ELECTRICAL DESIGN ENGINEER

Job Advert Summary

Rand Water is currently looking for the Electrical Design Engineer in the Design Office to assist in the management of the Electrical Design Team and output within the design team, including the execution of the electrical engineering design function and co-ordination, integration and approval of design output relating all future requirements to meet Rand Water’s objectives.

Minimum Requirements

• Completed B Sc (Eng)/ B Eng degree in Electrical Power Engineering.
• Professional registration as a Professional Engineer with ECSA is mandatory.
• Proficiency in E-TAP will be an added advantage.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD will be an added advantage.
• 4-6years’ relevant design experience comprising of designing of electrical equipment aligned to SANS and IEC standards, producing cable schedules, specifications of equipment and Bills of Quantities. The ability to generate effective, practical and quality design packages to engineering problems.
• 4-6 years’ relevant post qualification experience in industrial electrical plant comprising of various electrical MV and LV equipment such as switchgears, motors, VSD and soft starters, transformers, Generators, UPS systems, cable installations, MV and LV reticulation systems, and control systems interfacing to multidisciplinary engineering systems.
• Experience in the integration of components into a functional electrical and instrumentation system.
• 4-6 years’ relevant experience in the installation and hand on site commissioning and testing of integrated industrial electrical plant including MV and LV reticulation, LV and MV - switchgear, -motor, -VSD and s-oft starters and -cabling and instrumentation.
• Experience in Factory Acceptance Testing of electrical equipment.

Primary Duties

• Perform a full range of varied and responsible Electrical Engineering designs for MV and LV reticulation focusing on MV and LV switchgears, Motors, Variable Speed Drives including transformers, Generators, UPS systems, cable installations, control and protection systems interface to multi-disciplinary engineering systems requiring judgment and evaluation, selection, application of standards and electrical engineering theory and adaptation of standard techniques where required.
• Functional and detailed electrical designs (calculations and drawings - single line diagrams, schematic diagrams and general arrangements), technical specifications, Bills of Quantities and other tender document inputs.
• Integration of a proposed engineering solution into an operating plant.
• Be part of and contribute to the interface with other engineering design disciplines (Mechanical, Civil, Pipelines, Process, Architectural and Automation), consultants, Asset Engineers/Managers, Project Managers and Contractors’ Designers to accomplish completely integrated Electrical designs suitable for implementation.
• Review contractors’ designs in various types of contracts 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 various stakeholders.
• Witnessing Factory Acceptance Tests of manufactured electrical equipment to check compliance with design requirements.

Knowledge

• Wide technical knowledge of industrial electrical engineering equipment
• Design of electrical infrastructure
• Knowledge of the OHS Act, the Electrical Installation Regulations, the Construction Regulations and contractual safety requirements
• Local and International Standards
• On Site Commissioning
• Testing of electrical equipment

Skills

• Application of integrated electrical engineering principles in practice
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Relationship building
• Creativity in problem solving and development of engineering solutions
• Ability to work under pressure
• Quality in the delivery of design packages

Attitude

• Conceptual thinking
• Ability to pay attention to detail
• Quality orientated
• Deadline and results orientated
• Customer focused
• Self-motivated
• Proactive