Officer-Forest Protection

Energy Development Corporation; Leyte; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Development Corporation is seeking a Forest Protection Officer to provide regulatory and community liaison support for forestry and social permits, coordinating with DENR, LGUs, NGOs and local communities.

You will help implement compliance planting programs, maintain data and reports, and assist in ensuring project permits and social agreements support safe, lawful and socially responsible operations.

Responsibilities

• Strategic planning with regulators and partners to secure forestry and social permits.
• Monitor and improve the permitting process and planting compliance.
• Prepare reports on permits, survival rates, and compliance data.
• Ensure timely acquisition of permits and address social impacts.
• Manage CAPEX/OPEX details for project permitting needs.

Job description

Job Overview

Unleash your energy within! Be a part of the EDC Team! The Forest Protection Officer provides technical expertise in dealing with regulatory agencies (i.e. Department of Environment and Natural Resources), local government units, non-government organizations and community organizations to establish institutional arrangements and partnerships to maintain harmonious relations in facilitating the acquisition of forestry and social permits.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning and Implementation – Provides technical expertise in dealing with regulatory agencies, local government units, NGOs and community organizations to establish institutional arrangements and partnerships for the acquisition of forestry and social permits. Implements compliance planting as part of the Tree Cutting Compliance requirements to avoid Notice of Violation and negative social impacts, while enhancing positive impacts and programs. Conducts Information, Education and Communication to communities and other stakeholders in support of the permitting process. Executes stakeholder management strategies to ensure effective implementation of local needs programs and unhampered operations of the Company.
• Monitoring and Evaluation – Gathers and processes monitoring and evaluation data and proposes recommendations to continuously improve the permitting process and compliance planting obligations.
• Data Management – Prepares reports on the permitting process for internal learning and knowledge data, and compliance planting records in terms of survival rate, protection status and other plantation data for reportorial requirements. Facilitates encoding and updating of DOP/Growth Projects’ Forestry and Social Permits and Compliences to CRD Information Systems.
• Regulatory Compliance – Ensures timely acquisition of forestry and social permits and compliance with agreed conditions to maintain business continuity. Creates enabling conditions to facilitate acquisition of endorsements or permits to ensure legal compliance and address social impacts of the project.
• Management of Resources – Prepares details of capital and operating expenditure (CAPEX/OPEX) proposals for DOP/Growth Projects related permitting and compliance requirements.

About the Company

Energy Development Corporation is a geothermal energy industry pioneer and the recognized world leader in wet steam field technology. In the Philippines, EDC is the largest vertically integrated geothermal company, delivering 1,475MW of clean and renewable energy. EDC continues to diversify its renewable energy portfolio through investments in hydropower, solar power and wind energy projects in the Philippines. With almost 40years of geothermal mastery, EDC is set to deliver the benefits of sustainable geothermal development to communities around the world as it ventures into Latin America and Indonesia.

EDC is part of the First Gen Corporation (First Gen) Group, which has the largest portfolio of power plants using clean and renewable technology in the Philippines. First Gen’s 16 power generation plants have a combined capacity of 2,763MW. First Gen has one of the cleanest power portfolios in the country with its entire power generation portfolio utilizing fuels such as geothermal steam, water, and natural gas. Wind power complements EDC’s existing power generation assets including the baseload geothermal plants, as well as the Pantabangan hydropower plant, which serves as a peaking plant.

EDC has become the leading geothermal energy producer in the Philippines through the successful development and operation of numerous geothermal energy projects. Since 1983, the Company has successfully developed, financed, built, and operated seven geothermal steamfields in five geothermal contract areas, containing both wet and dry steam. These steamfields currently supply geothermal steam to geothermal power plants with an aggregate installed capacity of 1,130MW. In addition, the Company currently, directly and indirectly, owns and operates eleven geothermal power plants with a total installed capacity of 1,181MW.

Through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary Green Core Geothermal, Inc., the Company operates the 192.5MW Palinpinon and 112.5MW Tongonan geothermal power plants. Bacman Geothermal, Inc., another indirect wholly owned subsidiary of EDC, operates the 130MW Bacman geothermal power plant.

The Company believes this track record has enabled it to develop the expertise needed to assess the feasibility of future acquisitions and greenfield projects, ensure the safe and efficient construction of power plants, and provide for efficient power plant operations. The geothermal team has over 40years of technical and management experience in the geothermal industry. They also have a core team of geoscientists and engineers, who hold degrees from Geothermal Institutes in Iceland, Italy, New Zealand and Japan.

Our Core Values: Pioneering Entrepreneurial Spirit, Business Excellence, Unity, Nationalism, Social Justice, Integrity, Employee Welfare, and Wellness. We know from generations of experience that it is by living according to these values that a company can be built to last.