Electrical Engineer I - Sasolburg at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• To research, design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems that conform to organisational and/or regulatory standards and specifications in order to meet business needs.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Apply detailed knowledge in defined fields of electrical engineering. 
• Formulate and execute the electrical engineering scope for small multidisciplinary projects. 
• Ensure and maintain awareness of best practices. 
• Utilise electrical engineering systems, tools and standards in all projects. 
• Assist to create, develop and update electrical engineering systems, tools and standards with guidance from more experienced engineers. 
• Develop and govern technology procedures and standards relevant to the Sasol environment in collaboration with international best practices and standards. 
• Contribute to project technical development strategies and execution as well as contracting and selection of suppliers. 
• Develop and manage project execution planning with respect to electrical engineering. 
• Provide efficient and high quality services to the service requestor to match agreed requirements. 
• Deliver electrical engineering equipment support to ensure that the technical ability of the business meets operating results. 
• Ensure quality assurance and quality control of delivered services by means of ETQP and Hold/review plans. 
• Have deviation controls in place. 
• Track reliability deviations in order to establish failure trends and rectify pro-actively. 
• Ensure project success through adherence to cost, schedule and quality targets for project scope. 
• Act on time to changes/technical queries. 
• Develop and review technical deliverables. 
• Develop technical design packages for projects (front end loading, concept, basic and detail engineering). 
• Review, comment, guide and govern the design process and deliverables from ECs, OEMs and other engineers. 
• Support and give technology guidance to business units and equipment owners. 
• React to technology challenges and failures/incidents as required (first line support). 
• Conduct incident investigations and route cause analysis. 
• Support plant functions with technology related concerns and provide recommendations. 
• Audit current systems and technologies and do gap analysis with alignment planning. 
• Develop, track and govern maintenance strategies for new and legacy systems. 
• Audit maintenance procedures and installations. 
• Conduct power system analysis studies e.g. load flow studies, fault level studies and motor starting studies. 
• Conduct protection co-ordination studies, and calculate unit protection settings for various electrical equipment. 
• Ensure quality assurance on technology and execution of new installations and maintenance projects. 
• Implement QA/QC of technology and equipment installation, as well as all relevant strategies leading to the point of execution and project closeout. 
• Develop technical and engineering skills of EITs through coaching. 
• Ensure compliance with legal, safety and operational reliability requirements. 
• Have a PM plan and PDP in place. 
• Drive own development and performance management discussions. 
• Participate in interpersonal skills required for productive working relationships and to work with, or through, others inside and/or outside (including suppliers) the organisation to get work accomplished. 
• Show influence, negotiation, maturity and emotional intelligence. 
• Operate successfully in a diverse work environment (culture, roles, positions and levels).

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree

Min Experience

Experience: 6+ relevant years

Behavioural (BC) |Technical (TC) |Leadership (LC)

• BC_Optimizes Work Processes
• BC_Manages Complexity
• BC_Plans and Aligns
• TC_Engineering design
• TC_Equipment Utilisation
• BC_Decision Quality
• TC_Electrical Fundamentals
• TC_Electrical Systems
• BC_Ensures Accountability
• TC_Engineering Implementation