Electrical Engineer at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

Risk Management: Role is responsible to attend to electrical audits & COC audits across South Africa (either in person for high risk events, or through OMF maintenance officers who will provide onsite information for remote auditing) Responsible to develop/implement business continuity plans in respect to electrical supply and installations.

Energy Leadership: Responsible to design and implement retail and commercial Energy Sufficiency Policy, design principals and strategy. Responsible to ensure the business is kept up to date with any new green/carbon taxes and policies are put in place to deal with these. Responsible to design standard retail and commercial electrical installation guidelines/specifications that will be issued as part of standard construction packs.

Cost Savings: Responsible to identify, track and implement cost savings initiatives. Including but not limited to Landlord billing audits and Retail Branch Energy reduction behavioural campaigns

Vendor Management: Vendor management in respect to technical and day to day items

• Evaluates/Develop electrical systems, products, components, and behavioural policies by designing and conducting research programs; applying knowledge of electricity and materials to achieve set energy efficiency targets, cost efficient electrical installations and business continuity policies/plans
• Establishing construction, manufacturing or installation standards/specifications for retail and commercial projects
• Attend to Virtual and physical onsite electrical audits & COC audits across South Africa to ensure construction installations and construction vendor issued COC’s are complaint to relevant regulations.
• Prepares energy usage reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends on energy consumption and hardware installations
• Evaluate/Develop/Implement processes and policies to attend to tariff comparison and analysis across the retail and commercial portfolio
• Assume responsibility for Vendor SLA outputs and manage services against contracted scope
• Ensure strong internal and external client relationship is developed and maintained
• Some weekend work required in case of emergencies as and when required
• Traveling required
• Interact professionally with cross-functional team members
• Estimating material, labour, or construction costs for budget preparation

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering (BEng): Electrical Engineering (Required)

Closing Date

• 13 August 2022