Senior Professional Officer at City of Cape Town

Requirements

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification preferably in Engineering (B.Eng. / B.Sc. (Eng) / B Tech in Electrical Engineering)
• Registered Pr Eng or registered Pr Eng Tech with ECSA
• Valid Code B or EB driver’s licence
• A minimum of 5 – 8 years post qualification relevant electrical protection experience
• Experience in power system modelling techniques and relay setting calculations
• Communication experience
• A high degree of computer literacy

Key Performance Areas

• Develops, implements and 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
• Provide software support to the Protection Performance Audit and Settings section
• Provide mentorship and training programs to learner technicians, technicians, assistant professional officers and professional officers

CLOSING DATE 19.09.2025