Power Systems Engineer

About the position

An exciting opportunity to join a respected international consulting company's growing Cape Town team.

They are looking for a mid-to-senior Electrical Engineer with expertise in power system studies to contribute to a variety of technical, strategic, and regulatory consultancy projects.
Requirements:

• BSc / BEng. / BTech in Electrical or Mechatronic Engineering
• 4 - 10 or more years experience
• Familiar with, and able to interpret, typical substation primary and secondary / control plant design drawings. 
• Experience in network modelling and analysis in DIgSILENT PowerFactory (PSS/E, ETAP or similar). 
• Experience performing grid code compliance studies, grid impact studies and / or network planning studies. 
• Knowledge of the South African transmission and distribution systems and grid code.
• Experience in performing insulation coordination, earthing, protection coordination or arc flash studies (advantageous)
• Postgraduate degree (advantageous)
• Experience as owner's engineer on energy or other infrastructure projects (advantageous)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Grid impact and grid code compliance studies for power generation projects
• Power quality assessments/ investigations
• Transmission and distribution network planning
• Project management (financial and resource management)
• Maintaining relationships with existing clients and identifying and engaging new clients

Desired Skills:

• power systems
• grid impact studies
• transmission
• distribution
• network planning