Wind Project Engineer

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POSITION INFO:

Wind Project Engineer 

Market-related Package

Cape Town, South Africa

Purpose

The Project Engineer will be responsible for engineering activities for the company's projects, with limited supervision, with a particular focus on Wind technology. The Project Engineer would also be required to provide overall engineering support to all other workstreams, including environmental, commercial, permitting, project management, and development.

Key responsibilities:

• Assuming the role of Engineering Manager within a dedicated Project team environment during development, bid and/or implementation phase of projects in South Africa and sub?Saharan Africa with a primary focus on wind technologies
• Ability to work and complete tasks that are typically well?defined, but in limited cases may be broadly?defined
• Tasks for the Project Engineer and their project team would be driven by the Project Engineer with some direction offered from supervisor(s) or superior(s)
• Has full responsibility for their, and their project engineering team’s work output ; oversight would still be required on the quality of critical deliverables
• Project Engineer has built their technical competency focusing on wind technologies but other are also advantageous (such as PV, BESS, or Grid)
• Able to follow established engineering processes and procedures 
• Managing Engineering resources – both internal and external – required for a given project.
• Managing all engineering inputs into development, environmental, permitting, and procurement requirements
• Contracting and managing external Engineering resources and support, including front end or detailed engineering studies and design work.
• Defining technical/engineering specifications based on bid and/or employer’s requirements, project permits, environmental constraints, and technical limits.
• Ensuring compliance of contractor designs and technical evaluations with employers’ requirements, site specific requirements and industry best practice.

Qualifications and Experience

• Honors Degree in an Engineering or Science field (BSc, BTech or equivalent)
• 4 years engineering work experience in the renewable energy sector (utility?scale preferable)
• Software knowledge: WAsP/WindPRO experience (desirable)
• Excellent knowledge of MS 365 Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams.
• Proficient in MS Projects
• Proficient in AutoCAD or similar software