Wind Yield Consultant - Cape Town at RINA

The role
We are now looking for strong candidates to support our continued growth and expansion in this exciting market. Responsibilities include:

• Delivering wind resource assessment and yield assessments
• Technical due diligence on wind projects for Investors, Lenders, IPPs and Developers
• Providing technical engineering support on PV and wind projects at all stages of the project development cycle
  • meteorological data (masts, SoDAR, LiDAR)
  • Wind resource and energy yield analysis
  • Detailed wind turbine SCADA and operational performance analysis
  • Computational modelling
  • Research and development of new tools and solutions
  • Site inspections
  • Proposal and report writing
  • Quality assurance for wind yield and associated deliverables
  • Project risk management, including construction, operational, and financial risk
  • Reviewing and preparing technical and non-technical reports
  • People and project management, ensuring effective communication within the internal team and stakeholders
  • Contributing to business development activities i.e. development of new solutions, proposal writing and client presentations.

Desirable qualifications & experience

• Experience (<5 years) working in the large scale solar PV or wind sector across at least some of the role Analysis of
• Project and/or people management experience
• Experience with one or more of: WindPRO, Windographer, WindFarmer, WAsP, Openwind, Global Mapper
• A Degree in Engineering / Physics / Maths / Meteorology / Oceanography or related subject would be desirable
• Excellent Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills
• Experience of wind turbine performance analysis and detailed operational assessment
• Familiarity with SoDAR and LiDAR and a track record of analysis would be an advantage
• Programming skills in Python, VBA, Matlab, Fortran, C would be favoured

The person
We are looking for talented and experienced people able to exceed the expectations of our world-class clients. You’ll be a leader able to bring together expert teams and promote an inspiring environment influencing those around you to deliver technical excellence. Your energy and drive will promote collaboration and innovative solutions. As a strong communicator you’ll have highly-developed report writing and presentation skills, practiced negotiation skills and the ability to engage clients with your articulate and credible manner. You’ll thrive on customer engagement and be skilled in understanding their needs and marketing our services to capture business and develop relationships. Your customer focus, technical expertise and results orientated thinking will enable you to achieve your objectives. You’ll ensure project management methodologies and practices are consistently applied across the team. You work well in changing circumstances and as a ‘self-manager’ take satisfaction from delivering against your promises. Must be e ligibility to live and work in South Africa (e.g. South Africa citizen or holder of / eligible for a South African working visa).