Skills and Competencies Required

Behavioural:

• Strong drive to learn

• Integrity

• Safety consciousness

• Professionalism

 Leadership:

• Entrepreneurial mind-set

• Build effective relationships and delivery on expectations

• Coaching and mentoring

• Results and delivery focused

• Work as part of a team

 Knowledge:

·       Power system fundamentals

·       Load flow & constraint analysis

·       Contingency & reliability concepts

·       Voltage/reactive power planning

·       Stability concepts (as applicable)

·       Planning workflow & deliverables

·       Economic & commercial evaluation

·       Quotation & customer-facing requirements

·       Optimization concepts (for PyPSA/PLEXOS)

·       Data governance principles

·       Tool ecosystem awareness

·       IT constraints & operational realities

Skills:

·       Python software engineering

·       Automation of PSS®E

·       Automation of DIgSILENT / VSAT workflows

·       PLEXOS integration (economic studies)

·       PyPSA modeling solution workflows

·       Data engineering

·       Data validation and quality assurance

·       Results processing & analytics

·       Reporting & documentation automation

·       Workflow orchestration and dashboard

·       Versioning & reproducibility

·       Basic database & integration

·       Stakeholder translation

·       Collaboration & delivery

Key Responsibilities

1. Provide management and leadership.

2. Establish governance requirements.

3. Develop, Establish and maintain technical tool capability within Grid planning and development.

4. Perform stakeholder management.

5. Perform general functional management.

Qualification(s):

B Degree/B Tech Diploma in electrical / Engineering / Information Technology / Computer Science at NQF7 with 360 credits

Experience:

7 years of experience in power system and system tools, information and development platforms in python, psse, Digsilent, VSAT. PYPSA, Plexos and large data analysis and process engineering, management, technical and technology leadership experience.

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