The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) is recruiting a Senior Electrical Engineer to its facility in Cape Town, Western Cape. The successful candidate will collaborate with the Functional Manager – “Electrical and Programme/Project Managers” to ensure the successful design and delivery of the SKA infrastructure projects and other instruments within schedule, budget and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Assume professional responsibility for providing proven specialist/ technical expertise and leading a diverse team and resources, including external suppliers/stakeholders, to achieve relevant objectives;
- Provide evidence of experience working on and/or leading multi-million rand projects where the consequence of failure/poor performance is high;
- Interpret and, in some cases, provide guidance related to user-level requirements to develop system-level requirements;
- Lead a team of engineers to develop solution(s) to fulfil requirements at subsystem and system levels and take professional responsibility for these solutions;
- Innovate and perform parallel trade studies towards providing optimal solutions -including compliance with relevant statutory laws and regulations;
- Assume accountability for meeting all requirements associated with the electrical power system to enable overall organisational (or system level) objectives are achieved;
- Make technical and operational decisions independently of higher-level authority based on sound knowledge of organisational processes, directives and guidelines and applicable laws;
- Mentor team members and transfer specific technical knowledge, directives and guidelines and applicable laws; and
- Mentor team members and transfer specific technical knowledge.
Key Requirements
Qualification
- B.Tech plus 13+ years of relevant experience OR
- B.Eng plus 9+ years of relevant experience OR
- M.Eng plus 7+ years of relevant experience OR
- PhD plus 5+ years of relevant experience AND
- MUST be professionally registered with ECSA as either Pr Eng or Pr Tech Eng.
Experience
- Preferably come from a consulting engineering background;
- Previous experience on multi-disciplinary projects;
- Held position of responsibility and accountability for designs/project delivery; and
- Experienced with complete project lifecycle from inception to close-out
Knowledge
Project Management
- Monitoring and reporting of technical progress and cost against project schedules, risk identification, planning, management and reporting analysis and development, implementation and control of risk mitigation strategies where applicable;
- Facilitation of effective communication and workflow both internally and externally;
- Monitoring and management of project appointed consulting engineers or specialists;
- Change control;
- Input to work package status reporting; and
- Ensuring that costs are contained, and options are chosen which reduce costs without degrading performance.
Additional Notes
Personal Qualities
- Leadership;
- Mentor;
- Highly organised;
- Good communicator – verbal and written;
- Pragmatic;
- Self-driven and goal orientated;
- Able to work under pressure;
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously; and
- Attention to detail
How to Apply
Applicants should submit a comprehensive CV by logging in here before 27 April 2022. Furthermore, applicants should include a letter of motivation indicating their suitability for the position in their applications. In addition, the applicants must provide the names and contact details of at least three referees.
South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) offers a challenging career and competitive remuneration package commensurate with qualifications and experience. Also, the NRF is committed to employment equity and redress, and appointments to the position will be made in line with the NRF Employment Equity Plan. In addition, the NRF reserves the right not to make an appointment and will send correspondence to short-listed candidates only.
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