Senior Environmental Advisor

  • Full-time

Company Description

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. 

Job Description

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

Qualifications

  • 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

Additional Information

  • 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.

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