Professional Officer
City of Cape Town · Cape Town, Western Cape
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Start free — we apply for you →Requirements
- Relevant Tertiary Qualification preferably B.Eng / B.Sc.Eng / BTech in Electrical Engineering
- Registered as a candidate Pr Eng or as candidate PR Eng Tech with ECSA
- 3 – 5 years post qualification relevant electrical protection experience
- Experience in power system modelling techniques and relay setting calculations
- Valid Code B or EB driver's license
- Communication Skills
- A high degree of computer literacy
- Special conditions may include:
- The incumbent must be physically fit.
- The incumbent cannot be colour blind.
- Required to work in all weather conditions.
- Required to work outside normal working hours during emergencies and overtime.
- May be required to perform standby duties during emergency situations.
Key Performance Areas
- Maintains a quality management system to monitor and verify the configuration of protection, automation and control schemes.
- Investigates the performance of protection, automation and control systems and conducts investigations into all medium and high voltage system events.
- Conducts the calculation and implementation of operational relay settings and ensures accurate power system fault level calculations for all high and medium voltage primary plant and equipment.
- Conducts simulation studies of embedded generation and determines their impact on fault levels within CCT's medium and high voltage networks.
- Configures the protection, automation and control functions in relays and ensures the final design application meets the protection design philosophies for high and medium voltage primary networks.
CLOSING DATE 28.08.2026