Senior Power Systems Consultant
Assegai Recruitment (Pty) Ltd
- R Undisclosed
- Permanent Senior position
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Gauteng
- Posted 25 Mar 2026 by Assegai Recruitment (Pty) Ltd
- Expires in 28 days
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Job 2636075 - Ref DUR000394
About the position
A dynamic consulting engineering company in Pretoria is looking for a Senior Power Systems Consultant to join their team and to provide consulting services to the Energy Sector in South Africa and Africa.
Requirements:
- BSc. / BEng. or BTech in Electrical/Mechatronic Engineering (or equivalent)
- Familiar with, and ability to interpret, typical substation primary and secondary/control plant design drawings
- Experience of network modelling and analysis in DIgSILENT PowerFactory (PSS/E, ETAP or other software packages will also be considered)
- Experience performing grid code compliance studies, grid impacts studies and/or network planning studies.
- Knowledge of the South African transmission and distribution systems and South African Grid Code and current industry developments
Desirable requirements:
- Postgraduate degree (Masters or higher) in engineering and registration (or working towards registration) with ECSA as a Professional Engineer
- Experience performing insulation co-ordination, earthing, protection co-ordination or arc flash studies
- Data analysis skills in either Excel, Python or similar
- Scripting skills for automation of repetitive analytical work
- Experience as owner’s engineer on energy or other infrastructure projects
Duties include:
- 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:
- Network modeling
- Grid code compliance
- Transmission
- Distribution
Assegai Recruitment (Pty) Ltd
About the agency
Assegai Recruitment’s purpose is to find and place talented, motivated and dedicated people wanting to make their next career move.
We are specialists in the professional search and selection of engineering, supply chain and construction industry candidates for permanent and contract placements.
Our aim is to create a successful alignment between a company’s human resourcing needs and a career-seekers aspirations and so building long lasting relationships between employer and employees.
We provide advice and assistance in all areas of the recruitment process and aim to help all parties on their mutual path of growth and development.
Based in Durban, we service clients across South Africa.
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