Electrical Commissioning Lead — Protection & Testing

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Midvaal Local Municipality; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

HITACHI ENERGY SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD is seeking a commissioning lead to drive project commissioning activities in South Africa. The role involves coordinating installation teams, implementing design changes, and ensuring safety and quality compliance.

You will explain protection and control philosophies, read schematics, operate test equipment, and mentor junior engineers while maintaining project schedules and client expectations.

Qualifications

• Explain basic protection, control and measurement principles.
• Read and follow scheme drawings to test circuits and evaluate performance.
• Perform fault finding on circuits tested with equipment.
• Read and explain PCM600 configuration of protection IEDs and adjust logic as needed.
• Mentor junior engineers and ensure safe site practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of commissioning activities for projects.
• Coordinate installation activities with the Site Manager and installers.
• Implement commissioning design changes and provide as-built markups.
• Assist in engineering proposals, BOMs and man-hour estimates.
• Create work plans and cost estimates for assigned scope.
• Conduct risk and opportunity assessments; update management on risks and mitigations.
• Coordinate customer acceptance activities and certificates.
• Manage external suppliers for commissioning equipment and services.
• Share lessons learned to improve processes and safety across projects.
• Provide knowledge transfer and supervise junior engineers and technicians.

Skills

Protection & control

Measurement principles

Scheme drawings

Test equipment software

PCM600 software

Mentoring

Hand tools

Tools

PCM600 software

Test equipment software

Job description

HITACHI ENERGY SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD is seeking a commissioning lead to drive project commissioning activities in South Africa. The role involves coordinating installation teams, implementing design changes, and ensuring safety and quality compliance.

You will explain protection and control philosophies, read schematics, operate test equipment, and mentor junior engineers while maintaining project schedules and client expectations.