Who is eligible to sit BEE's energy manager and energy auditor exams?
A graduate engineer with three years of energy-related work qualifies for both exams, as does a post-graduate engineer, or an engineer with a management post-graduate degree, with two years. Diploma engineers with six years and physics, electronics or chemistry post-graduates with three years qualify only for the manager exam.
Energy manager exam
- Graduate engineer (BE or BTech) with three years of work involving energy use.
- Post-graduate engineer (ME or MTech) with two years.
- Graduate engineer with a management post-graduate degree, two years.
- Diploma engineer with six years.
- Post-graduate in physics, electronics or chemistry, with physics and maths at graduation, three years.
Energy auditor exam
- Graduate engineer with three years.
- Post-graduate engineer with two years.
- Graduate engineer with a management post-graduate degree, two years.
Experience rules
Experience must involve energy use in operation, maintenance or planning and be complete by the application closing date. BEE registers candidates only on receipt of an experience certificate.
Keeping the certificate
BEE has required certified managers and auditors to attend a refresher course to retain certification; check the refresher course site for the current deadline.
What Senseible does here
Senseible gives an energy manager monthly energy and fuel data from invoices, organised by site and source, which saves time on the reporting side of the job.
Sources: BEE, eligibility criteria for certified energy managers and auditors, BEE, energy auditors and energy managers page
Last reviewed 2026-10-23.