Head of Engineering

24 hours ago


Pretoria, South Africa SET Recruitment Consultants Full time

**Head of Engineering**

**Market-related Salary**

**Pretoria**

**Purpose**

Looking for Head of Engineering that will be responsible for all the technical aspects associated with the development of Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural (C&I&A) solar projects in South Africa, from the solar project’s initial qualification up to their transfer to the operation team at COD stage, including the construction implementation and handover to O&M (support if required).

**Responsibilities**
- Qualification of solar project solutions.
- Production studies and forecast (solar resource analysis; helioscope reports).
- Definition of the basic engineering layout and its optimization with regards to CAPEX/OPEX costs and EYA (pitch / tilt angle optimization, module technology, SDP, etc.)
- Strong understanding and experience in using solar design programs (Homer, PVSyst, Helioscope etc)
- Overall project planning.
- Electrical studies: sizing and design of the solar arrays, SLD’s.
- Choices of equipment (structures, inverters, modules, SCADA system).
- Connection studies, Grid impact studies and leading the municipal SSEG process.
- Environmental, structural, and geotechnical studies: consultation with engineering firms, budget optimisation, preparation of the purchase and service orders, results analysis.
- Basic costing of proposed solutions, liaising with the major equipment suppliers as well as collaboration with the Alumo’s centralized procurement department.
- Initial pricing and subsequent updates of all the Capex and Opex budgets of the project.
- Presentation of technical alternatives of solutions to the client.
- Active collaboration in the establishment of the financial modelling.
- Lead participation with Alumo’s Procurement, execution, and implementation department and O&M.
- Follow-up during construction stage.

**Requirements**:

- BEng Electrical engineering or similar.
- PrEng registered (mandatory)
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in the C&I solar space



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