial) procurement programmes (eg REIPPPP).
• Analysing wind resource information and reviewing permitting requirements, which include, inter-alia: wind resource assessments, environmental authorisations, land acquisition and evacuation of energy into the national transmission and distribution network.
• Supporting the team in bidding projects into a procurement window and provide ongoing attendance in bringing projects to financial close.

Qualifications:

• ­Three-year related qualification in administration and/or project management, i.e. B-degree
• Post-graduate qualification preferred
• One-year related experience

Requirements:

• ­ Business fluent in English, another South African official language and German are a plus
• Attention to detail and problem-solving ability
• Ability to work in, and support team to achieve project objectives
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivation and a proactive attitude to work

Closing date: 30 November 2019

To apply, please forward your CV and a short motivation (300 words max) to stephen.koopman@enertrag.com.

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