Electrical Commissioning Engineer (Off-site Support) Cape Town

Kge (Sweden) Ab; Cape Town; Presencial; ZAR 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Career development programmes

Excellent package

Descripción de la vacante

Kirby Group Engineering in Cape Town is seeking an Electrical Commissioning Engineer to support projects across Ireland, the UK and Europe. You will define scope, prepare deliverables, maintain project data, and provide timely remote technical assistance from the Cape Town office.

You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure commissioning meets safety, quality and schedule targets, develop testing scripts, review drawings, and support handover with complete documentation; a

Formación

• Recognised qualification in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
• 3+ years of relevant engineering, commissioning, or mission-critical project experience.

Responsabilidades

• Support commissioning leads in planning, coordinating, tracking, and reporting activities.
• Review scopes, drawings, schedules, submittals and contract requirements; prepare deliverables and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain electrical asset lists, tags, interfaces, and drawing packs.
• Prepare commissioning strategies, test sheets, and IST documents; maintain schedules and lookaheads.
• Review SLDs, cables, protection settings, and control philosophies; ensure technical consistency.
• Prepare and review test packs, energisation checks, and retest evidence; ensure traceability.
• Coordinate interface with mechanical plant, BMS/EPMS, and safety controls; address risks.

Conocimientos

Electrical engineering

Project commissioning

Documentation

Remote support

Power systems

Educación

Electrical Engineering degree

Herramientas

Power BI

Descripción del empleo

Permanent position available with a considerable portfolio of works for the next 5+ years

To build your career by assisting in the delivery of 'leading edge' engineering projects.

To work with a vibrant, agile and multi-functional team in delivering projects on time, safely, to budget and to the required quality standards.

To benefit from Kirby's Career Development Programmes that will enhance your leadership capability.

To work with the best.

Excellent package on offer with room for negotiations

About Kirby Group Engineering

Kirby Group Engineering is an international multi-disciplinary engineering services contractor and leading provider of high-value engineering services to a number of 'blue chip' companies. Operating across Ireland, the UK, Europe and South Africa, Kirby has become the engineering service provider of choice in growth segments such as pharmaceuticals, data centres and power transmission and distribution. Our culture is innovative, collaborative and performance focused. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to grow and develop in a company committed to developing talent and rewarding performance.

Role Purpose

The Electrical Commissioning Engineer provides technical, planning, and documentation support from the Cape Town office to project teams across Ireland, the UK and Europe. The role supports a consistent commissioning process from design through handover by defining scope, preparing and controlling deliverables, maintaining accurate project data, and providing timely remote technical assistance.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Support the Commissioning Lead in planning, coordinating, tracking, and reporting electrical testing, turnover, and commissioning activities across assigned projects.
• Review scopes, specifications, drawings, schedules, submittals, and contract requirements. Prepare project familiarisation outputs including deliverables, acceptance criteria, owners, and key dates; to prove system commissionability.
• Develop and maintain electrical asset and system lists, tags, boundaries, interfaces, dependency matrices, and drawing pull packs against the latest approved design information.
• Prepare and control commissioning strategies, implementation plans, check sheets, test scripts, method statements, and IST documents. Maintain Levels 0-5 schedules, lookaheads, and trackers aligned with the programme, and system dependencies.
• Review SLDs, schematics, layouts, cable and panel schedules, protection studies and settings, control philosophies, and cause-and-effect documents; to cover utility supplies, MV/LV switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS and batteries, busway, distribution, cabling, earthing, lightning protection, lighting, metering, and associated controls.
• Prepare and review project test sheets and packs, including panel charts, pre- and post energisation checks, point-to-point tests, busbar inspections, earthing and bonding, torque records, protection values, marked-up drawings, photographs, approvals, and retest evidence. Confirm completeness, traceability, and technical consistency.
• Review vendor FAT/SAT procedures, certificates, test packs, and submissions. Confirm valid calibration, prerequisites, instruments, acceptance criteria, and sign-off evidence.
• Develop or review temporary-power, load-bank, and Levels 4-5 power-cascade plans. Support energisation, switching, outage, isolation, and LOTO documentation.
• Administer commissioning and common data platforms, including asset records, document and script uploads, system transfers, revision control, and company records. Support L1-L3 readiness and tagging for CFCI/OFCI assets, programme activity identifiers, walkdown status, drawing packs, checklists, invitations, and lookaheads using verified site information.
• Maintain trackers, dashboards, action registers, snag lists, and non-conformance logs. Follow up actions, verify close-out evidence, and prepare accurate daily/weekly reports, spreadsheets, Power BI updates, and presentations.
• Provide structured remote technical support, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. Coordinate interfaces with mechanical plant, BMS, EPMS, fire alarm, life-safety, and controls, and escalade significant safety, quality, programme, or technical risks.
• Support handover by checking turnover packs, certificates, as-built records, O&M manuals, training records, signoffs, and actions. Participate in coordination meetings and required visits, FATs, SATs, witness tests, or IST; improve templates, lessons learned, procedures, and digital workflows; and comply with company policies on data security.

Requirements

• Recognised qualification in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, Building Services Engineering, or a related discipline, with typically 3+ years of relevant engineering, commissioning, or mission-critical project experience. Practical knowledge of electrical distribution and commissioning documentation, with the ability to int