Senior Electrical Engineer

SGS; Roodepoort; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will produce innovative and cost-effective electrical designs tailored to project needs. You will engage with clients and manage project deliverables while ensuring adherence to quality and safety standards. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary engineering environment, utilizing advanced design tools and methodologies. If you are passionate about engineering and looking to make a significant impact in the field, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• B. Sc/B. Eng. or B. Tech (Electrical) graduate, ideally registered with ECSA.
• 5 to 25 years’ experience in EPC/EPCM, preferably mining or petrochemical.

Responsibilities

• Produce cost-effective electrical designs to support project deliverables.
• Manage client relationships and ensure project objectives are met.
• Review and approve cable schedules and generate work specifications.

Skills

Project Management

Electrical distributions & transmission

Electrical network

Cables & Wires

Electrical control systems

Design Criteria

Technical Documentation

Plant Layout development

Construction & Commissioning

Cost Estimation

Basic IT Tools

Procurement

Engineering Calculations

Innovation & Adaptability

Quality Engineering

Quantity Estimation

CAE Software

Legislation and Standards

Education

B. Sc/B. Eng. or B. Tech (Electrical)

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Company Description

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 97,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 2,600 offices and laboratories around the world.

SGS Bateman’s multidiscipline engineering team provides integrated engineering services for processing plants and related operations. Using proven ISO methodologies enhanced by innovative approaches, the team transforms conceptual designs into operational manual processing plants of all sizes and complexities. An extensive suite of enhanced 3-D design tools and modeling software allows our engineering team to visualize all aspects of plant development.

Job Description

To produce cost effective and technically sound Electrical designs within the required time frame to support project deliverables.

Project Life Cycle

• Ensure discipline strategy development during set-up to meet project deliverables
• Offer general project support and problem solving on technical matters arising
• Use knowledge of scope on current and recent projects to promote re-use of engineering where possible
• Review key discipline documentation and drawings produced on projects
• Develop electrical strategy and design criteria to suit the unique project/client requirements
• Produce regular project status reports
• Generate post-project feedback

Design

• Review and Approve Cable schedules that list all cable details and lengths
• Generate scope of work specifications with technical requirements for each package
• Assist in developing, managing and controlling the discipline cost and man-hour estimates
• Produce discipline specific designs according to schedule and budget
• Maintain effective engineering input/output of design office

Client Relationship

• Maintain effective inter-discipline requirements
• Manage and interface with Clients, suppliers and contractors to meet project objectives

Continuous Improvement

• Provide suggestions for improving internal work methods and procedures on an ad-hoc basis.

Quality and Safety

• Regularly review and contribute towards improvement of procedures and systems
• Ensure all QA procedures and guidelines are followed in all daily activities
• Participate in quality assurance audits
• Monitor vendor quality
• Monitor site quality
• Adhere to all quality and safety requirements of the SGS management system.
• Perform any other reasonable tasks as assigned by direct line manager.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Professionally the successful candidate will be a B. Sc/B. Eng. or B. Tech (Electrical) graduate and preferably registered with ECSA as a professional engineer.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Between 5 to 25 years’ experience executing projects in the EPC/EPCM environment; ideally within the mining and minerals (preferred) or petrochemical sector.
• Project Management - Knowledge of basic project management methods and knowledge of all project life cycle phases
• Electrical distributions & transmission - Knowledge of electrical transmission and distribution systems & techniques
• Electrical network - Network Systems & techniques
• Cables & Wires - Products and design techniques
• Electrical control systems - Design, equipment and Systems.
• Design Criteria - Applications and improvements of technical knowledge into design criteria that suit project requirements and/or support the design of new components/equipment
• Technical Documentation - Ability to create, understand and communicate via technical specifications
• Plant Layout development - Ability to lay out the plant in a functional, safe and cost-effective way
• Materials Fundamentals - Knowledge and understanding of basic information regarding materials and their properties used in engineering and manufacturing activities
• Construction & Commissioning - Understanding of on-site construction work and commissioning with associated contractor and supplier interactions
• Cost Estimation - Understand cost of design (including cost of deliverables generation) and ability to estimate costs related to a project or specific activity
• Basic IT Tools - Office Automation and Graphic Software
• Procurement - Understand project cost control, budgeting, procurement, purchase-to-pay and supply chain management
• Engineering Calculations - Knowledge of engineering calculation techniques
• Innovation & Adaptability - The ability to adapt to different environments (team, technologies, countries etc.) from a technical point of view, including ability to find out new possible technological solutions according to customer’s needs.
• Quality Engineering - Knowledge of quality methods, management systems and procedures and/or understanding of quality features of products and parts
• Quantity Estimation - Ability to estimate quantities (volumes, dimensions, masses, weights etc.)
• CAE Software - Familiarity with CAE software including setting up systems, procedures and guidelines e.g. AutoCAD
• Legislation and Standards - Knowledge of sector specific law (e.g. Engineering safety requirements, and knowledge of standard specifications (e.g. Plant layout requirements etc.) including the ability to integrate these standards.