Senior Engineer Prof Engineering Support
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
Skills and Competencies Required
Behavioural:
• Integrity
• Honesty
• Trustworthiness
• Professionalism
• Meticulous
• Strong drive to learn
• Safety consciousness
Leadership:
• Entrepreneurial mind set
• Build effective relationships and delivery on expectations
• Coaching and mentoring
• Motivating teams
• Coordinating team dynamics
• Results and delivery focused
• Work as part of a team
Knowledge:
• Conduct root cause analysis training (RCAT)
• Engineering processes
• Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS)/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Project management
• Discipline specific technology, standards
• Proficient in database systems, operating systems and Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS)/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) application software e.g. Linux, Oracle, Windows, Structured Query Language (SQL), etc.
• Communication protocols relevant to operation technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems e.g. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP), Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)101, IEC61850, Inter Control Centre Protocol (ICCP), Eskom Standard for Telecommunication (ESTEL), ESTEL Variant (EV) etc.
• Telecommunication networks e.g. Bandwidth Management Equipment (BME), Area Radio Analogue/Digital, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Satellite, Multi-Service Access Platform (MSAP)
• Telecontrol technologies e.g. Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), Fault Path Indicators (FPI), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Simulator SimSCADA, Intelligent Electronic Device (IED)
• Computer networks e.g. Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN), Firewalls, Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Proficient advanced Distribution Management System (DMS) tools e.g., load flow, training simulator, etc.
• ADMS integration into business systems e.g. Geographical Data Capturer (GDC), Electrical Network Schematic (ENS), Outage Management System (OMS), Integration Bus
• Operating Regulations for High Voltage Systems (ORHVS)
• Cyber security e.g. Active Directory (AD), AntiVirus (AV), Patch Management (PM), Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Firewall (FW)
• Management of Technology principles (MOT)
• Risk analysis principles
• Project management principles
• Sound knowledge and understanding electrical plant systems, network design and operation
• Business processes management
Skills:
• Problem solving
• Strategic thinking
• Analytical
• Financial management
• Presentation
• Leadership
• Decision-making
• Negotiation
• Fault finding
• Customer relations
• Communication verbal and written
• Conflict resolution
• Valid driver’s licence
Key Responsibilities
1. Provide planned and unplanned O&M engineering support.
2. Provide a technical consulting and investigation service.
3. Develop discipline-specific philosophies, technical standards, procedures, work practices and specifications.
4. Develop discipline-specific vision, strategy and direction setting.
5. Provide input into and conduct research.
6. Represent Eskom in national and international technical forums.
7. Manage and conduct product, equipment, material, service and change impact evaluations.
8. Provide professional discipline specific technical leadership.
Minimum requirements
Qualification(s):
BSc/B Eng Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering at NQF8 with 480 credits
Experience:
4 years experience in Engineering Maintenance
Professional Registration Body:
Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as a professional engineer
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