ELECTRICIAN - GAUTENG
E2E Staffing
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Electrical installation assessments (e.g. DB assessments).
- Quality assurance of electrical installations.
- Install data logging equipment to determine plant power consumption.
- Work from ladders, scaffolds, and roofs.
- Advise Management on whether continued operation of equipment could be hazardous.
- Update or create internal SLDs for properties and solar projects.
- Perform business related duties such as maintaining records and files, preparing reports, and assisting with ordering of supplies and equipment.
- Comply with standards and procedures of the industry and abide by the Safety Rules, adhering to strict health and safety guidelines.
- Determine critical vs non-critical load splits.
- Resource planning.
- Resource training.
- Maintenance schedule, including PV Modules Maintenance, Inspection of PV Array Structure, Inspect Inverters & Corrective Maintenance.
- Plant Monitoring, respond to all alarms triggered on solar plant.
- Resolve all trips on the solar plant as soon as possible.
- Diagnose and replace PV panels if required.
- Attend to all breakdowns, do fault finding/root cause analysis and resolve, fix or replace faulty equipment with minimal energy loss.
- Infrared Red scans of panels, AJBs, GJBs, transformers and inverters.
- Maintain solar/diesel Hybrid system, including batteries.
- Perform cost estimates and prepare proposals.
- Track actual project costs against budgeted costs and proactively address potential problems.
- Develop project schedules and execute according to plan.
- Compete risk assessments.
- Prepare monthly reports.
- Ensure compliance with relevant Acts and minimize business risk.
- Minimum N3 with Electrical
- Red Seal qualification preferred.
- Minimum 5 years utility experience
- Minimum 3 years working knowledge of PV plants
- Assessments of buildings and drawing up of SLDs
- Experience with switching LV, MV and HV systems
- Lock-out, Tag-out procedure
- Working knowledge of power system protection.
- Able to interpret single line diagrams and schematics.
- Able to analyse data, investigate and report on trends.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Organization and time management
- Friendly, helpful and service-orientate
- Demonstrate commitment to high ethical standards within a diverse workplace
- ability to work under extreme pressure to tight deadlines
- Problem solving and critical thinking
- Decision-making
- Accuracy and attention to detail