Renewable Energy Career Opportunity. Electrical Engineer

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1 Renewable Energy Career Opportunity for an Electrical Engineer INTERNATIONAL

2 INTERNATIONAL The Pace Group of Companies from Johannesburg, South Africa, has an exciting career opportunity for an Electrical Engineer in the exciting field of Renewable Energy. This position requires an individual who has the necessary qualifications and a passion to make a difference in the world. The Pace Group of Companies has offices and a Green footprint in South Africa, Africa, Mauritius, Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and will be expanding into Thailand and Vietnam in As a dynamic and goal driven company the Pace Group is a motivated team, with a wealth of team experience in the Hospitality Industry. Our primary focus is to the hospitality industry with an impressive client base including Four Seasons, Hilton, Starwood Group, Intercontinental, LUX Resorts, Sun International, Kerzner International, Hyatt, to name a few. The position requires a dedicated individual, willing to relocate to South Africa and will involve a further 50% of their time, traveling to our various offshore operations. The package is negotiable to the right applicant and will be determined upon track record and the career commitment, to the Pace Group. The successful candidate can look forward to being mentored and supported to adapt to the exciting and unique conditions of our environment. The successful candidate can look forward to a lengthy and prosperous career within this dynamic Group. The Pace Footprint Sri Lanka China Seychelles Mauritius Maldives South Africa

3 Electrical Engineer for Renewable Energy Division Candidate must be a graduate from an accredited 4-year college with a minimum of a Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, with a strong background in computer science and a minimum 5 years' experience in the energy engineering field. Candidate must have strong written and oral communication skills and experience working with project managers, construction managers, building operators and customers. Candidate must have advanced knowledge of MS Excel, MS Access and MS Project, including the ability to generate database tables, reports and queries using large amounts of raw data. Candidate must have hands-on experience in building energy efficiency systems in the areas of building envelope, heating ventilation and air conditioning systems, lighting, lighting controls, building automation, refrigeration, heat rejection, heat recovery, heat generation, electricity generation and renewable energy applications. Candidate must have some experience in energy modeling, either with canned software programs or custom designed software applicable to all types of buildings in general and to the hospitality industry in particular, and must be able to correlate metered or utility-generated raw data to end-use consumption and demand by category and load through hourly simulations that include 30-year weather bin data and that take into account general engineering best practices and building code requirements. Candidate must have a good working knowledge of utility grid systems, their generation, transmission and distribution design and utility tariff rate analysis; and fossil fuel systems and their application to space and domestic hot water heating. In addition to the above, extra credit goes to the candidate who can write codes for sequences that use complex algorithms in a custom designed platform and dashboard and who is willing to travel and relocate for several weeks at a time at distant project sites.

4 Candidate must be fluent in and have extensive knowledge in the following energy engineering terms: Air Handling Unit (AHU) Air Balancing Adjustable speed drive (ASD) AEE - Association of Energy Engineers ASHRAE Automatic sequencer Ballast Ballast factor BAS Bin method Blowdown Boiler horsepower Brake horsepower (bhp) British thermal unit (Btu) CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) CFL, all types Coefficient of Performance (COP) Cogeneration (COGEN) Color Rendering Index (CRI) COMMODITY, Electrical Commissioning, Energy Commissioning, Retro-Commissioning Condenser Compressor Daylight compensation DDC DEMAND-SIDE ENERGY MANAGEMENT Demand-Side Management (DSM) Economizer Controls Electricity Terms: I = AMPs, E = Voltage, KW = Kilowatts (real power), PF = Power Factor Energy Conservation Measure (ECM) Enthalpy EMS Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) Energy Services Company (ESCO) Footcandles Geothermal Heat Pump Infiltration'Indoor Air Quality Water Hardness Halogen Lamps Heat recovery ventilator High Intensity Discharge (HID) Lamp Systems Horsepower (HP) HVAC systems IESNA - Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. Incremental Cost of Electricity Purchase Interruptible service Kilowatt (kw) Kilowatt-hour (kwh) Load factor

5 LED Low-E coating (for windows) Lumen Lumens Per Watt Luminaire Marginal Rate MCF Measurement and Verification ( M&V ) NEC - National Electrical Code Occupancy Sensor Outside Air Power Factor (PF) R-Value Reactive Power Real-Time Pricing (RTP) Rooftop Units, Split Systems & Airside Heat Pumps SEER Shared-Savings Agreement SUPPLY-SIDE ENERGY MANAGEMENT T5, T8 & T12 Lamps Therm Time-Of-Use (TOU) rate Total Harmonic Distortion Ton of Refrigeration U-Factor (or U-value) Variable Speed Drive (VSD) VAV System (Variable Air Volume)

6 Contact Us CV to include the following *Personal Details * Qualifications * Employment History * Check list to the qualifications requested above * Personal and Career Achievements * Personal and Career Goals * References * Contact Details *Recent Photograph CV s are to be forwarded to tony.pace@paceafrique.com and pk@moondancemgmt.com Deadline for submission is the 30th November All submissions will be treated with the strictest of confidence. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Your application is considered as part of the presentation and creativity is encouraged.

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