Principal Specialist Electrical Engineering at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• The Principal Specialist Electrical Engineering is responsible for leading the Electrical engineering team and producing the required deliverables during the front-end loading phase of Hydrogen & other “Green Energy” projects. The incumbent is also responsible for assurance definition and implementation as well as achievement of performance goals of direct and indirect reports.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Accountable for all Electrical Engineering deliverables during front end loading.
• Provide input concerning best practices and lessons learnt.
• Generate value add from the implementation of lessons learnt.
• Support Project Management with regards to Engineering track in gate readiness and project quality reviews.
• Provide input into project execution strategies, including contracting and selection of suppliers.
• Define and implement Electrical Engineering quality assurance standards to uphold the highest local and international standards.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews to guide engineers and ensure compliance to set standards.
• Review deviations from Electrical standards for approval, when necessary.
• Review overall project quality goals for Electrical Engineering on projects and monitor quality progress of deliverables.
• Embed quality assurance systems for vendor selection, technology selection, technical specification reviews, technical bid analyses, client design reviews, punching and End of Job documentation.
• Participate in stage gate reviews.
• Measure and report on Electrical Engineering performance on projects.
• Ensure that third party QC Inspection processes are in place and followed.
• Compile and manage incident reporting on projects, following the conduct of RCA and implementation of corrective plans.
• Provide Electrical Engineering expert input into the content of the apprenticeship model.
• Act as an expert consultant on Electrical Engineering topics group wide.
• Assist in the selection of external service providers by measuring technical competence.
• Examine and leverage practical Electrical Engineering specific assets in and around Sasol, for the rest of Sasol.
• Develop ability to measure and report on Electrical Engineering performance on projects.
• Provide expert knowledge in projects' engineering quality management plans and provide expert inputs into- and guidance to capital projects.
• Set competence criteria for Electrical Engineers at different levels.
• Coach, mentor and guide engineers.
• Establish and track team metrics and goals to achieve quality outcomes.
• Manage collaboration with cross-functional project teams to ensure project success.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degre

Min Experience

• 13+ relevant years

Certification & Professional Membership

• None

Competencies:

• Compliance: Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.
• Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Critical Reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Influencing: Influencing is an ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence
• Total Quality Management: The strategy for continuously improving the quality of process output, based on five fundamental principles of Customer Focus, Continuous Improvement, Measurement, Total Involvement and Systematic Support.