Junior Project Development Manager

Recruiter:

Good Help Recruitment

Job Ref:

JHB000065/NP

Date posted:

Monday, October 24, 2022

Location:

Capetown, South Africa

Salary:

Market Related

JOB SUMMARY:
Introduction
One of the world’s leading renewable energy companies and a leading international energy project development company, with more than 1,000 employees worldwide is looking for a Junior Project Development Manager (m/f/d), you will be required to manage various projects and the development tasks necessary. Depending on each market and business model, these tasks variously include site selection, land acquisition, plant layout, permitting and the commercial negotiations for the sale of equity and procurement of goods and services. These tasks cover the development phase through financial close to construction phase support. You will also be asked to assist with some general team administration tasks, providing a limited amount of redundancy to the Team Assistant.
The business is focused on deploying the highest quality Solar Photovoltaic and Onshore Wind energy projects. Our client offers Project Development (Wind & Solar), Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for the transition to greater utilisation of sustainable energy globally and are also recognised leaders in off-grid hybrid solar-wind-thermal-storage energy solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Duties and Responsibilities

Project management of multiple wind, solar and hybrid projects in various stages of development, ensuring completion within budget and on schedule:
Develop an understanding of the relationship between site selection, technical design and project economics in order to be able to develop the best possible projects (optimised at capex or tariff level)
Using GIS and other tools, assisting in the identification of project sites.
Assisting with landowner negotiations.
Establishment and management of the project budget.
Assisting with plant design tasks including turbine, PV array, road, and electrical layouts.
Management of the various project licensing tasks including liaising with the statutory organisations that administer the various approvals and permits necessary.
Assisting with procurement of construction commodities.
Assisting with procurement of key components.
Assisting with investor selection processes.
Assisting in tender submissions.
Assisting with high level financial modelling processes.
Project risk mitigation and reporting.
Recording and reporting of project progress.
Project development support to the C&I Sales, EPC Sales and Hybrid Sales teams; depending on the particular project, such support being varying combinations of the above tasks.
Participation in project and programme reviews when required.

General assistance to the Department
Assistance across a variety of tasks including:

Permit applications.
Invoice processing.
Project scheduling and costs.
Participation within meetings and preparation of meeting minutes.
Maintenance of electronic and hard copy filing system incl. virtual datarooms.
Occasional travel to established and potential project sites across the country.
Provide general administration support to the Project Development team, e.g., summary of documents, investigate/track competitor movements, etc.
You may also be asked to participate in field trips and renewable energy (RE) related seminars.

Qualifications and Experience:

Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or Environmental Science is preferable
Experience in Engineering, GIS or Environmental Science through tertiary education/apprenticeship training will be an advantage.
Background knowledge in the field of renewable energy will be preferable, particularly a conceptual understanding of wind and solar energy.
Proficiency in MS Office (especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) is required, while knowledge and proficiency in GIS Packages such as Google Earth, ArcGIS or similar will be an advantage.
A good team player.
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, whilst an additional local language will be an advantage.
Thorough and diligent in your work.
Self-motivated, proactive and reliable.
Able to work under pressure and independently.
Effective and efficient organizational skills.
Able to manage different tasks simultaneously.
Have a keen interest in the renewable energy industry.
High degree of flexibility is essential as overtime may be required during busy periods.
Intercultural understanding and the ability to work within an international work environment are important.

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