Our client is an independent specialist energy consultancy providing technical, strategic, environmental and consenting advice to organizations operating within the conventional and renewable energy sectors.
Location: Cape Town, Hybrid
Requirements:
- Protection coordination and arc flash studies
- Other power system studies such as grid code compliance or grid impact studies
- Training and mentoring of employees
- Project management (financial and resource management)
- Maintaining relationships with existing clients and identifying and engaging new clients
Duties and responsibilities:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechatronic Engineering (or equivalent)
- Registration or working towards registration with ECSA as a Professional Engineer
- Well-rounded individual with the ability to deliver work individually, or as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to engage with Clients, forming long-term and mutually beneficial relationships
- Good problem-solving and negotiation skills
- Strong teamwork skills with a positive and flexible approach and the ability to build relationships
- Acute attention to detail
- The ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, good organization and careful time management
- Experience collaborating with external stakeholders to drive projects
- Familiar with, and ability to interpret, typical substation primary and secondary/control plant design drawings
- Experience of network modelling and analysis in DIgSILENT, PowerFactory (PSS/E, ETAP or other software packages will also be considered)
- Experience performing all modelling, simulations and calculations required to specify all protection settings (LV to HV) required in a typical renewable power plant (experience performing the same for synchronous generator plants, industrial/mining operations or complex transmission/distribution grids is considered an advantage)
- Experience with arc flash studies
- Knowledge of the South African transmission and distribution systems and South African Grid Code and current industry developments
- Knowledge of relevant RSA legal requirements and applicable Eskom, SANS, IEC, IEEE and Cigre standards and guidelines
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