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Energy Management Officer

General Information

Country
South Africa
Team
Energy and Commodity Management
Seniority
Specialist (2-4 years of experience)
Job Type
Permanent
Hire Type
Full-Time
Work Regimen
Hybrid
Posting Date
02-Dec-2025
Expiration Date
06-Dec-2025
Company
Enel Green Power South Af

Description and Requirements

What you will do:

  • Analyses market trends and movements for commodities and power. Assures Energy Management activities for the Country and supports analysis on new business development opportunities with particular reference to commercial risk and eventual market exposure, in relation with Business Development and Regulatory Dpts. and others.
  • Relates with the TSO (Eskom) for all the themes related to grid code and despatching of EGP SA’s plants.
  • Assures the management of all the PPAs contract for each of EGP SA’s plant in operation, providing daily production forecast to Eskom and manages the relation with Eskom for all the commercial issues.
  • Analyses and monitors eventual commodity risk of the managed portfolio.
  • Collects measurements of energy produced and consumed on the competent grid.
  • Assures energy budget and on a monthly basis assures payment and invoicing for purchased and sold energy, determining
  • incomes, costs and energy margin, also for accounting closing purposes, managing the relation with the Single Buyer offices (Eskom).
  • Assures periodical reporting. Maintains structured and periodical relations with central Energy Management units for best practice sharing activities and business share.
  • Manages all activities related to development of projects for obtaining CERs titles, or CO2 allowances, or titles to valorize on the voluntary market.
  • Supports Regulatory Dpt. for analyzing the impact of new regulation.
  • Supports central EGP Energy Management Dpt. for the analysis on new business opportunities in the African Continent.
Who you are:

  • Good knowledge of math, statistics, quantitative methods of analysis.
  • Strong knowledge of basic software such as MS Office (Word, Excel, Access and Power Point). WB programming or advanced use of Excel (i.e. macro) is a plus.
  • Knowledge of technical software is a plus (data provider as Bloomberg or Reuters, software for analysis as @Risk, statistical software as R).
  • Working in team and availability to short term abroad permanence
  • Problem solving
  • Language: English (written and spoken) fluent.
  • Manage of multiple tasks
  • Work in a matrix context
  • Negotiations skills and aptitude to verbal communication with availability to interpersonal relationship
What we search for in you:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical-scientific disciplines.
  • Excellent knowledge of national and international contracts in the energy sector, with specific focus on PPA contracts used under the REIPPP programme.
  • Detailed knowledge of REIPPP programme in South Africa
  • Characteristics and composition of power prices, experience on power pools and on system marginal price pricing methods.
  • Technical knowledge of power plants is preferable, in particular knowledge of renewable plants (wind and solar).
  • Experience on plants dispatching, grid management, metering systems.
  • A minimum of 5 years of work experience is required at least in linked sectors.

What we offer: 

You can apply until: 06 December 2025

Who we are: Competitive Salary, Meal Allowance, Performance based bonus, future study assistance and Permanent employment based in Sandton, Johannesburg

Enel Green Power is part of Enel’s Group, and manages all the generation from renewable sources in Enel’s world countries. Our pillars are sustainability and innovation. We want to build a new way of living energy, creating sustainable development and making clean energy accessible to all. A world leader in clean energy, with a total capacity of more than 54 GW and a generation mix that includes wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric power, as well as energy storage facilities, Enel Green Power is at the forefront of integrating innovative technologies into renewable energy plants.

Innovation, Trust, Proactivity and Responsibility are the core values of our Organization. We are always looking for different perspectives, ideas and points of view. Each person is important to us, independently from their gender, age, nationality, ability or any other form of diversity or specificity. We are a people focused Company and we work to empower all our colleagues through development programs and lifelong learning.

We promote work flexibility recognizing the importance of well-being and work-life balance.
Find out more information on our website: www.enelgreenpower.com