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Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Cape Town

A large consulting company with offices across South Africa and internationally are looking to hire a Senior Electrical Engineer to join their Cape Town offices.

This position is responsible for providing professional services on projects within the Division, leading and executing Municipal electrical work (Electrification & Reticulation), Distribution Substations (Primary- and Secondary Plant) and Renewable Energy Projects (Wind and Solar) designs within the group.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Engineering degree/higher degree in Electrical Engineering from accredited university

• Relevant Professional Registration – Pr Eng / Pr Tech

• 10 Year experience post-graduation in Electrical Distribution Projects

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Substation (11kV - 132kV) design and Project Management

• Experience in design management and design delivery for projects and managing professional teams of medium/large Electrical projects

• Knowledge in Electrification, Reticulation, Distribution Substations and Renewable Energy would be beneficial

• Knowledge power System Studies would be beneficial

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead all technical designs and relevant project inputs

• Responsible for the project management of medium/large projects

• Responsible for the management and coordination of multi-disciplinary project teams

• Take responsibility for budgets, resourcing and outsourcing of project work within the section, as well as agree project budgets with other sections on large projects comprising multi-disciplinary project teams

• Author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality

• Present / represent their technical work

• Draft successful responses to bids

• Clear knowledge of work procedures and ability to brief project team on them

• Assign work to others

• Regular client contact under direction of more senior manager

• Successful in identifying and following through on leads associated with additional work prospects on the projects they are involved with

• Discuss in detail with clients the business technologies and markets

• Train others in respective functional field and build a team

• Market technical capability

• Supervise Engineers or Technicians in undertaking checks and inspections of constructed works for compliance with design and specifications, including monitoring and proposing remedial actions

• Development and/or bb of function group specific design procedures

• Plan and coordinate investigations and surveys

Should you meet the above requirements, please send a detailed CV to engineering.jobs@mspstaffing.co.za or call Roxanne/Hannah/Stella on 021 555 0432.

or email us: engineering.jobs(at)staffingprojects.co.za