100% Fossil-free: We don't just dream of a sustainable and livable world - we shape it together and with passion! For over 20 years, we have been a driving force in the expansion of renewable energies. We generate, store and deliver green energy around the globe - with wind, solar, biogas and hydrogen. Around 1,000 employees at various locations worldwide share our mission: to generate renewable energy sustainably for a livable earth.   

Become a part of the ENERTRAG team at one of our locations in Cape Town / Johannesburg and let's advance the energy transition together. 

Project Environment

• Reviewing/approving GE02 / GE05 deadlines
• Attend EAP kick-off meetings
• Review specialist sensitivities (no-go kml)
• Attend CA Pre-application meetings
• Review listed activities (prior to DBAR/DEIAr release)
• Review water use authorization risk assessments (as required) prior to application commencement
• Review comment and response report
• Lead NGO engagement/problem solving – be ESA touch point and Lead appeal responses
• Lead biodiversity offset problem solving, ToR, appointment and specialist workstreams in conjunction with the relevant project developer
• Maintain and update the standard project descriptions as and when new environmental requirements necessitate changes
• Maintain and ensure the project development library is up to date where new regulations are
• Manage the BIC process as and when required to ensure up to date process descriptions

Environmental Consultant Management

• Review EAP/Specialist RFPs / recommend EAPs
• Review EAP/Specialist proposal evaluations/recommendations –    including proposed specialist team
• Review SOW in Consulting Agreements
• Maintain/update EAP/specialist database - PD to highlight problematic EAPs/specialists/mitigation measures/restrictive buffers to note in database

Support and Mentoring

• Update and manage the signed land database
• Manage the signed land visualization tool
• Manage the prospecting visualisation tool
• Manage the competitor visualisation tool and database

Adhoc Activities

• Assisting with due diligence during project acquisition
• Contribute to the competitor database
• Assist with environmental matters where required for auction programmes

Construction & Operations

• Monitor conditions of EA conditions and the impact on
• Assist with asset level reporting as required

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Environmental Management or similar
• 5- 10 years relevant experience
• Understanding of environmental law and management, terminology and contracts
• Experience and understanding of the EIA process and NEMA
• Knowledge of project development and environmental impacts
• Well-developed report writing and communication skills

• Personal Competencies
  • Communicative Skills 
  • Objective and professional conviction
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Emotional influence and conviction (negotiation, sales, leadership, conflict and crisis management)
• Foreign Language Skills
  • Business fluent in English, another South African official language and German are a plus

What counts for us is your ability and your motivation to advance renewable energies with us - not age, disability, gender, skin color, origin, sexual orientation or religion.