Project Engineer - Protection

You as a Project Engineer – Protection will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Designing engineering of Substation control and protection systems leading up to site commissioning to ensure projects are executed in accordance with Hitachi Energy procedures, contract specifications and schedule commitments, quality standards, health, safety & environment requirements.

How you’ll make an impact

• Developing together with the project core team the protection and control concepts for transmission and distribution substations in line with customer specification.
• Developing protection and control IEDs configuration in line with customer specification and approved detailed designs.
• Developing testing procedures to perform factory acceptance testing in conjunction with the customer to prove functionality of the designs.
• Specification and sizing of control cabling with cable schedule design. Provide support to the commissioning team during installation and commissioning stages of the project.
• Working closely with and provide progress information to Project Managers to ensuring timely delivery of all project milestones. Timely report to Project managers any current and potential issues that may affect the program or cost.
• Management of quality of total engineering efforts on projects.
• Ensuring lessons learned from all execution are analyzed and conclusions are incorporated as continuous improvement actions.
• Good verbal and written communication skills are essential, proven ability to handle customer comments and approval responses to support project manager in project engineering is a must.
• Providing sales and tendering support.
• Attending site clarification meetings and perform site visits.
• Must be eligible to travel internationally.
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.

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