CATHODIC PROTECTION ENGINEER

Job Advert Summary

Rand Water is currently looking for the Cathodic Protection Engineer to provide professional engineering input in the planning, design and implementation of infrastructure necessary to control corrosion of Rand Water’s (RW) large diameter steel bulk water pipeline network by means of Cathodic Protection (CP) systems.

Minimum Requirements

• B Eng Electrical or B Eng Metallurgical Engineering degree

• 3-4 years’ experience in the design of CP infrastructure

• Registered as a Candidate Engineer with ECSA.

• It will be a requirement to achieve NACE accreditation to level 2/3 within 3 years of commencing employment with Rand Water.

• Current NACE CP level 2/3 Qualification would be advantageous

• Coating Inspector Program (CIP) 1 will be an advantage

Primary Duties

• Detailed designs (including calculations, design reports, drawings (integration with civil drawings, pipeline long sections and general arrangements of CP infrastructure), technical specifications, bills of quantities and other tender document inputs) for Cathodic Protection systems.

• Design of Cathodic protection systems including the design of anode ground beds, impressed current systems and sacrificial anodes.

• Analyze CP Survey results as per SANS and NACE standards

• Giving direction to the performance of Cathodic Protection Field Surveys, and analysing Cathodic Protection field Data.

• Continuously improve Rand Water CP procedures and specifications from lessons learnt in the field.

• Liaising with other Pipeline Owners, Eskom and Transnet for Cathodic Protection Interference studies and the generation and specification of joint CP solutions to the benefit of all parties.

• Be part of and contribute to the interface with other engineering design disciplines (civil, pipelines and electrical), consultants, asset engineers/managers, project managers and team, contractors designers and Rand Water operations to accomplish completely integrated Cathodic Protection solutions and designs suitable for implementation.

• Review contractors’ designs and respond formally to such design submissions ensuring that functionality and compliance to Rand Water standards and requirements are achieved.

• Participate and give input in scoping meetings, functional and detailed design reviews, hazard and operability studies and present scopes/designs to Asset Managers/site personnel and project managers.

• Witnessing Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) of installed Cathodic Protection Systems to check compliance to design requirements.

Knowledge

• Cathodic Protection NACE procedures
• Design of integrated CP systems for long, large diameter steel pipelines
• Knowledge of large diameter steel pipelines including material specifications, internal and external pipe coatings, soil types and associated resistivities
• Experience in the inspection of corrosion damaged pipelines and the likely causes for the damage and proposing the best CP solution to the damaged infrastructure
• Experience of the interaction of steel pipelines with impressed current systems on other adjacent pipelines and stray currents from nearby Eskom and Transnet electrical systems
• OHS Act Legislation
• Environmental Legislation
• Electrolytic Code of Conduct
• Project management exposure in large diameter steel pipeline installations
• Systems engineering
• Pipeline Asset management exposure

Skills

• Application of integrated cathodic protection and pipeline design principles in practice
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Relationship building
• Creativity in problem solving and development of pipeline corrosion solutions
• Ability to work under pressure
• Quality in the delivery of design packages
• Tender document preparation and engineering drawings
• Report writing including preliminary and detail design reports
• Team Player
• Proficiency in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of products especially MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and MS Project. The ability to apply recent versions of Autocad software will be an advantage.
• Formal presentation skills to a varied audience.

Attitude

• Initiative
• Capable of working alone
• Decision Making
• Ability to pay attention to details
• Self-Motivated
• Results driven
• Customer service orientation