Job Summary
As a Snr Electrical Engineer, you will be required to offer your expertise within the electrical engineering aspect on a number of turnkey projects throughout the African Continent.
You will be involved at the conceptual stage of projects to allow for accurate budgeting and project planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical consulting services to our customers.
- Produce and integrate engineering solutions/designs for asset creation on behalf of customers at various stages of the project life cycle.
- Interface with project managers and other engineering fields on the design and implementation of the project.
- Conduct technical evaluations, supporting planning, design, and construction.
- Perform project administration including preparing reports, gathering information, drafting proposals, drafting correspondence, and completing progress reports.
- Design and implement the pumping system of the water abstraction plant including the piping to the water treatment plant.
- Design and implement the pumping system of the water treatment plant and assist in the construction of the water treatment systems (e.g., sedimentation tanks, flocculators).
- Design and implement the chemical dosing pumping systems.
- Design and implement the pumping system from the water treatment plant to the booster station.
- Follow safe work practices and use company guidelines and policies for planning and executing work in a safe manner that ensures personal safety, as well as the safety of fellow employees.
- Advise, design, and implement all the required mechanical structures of the water treatment plant.
Qualifications And Experience / Minimum Requirements
- B.Sc. or BEng in Electrical Engineering.
- PrEng (ECSA Registered as a professional Engineer).
- Experience in managing a team of junior engineers.
- Minimum 15 years in engineering design, management, and construction.
- Minimum 10 years' experience in performing electrical/mechanical design.
- Extensive experience in design and construction of steel water pipeline, pump stations, reservoirs, abstraction works, and water treatment plants.
- Legal knowledge of Employee Equity Act, Labour and Employment laws, OHS Act, Design compliance standards.
- Proficiency in the use of MS Office, MS Project, and various Electrical and water design software.
- Driver's Licence is essential.
Quality Management
Ensure that there is ISO compliance. Regular inter-provincial and international site visits and meetings.
Competencies And Skills
- Can take decisions and demonstrate accountability and integrity.
- Can negotiate, influence, and persuade stakeholders in projects to achieve positive solutions to any challenges which may arise.
- Can troubleshoot and strategize to meet the long-term vision of the company.
- The ability to see details at close range.
- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern.
- Deductive reasoning - the ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Oral and written comprehension and expression.
- Leadership and Management.
- Effective Communication.
- Complex Problem Solving.
- Project Management.
- Financial Management.
- Expert in relevant design software.
- Pay attention to details.
- Analytical Reasoning.
- Scientific acumen.
- Logical thinking.
If you are not contacted as a short-listed candidate within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as being unsuccessful. Candidates are invited to submit a CV together with copies of certificates/driver's licence (no original certificates).
Applications that are received without copies of required documentation will not be considered.
Closing Date: 16th SEPTEMBER
Advert Reference No: SZKC-HCIVIL
Completed applications can be e-mailed to the recruitment email address below by the indicated closing date.
To: Zambezi and Khato Civils are equal opportunities employers.
We are determined that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, age, race, or disability.