Senior Power Systems Consultant

About the position

A dynamic consulting company at the forefront of providing expert technical advice to electricity network companies, renewable energy developers, regulators and funding institutions all over the world is looking for a Senior Power Systems Engineer to join their team in Pretoria) or Beville (Western Cape).

You will have the opportunity to work within an exciting and growing sector on a diverse range of technical, strategic and regulatory consultancy projects.
Duties and responsibilities will 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

Essential requirements include:

• A Bachelor’s degree 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 (master’s 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

Desired Skills:

• power systems
• network modeling
• digsilent
• grid code compliance