Senior Electrical Engineer
- Gauteng
- Contract
- Full-time
- 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
- 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
- Maintain effective inter-discipline requirements
- Manage and interface with Clients, suppliers and contractors to meet project objectives
- Provide suggestions for improving internal work methods and procedures on an ad-hoc basis.
- 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 SGS management system.
- Perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by direct line manager.
- 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.
- Between 5 to 25 years' experience executing projects in the EPC/EPCM environment; ideally within the mining and minerals (preferred) or petrochemical sector.
- Project Management - Knowledge of basic project management methods and knowledge of all project life cycle phases
- Electrical distributions & transmission - Knowledge of electrical transmission and distribution systems & techniques
- Electrical network - Network Systems & techniques
- Cables & 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 & 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 & 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.