Manager Renewable Energy Project Development & Investments (m/f/d)

Wepa Hygieneprodukte GmbH

Job Description

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application!


  • Project Development: You manage renewable energy projects (PV & Wind), including full lifecycle responsibilities from origination, feasibility analysis, and development to construction and commissioning.
  • Stakeholder Management: You negotiate contracts with landowners, collaborate with municipalities, external partners, and authorities, and act as a key contact point throughout the project.
  • Economic, Technical and Regulatory Feasibility: You conduct financial and technical feasibility analyses, develop CAPEX/OPEX models, forecast ROI, and perform risk assessments to mitigate potential challenges (e.g., delays, technical risks, market fluctuations). You support and oversee environmental and building permit applications (e.g., BImSchG procedures) and guide projects through regulatory processes.
  • External Coordination and Site Oversight: You oversee and assess external reports, manage suppliers, consultants, and contractors, and conduct on-site visits to project locations to ensure adherence to quality, timeline, and budget requirements.
  • Internal Collaboration and Reporting: You collaborate with internal teams during implementation phases to align project milestones with strategic priorities. Also, you document project progress and provide regular updates to stakeholders, including detailed risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

  • Qualification: You have a relevant university degree, e.g. in industrial engineering, renewable energies, or economics with focus in finance or strategy.
  • Experience and Know-How: You enjoy the complexity of looking across sectors, understanding market sizes, market opportunities, and market timing while simultaneously making fast decisions in relevant topics. Additionally, you have a broad understanding of the renewable energy space. You thrive in fast moving environments and you are able to adapt quickly. You have a good understanding of technical requirements and a first understanding of regulatory boundaries and frameworks.
  • Personality: You are a strong networker and relationship builder with excellent communication skills. You are an analytical and conceptual strategic thinker with execution mindset. Additionally, you are a fast learner with entrepreneurial driven and strong business sense to seek opportunities.
  • Working Style: You thrive in both independent and team-oriented work settings. You have an entrepreneurial spirit, sense of initiative and a strong problem-solving approach. You are project management oriented and capable of not losing the big picture view. You are able to balance an inner drive to deeply understand something with speed.
  • Languages: Fluent English is essential and very good German (C2) skills are necessary to flourish in the role.

  • Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
  • Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
  • Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
  • WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
  • Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
  • Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

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