Senior Technical Consultant at ABB

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Takes a lead role to propose consulting services and solutions to meet the customer's needs.
• Leads or supports the development of a special technology or area of best practice.
• Actively participates in customer discussions; preparing technical proposals; techno-commercial negotiations; co-creation workshops with customers; technical guidance for the customer etc. Makes contacts at senior level (e.g., Site Manager, Technical Director).
• Negotiates contracts to win consulting assignments of 250 to 1500 hours.
• Develops relationships and actively maintains a technical knowledge exchange with key technical contacts.
• Ensures consistency in documenting knowledge/lessons learned and shares across the unit/team.
• Coaches and develops consultants to deliver assignments and provides technical guidance to colleagues.
• Identifies learning competency gaps in the consulting team and addresses the gap through active (technical) people development.
• Applies standard processes and tools applicable to their own area of responsibility.
• Creates work plans and cost estimates in their own area of responsibility.
• Ensures quality and timely implementation within targeted cost.
• Supports the development of new tools and processes for effectiveness.
• Reports inefficiencies in processes and tools.
• Conducts risk and opportunity assessments for consulting assignments.
• Proposes and initiates actions to mitigate and control risks in one’s area of responsibility.
• Identifies opportunities for repeat and new consulting business. Contract management
• Forms and leads teams to deliver assignments with a focus on operational execution.
• Oversees and delivers consulting assignments.
• Works with contract management activities (invoicing and work in progress, etc.) in their own area of work.
• Approves assignment tasks carried out by others.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor of Technology/Advanced Diploma or Equivalent in Electrical Engineering.
• 8+ years’ experience in the field of Electrical Engineering with extensive Electrical experience in Power Generation, Water industry, Oil & Gas.
• Lead roles in Tendering, Engineering and Execution. Experience in various project development and execution phases including engineering design.
• Works with the customer to shape and deliver solutions and seeks customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements.
• Experience in Motors, Drives, Low/Medium Voltage Switchgear, Protections and Relays and Substations.
• Substation Automation System, IEC 61850 will be advantageous.
• Professional registration with ECSA will be advantageous.
• Report writing, compiling of technical specification, bills of quantities and contract documentation.
• Responsible for preparing detailed functional (CAD) and commercial documents in response to all requests for Tenders, Proposals and Quotations.
• Work with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of the product and the documentation requirements.
• Collaborate closely with departmental leaders and Subject Matter Experts to craft comprehensive technical and commercial documentation.
• Take responsibility for ensuring tenders and submissions are completed in a timely manner meeting submission criteria.
• High level competency with Microsoft (MS) suite of software (MS Office / MS Teams / SharePoint), strong organizational ability and a sharp attention to detail.
• Experience of working as part of, as well as leading, a bid team (proven bid team leadership and involvement).
• Preference will be given to employment equity candidates.