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Ekurhuleni - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

To produce cost effective and technically sound Electrical designs within the required time frame to support project deliverables.

Project Life Cycle

  • Ensure discipline strategy development during setup 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 reuse 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 postproject 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 manhour estimates
  • Produce discipline specific designs according to schedule and budget
  • Maintain effective engineering input/output of design office

 

Client Relationship

  • Maintain effective interdiscipline 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 adhoc 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 SGS management system.
  • Perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by direct line manager.

Qualifications :

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

  • 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 costeffective way
  • Materials Fundamentals    Knowledge and understanding of basic information regarding materials and their properties used in engineering and manufacturing activities
  • Construction & Commissioning       Understanding of onsite 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 purchasetopay 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 customers 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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