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Officer Environmental Management

Eskom
Kriel
Full-timeMarket RelatedEnvironmental and Nature ConservationCloses 26 Oct 2026 · 5 days left

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About the role

Position: Officer Environmental Management: Position/Task Grade: T12: Area of specialization: To execute environmental management activities within the designated area of the business: Department: Environmental Business Unit: Matla Power Station: Location: Matla Power Station, Kriel, Mpumalanga: Closing Date:26 /10/2026

Responsibilities

  • Skills and Competencies Required
  • Behavioural
  • Strong drive to learn
  • Integrity
  • Safety consciousness
  • Honesty
  • Trustworthiness
  • Leadership
  • Entrepreneurial mind-set
  • Self-starter
  • Deliver on expectations
  • Results and delivery focused
  • Work as part of a team
  • Knowledge
  • Link technical and legal aspects related to environmental compliance issues
  • Environmental management systems (ISO 14001)
  • Environmental impact assessments
  • Approval processes for statutory environmental approvals applicable to the designated business area e.g. environmental authorisation, waste management, water usage, atmospheric emission licences, tree cutting permits
  • Environmental risk and due diligence assessments
  • Environmental law
  • Environmental auditing
  • Environmental incident investigations
  • Eskom business policies, procedures and directives
  • Design and test solutions to problems and formulate plans
  • Environmental national, provincial, local by-law statutory/legislative requirements
  • Skill
  • Strong communication
  • Diversity management
  • Apply analytical and logical thinking
  • Gather and analyse information
  • Attention to detail
  • Conflict resolution and negotiation
  • Should demonstrate in practice the ability to interact with and mobilise stakeholders
  • Presentation
  • Multi-disciplinary problem solving
  • Write effective and professional reports
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Provide support in executing the implementation of the International Organisation of Standardisation (ISO 14001) environmental management system and related procedures in the designated business areas
  • Ensure compliance with legislative governance requirements in the designated business areas
  • Execute the process to obtain environmental approvals for environmental authorisation, waste, water usage, atmospheric emission licenses and tree cutting permits
  • Implement and monitor environmental management plans
  • Perform environmental investigations

Requirements

  • Minimum Requirements
  • Qualification(s)
  • B Degree/Advanced Diploma in Natural Science/Environmental Management at NQF7 with 360 credits.
  • Related Minimum Experience
  • 2 years’ and/or completed Graduate in Training (GIT) programme in Environmental Management.
Ref: eskom_officer-environmental-management