Senior Electrical Engineer

Primeserv

  • Johannesburg, Gauteng
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 15 days ago
Primary Responsibilities:
To produce cost effective and technically sound Electrical designs within the required time frame to support project deliverables.Specific Responsibilities:Project Life Cycle
  • Ensure discipline strategy development during set-up to meet project deliverables.
  • Offer general project support and problem solving on technical matters arising.
  • Use knowledge of scope on current and recent projects to promote re-use of engineering where possible.
  • Review key discipline documentation and drawings produced on projects.
  • Develop electrical strategy and design criteria to suit the unique project/client requirements.
  • Produce regular project status reports.
  • Generate post-project feedback.
Design
  • Review and approve cable schedules that list all cable details and lengths.
  • Generate scope of work specifications with technical requirements for each package.
  • Assist in developing, managing and controlling the discipline cost and man-hour estimates.
  • Produce discipline specific designs according to schedule and budget.
  • Maintain effective engineering input/output of design office.
  • Client relationship.
  • Maintain effective inter-discipline requirements.
  • Manage and interface with Clients, suppliers and contractors to meet project objectives.
Continuous Improvement
  • Provide suggestions for improving internal work methods and procedures on an ad-hoc basis.
  • Quality and safety.
  • Regularly review and contribute towards improvement of procedures and systems.
  • Ensure all QA procedures and guidelines are followed in all daily activities.
  • Participate in quality assurance audits.
  • Monitor vendor quality.
  • Monitor site quality.
  • Adhere to all quality and safety requirements of the Client’s management system.
  • Perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by direct line manager.
Qualifications:
  • Professionally, the successful candidate will be a B.Sc / B.Eng or B.Tech (Electrical) graduate and preferably registered with ECSA as a professional engineer.
Skills and Experience:
  • A proven track record of 8 to 10 years plus experience in engineering design and project management, within a processing or petrochemical plant projects environment, is required for this position.
Required Skills / Knowledge:
  • Project management - knowledge of basic project management methods and knowledge of all project life cycle phases.
  • Electrical distributions and transmission - knowledge of electrical transmission and distribution systems and techniques.
  • Electrical network - network systems and techniques.
  • Cables and wires - products and design techniques.
  • Electrical control systems - design, equipment and systems.
  • Design criteria - applications and improvements of technical knowledge into design criteria that suit project reqs and/or support the design of new components/equipment.
  • Technical documentation - ability to create, understand and communicate via technical specifications.
  • Plant layout development - ability to lay out the plant in a functional, safe and cost-effective way.
  • Materials fundamentals - knowledge and understanding of basic information regarding materials and their properties used in engineering and manufacturing activities.
  • Construction and commissioning - understanding of on-site construction work and commissioning with associated contractor and supplier interactions.
  • Cost estimation - understand cost of design (including cost of deliverables generation) and ability to estimate costs related to a project or specific activity.
  • Basic IT Tools - office automation and graphic software.
  • Procurement - understand project cost control, budgeting, procurement, purchase-to-pay and supply chain management.
  • Engineering calculations - knowledge of engineering calculation techniques.
  • Innovation and adaptability - the ability to adapt to different environments (team, technologies, countries etc.) from a technical point of view, including ability to find out new possible technological solutions according to customer’s needs.
  • Quality engineering - knowledge of quality methods, management systems and procedures and/or understanding of quality features of products and parts.
  • Quantity estimation - ability to estimate quantities (volumes, dimensions, masses, weights etc.)
  • CAE software - familiarity with CAE software including setting up systems, procedures and guidelines e.g. AutoCAD.
  • Legislation and standards - knowledge of sector specific law (e.g. engineering safety reqs and knowledge of standard specifications (e.g. plant layout requirements etc.) including the ability to integrate these standards.

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