Senior Electrical Designer - Petrochemical - Gauteng
Kwena Human Capital
- Undisclosed
- Permanent Senior EE position
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Rivonia
- Posted 20 May 2026 by Kwena Human Capital
- Expires in 34 days
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Job 2639303
About the position
Our client, a leader in the petrochemical industry is looking to appoint an Senior Electrical Designer to join their team based in Gauteng.
REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications:
- National Diploma in Electrical Engineering
- Trade Test qualification in Electrical Engineering.
Additional Training Requirements:
- Proficiency with MS Office suite.
- Proficiency with discipline software programs.
Years of Experience:
- National Diploma: Should have a minimum of 10 years' relevant design experience in a contracting environment focused on projects in the petro-chemical / chemical industry.
- Experience will be evaluated on the number of projects executed and completed and not just on years of experience. The position and responsibilities of the individual for each project will be evaluated
Duties & Responsibilities
- Preform the technical function aligned with the qualifications and experience of a senior designer within your discipline on projects and proposals.
- At a senior designer level, the individual must be competent and experienced in solving problems of low to medium level complexity. This individual should be competent to work independently on project tasks such as layouts, schedules and simple calculations / deliverables and should be able to work semi-independently on complex engineering design problems and deliverables. A senior designer should be fully competent in the field engineering aspects (activities and deliverables) associated with their discipline, including E3D model development associated with their discipline scope.
- Experience in basic and detail engineering deliverables and activities.
- Develop and check discipline specific project deliverables.
- Perform discipline specific project activities related to the scope of a project and guide junior staff in these activities.
- Knowledgeable in project standards, engineering and technical specifications.
- Execution of deliverables / activities in accordance with quality requirements and applicable legislation, codes and standards and industry best practices.
- Ensure compliance with the 4-eye checking and approval process.
- Report on project progress to the lead engineer / discipline manager, project engineering manager and project manager.
- Provide input to the discipline manager / HoD engineering for capacity planning.
- Contribute innovative ideas for enhancing design procedures.
- Assist in developing training material (manuals and presentations) and actively support skills and knowledge transfer.
- Assist a senior engineer / discipline manager with tasks that support the proposal efforts.
- Provide technical specifications for electrical equipment.
- Identify and quantify technical risks.
- Start building a network with the global Uhde engineering team.
- Embrace teamwork sharing and technical knowledge sharing and support with other Uhde execution offices.
- Mentor junior staff in the discipline and across the engineering department
- Assist in developing systems and software to increase departmental efficiency and accuracy to obtain consistency across projects.
- Communication with the Engineering department team members (within and outside of your specific discipline)
- Implement and grow the company`s values specifically diversity, compliance and inclusiveness.
Desired Skills:
- Semior Electrical Designer
- Electrical Design
- Petrochemical
- Projects
Desired Work Experience:
Kwena Human Capital
About the agency
INTRODUCTION
From our inception, we have grown steadily to become successful and highly respected suppliers of contract, temp and permanent personnel. Servicing a wide range of national blue chip clients drawn from every sector of industry and commerce.
WHAT WE DO
Operate in specialized verticals
Craft business solutions
Provide contract and permanent recruitment solutions
HOW DO WE DO IT?
In touch with international trends
Extension of our clients
Quick Turn-around times
Close relationships with government authorities
Dynamic database
MISSION
Our Corporate Mission Statement characterizes the culture of our organization:
"To provide our customers with a tailored, continuing service which exceeds expectations and is based upon partnership relationships being recognized as unique by customers."
"To create a corporate culture which empowers the individual, values individual contribution, celebrates the team, encourages personal development, and creates career opportunities for all personnel."
SERVICE PHILOSOPHY
Honest and ethical advice to clients and candidates alike
A commitment to exceeding client service expectations
A commitment to specialisation resulting in a higher level of expertise in Consulting staff
Constant attention to detail
Prompt response to a request for assistance
A fee structure which is both competitive and success based
A commitment to the internal training of consulting staff to ensure continuous development and therefore a higher level of service to our clients and candidates
Highly skilled consultants with vast industry knowledge and business skill
Dedicated account manager to ensure relationship building and understanding of our clients culture, service expectation, procedures and environment
RAPID RESPONSE
Our success is founded on our ability to cultivate and develop long lasting partnerships with our clients. Through such partnerships, we build a sound affinity and understanding of their needs, allowing us to provide them with quality, cost effective solutions – helping them reach their vision timeously and cost effectively.
INTERNATIONAL CAPACITY
An increasing number of our clients are looking overseas for new sources of skilled and experienced candidates. Kwena Human Capital has extensive experience in overseas recruitment. We recruit staff on a temporary, contract and permanent basis and manage the key processes in each case.
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