Specialist Engineer

The Specialist Engineer role is an electrical engineering technical function located within the Independent Powe Producer Office (IPPO).

The IPPO was established in 2010 to provide rapid solutions to South Africa's severe electricity supply constraints, by procuring new energy generation capacity from Independent Power Producers (IPPs). The IPPO was created as a project office hosted by the Development Bank of

Southern Africa (DBSA) under a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), National Treasury and the DBSA. The mandate of the IPP Office is to provide specialised services to government, including

• IPP Energy Procurement Management,
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Contract Management, and
• Professional Advisory Services.

The IPPO's skills, expertise and success in mobilising and delivering on time is recognised domestically and globally.

The Specialist Engineer will effectively support and optimise the procurement, connection and grid integration of IPP generation projects by enhancing planning, design and implementation with Eskom, municipalities and all spheres of government to ensure technical dependencies are identified, optimised and standardised.

These will involve different power producing projects that will include Renewable Energy, Battery Energy Storage, Gas to Power, Coal, and Hybrid energy facilities. The role will report to the Head of Technical and will collaborate effectively with all other departments within the IPPO to deliver

timeously on the IPPO's mandates and strategy.