This role is responsible for designing, installation, testing, commissioning and maintaining various protection and control equipment such as protection schemes, monitoring devices, alarm schemes and instruments to ensure the efficiency and reliability of the power network.

The position will report to the Senior Engineer – Protection.

Responsibilities or duties

• Carry out the design, installation and commissioning of protection and control schemes in order to optimise the operation of the power system configuration.
• Provide specifications for capital projects.
• Adjudicate tenders, witness factory acceptance tests and supervise installation and commissioning and site acceptance testing of turnkey and CEC initiated projects.
• Plan and implement efficient and effective system equipment maintenance programmes.
• Facilitate rapid fault investigations and quick restoration of services to sustain operations.
• Carry out engineering studies to ensure correct operation and grading of protective devices on the power system to prevent adverse damage to primary plant equipment and other installations as well as prevent loss of life.
• Calculate protection settings for protection relays.
• Carry out modifications and alterations to protection system installations in order to adapt them to new technologies and operating requirements.
• Ensure that all drawings associated with such modifications are updated.
• Investigate system failures and institute corrective and preventive measures to avoid recurrence of similar incidents.
• Ensure that all company resources under the section are used solely for company purposes to avoid misuse of assets.
• Provide in-house training to departmental staff to ensure appreciation and competence in the use of test equipment and application of modern technology devices on the power system.
• Control labour and operating budget expenditure by ensuring that limits for the section, individual employees and self are adhered to.
• Adhere to company HSES policy and ensure compliance to all domestic and statutory regulations for personal safety and prevention of damage to company equipment and assets.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• Member of EIZ
• Understanding of power systems
• Understanding engineering drawings
• Computing skills, oral/written communication skills
• Appreciation of IEC61850 protocol and engineering

Experience needed

• Three years relevant experience

• Carry out the design, installation and commissioning of protection and control schemes in order to optimise the operation of the power system configuration.
• Provide specifications for capital projects.
• Adjudicate tenders, witness factory acceptance tests and supervise installation and commissioning and site acceptance testing of turnkey and CEC initiated projects.
• Plan and implement efficient and effective system equipment maintenance programmes.
• Facilitate rapid fault investigations and quick restoration of services to sustain operations.
• Carry out engineering studies to ensure correct operation and grading of protective devices on the power system to prevent adverse damage to primary plant equipment and other installations as well as prevent loss of life.
• Calculate protection settings for protection relays.
• Carry out modifications and alterations to protection system installations in order to adapt them to new technologies and operating requirements.
• Ensure that all drawings associated with such modifications are updated.
• Investigate system failures and institute corrective and preventive measures to avoid recurrence of similar incidents.
• Ensure that all company resources under the section are used solely for company purposes to avoid misuse of assets.
• Provide in-house training to departmental staff to ensure appreciation and competence in the use of test equipment and application of modern technology devices on the power system.
• Control labour and operating budget expenditure by ensuring that limits for the section, individual employees and self are adhered to.
• Adhere to company HSES policy and ensure compliance to all domestic and statutory regulations for personal safety and prevention of damage to company equipment and assets.

• Understanding of power systems
• Understanding engineering drawings
• Computing skills
• Oral/written communication skills
• Appreciation of IEC61850 protocol and engineering

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• Member of EIZ