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Power System Protection Engineering Consultant

Posted 02 September 2024
Salary Competitive Salary (DOE)
LocationCity of Cape Town
Job type Permanent
Discipline Renewable Energy
ReferenceCM-PSPE-02SEPT24

Job description

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