Commissioning Lead - Electrical Systems

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Midvaal Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. in South Africa seeks an experienced commissioning lead to manage low to medium complexity projects, ensuring timely, cost-efficient completion in line with contract specs, quality standards, and safety requirements.

You will contribute technically by planning, coordinating installations, implementing design changes, and supporting process improvements. Travel, mentoring, and collaboration with contractors will be part of the role as you drive customer acceptance and safety

Qualifications

• Be able to explain basic protection, control and measurement principles and discuss these philosophies and their application on feeders, transformers, busbars, capacitor banks, and generators.
• Be able to read and follow scheme drawings with the intend to be able to test and evaluate the functionality, accuracy, and performance of a circuit as well as to be able to perform fault finding on this circuit.
• Have good computer skills to be able to use applications for creating reports on tested and evaluated circuits.
• Be well skilled at operating software used by Hitachi for the test equipment available to the Service team.
• Be well skilled in Hitachi’s PCM600 software to be able to read and explain the configured logic used in various protection and control IEDs. Be able to perform fault finding on the logic and suggest modification to improve or correct unwanted operations.
• Be able to explain the protection and control philosophies of each scheme to new learners and provide mentoring in the operational and safety procedures required for each task.
• Must be able to use hand tools such as multimeter, screwdrivers, wire cutters, wire strippers, crimpers, pliers, wrenches etc.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to planning and implementation of commissioning activities. Supports and coordinates the installation activities with the Installation Supervisor / Site Manager. Implements commissioning design changes and provides mark-ups for as-built project documentation. Supports continuous improvement of project process/product/system design. Participates in internal project review meetings and provides inputs on commissioning activities.
• Assists in creating proposals for engineering projects or programs (provision of bills of materials and estimated engineering hours, etc.)
• Supports Contract Managers in issuing claims (new scope of wo
• Creates work plans and cost estimates for work in one’s area of responsibility.
• Conducts risk and opportunity assessments during commissioning phase to ensure implementation of commissioning plan, identifies and reports potential risks related to contract/quality/program/cost and recommends resolutions to management. Initiates and monitors risk mitigation plan in one’s area of responsibility and ensures stakeholders are updated on associated technical risks. Conducts Safety Observation tour regularly to report and mitigate potential HSE hazards.
• Coordinates site activities focused on finalizing customer acceptance Certification. Identifies and recommends new effective solutions to meet business and customer needs. Provides relevant information pertaining to commissioning assignments and meetings with customer.
• Manages external organizations to ensure availability of commissioning equipment, systems or services.
• Provides relevant information pertaining to commissioning assignments and meetings with contractors/colleagues. Gives feedback to the organization to apply lessons learned process.
• Uses standard processes to ensure all commissioning activities comply with required safety regulations and contractual requirements. Applies and improves processes and tools in one’s technical area to ensure effective project delivery.
• Guides Associate Commissioning Engineers and coordinates work with entry level engineers, technicians, or administrative staff. May manage small project teams.

Skills

Protection & control knowledge

Fault finding & testing

Mentoring junior engineers

Technical communication

Reading schematics

English fluency

Tools

PCM600 software

Electrical test equipment

Job description

Hitachi Energy Ltd. in South Africa seeks an experienced commissioning lead to manage low to medium complexity projects, ensuring timely, cost-efficient completion in line with contract specs, quality standards, and safety requirements.

You will contribute technically by planning, coordinating installations, implementing design changes, and supporting process improvements. Travel, mentoring, and collaboration with contractors will be part of the role as you drive customer acceptance and safety