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Electrical Protection Specialist

3 months ago

Phalaborwa, Limpopo, South Africa Palabora Mining Company (PMC) Full time

The position is responsible for maintaining, developing, and providing a specialised service in respect of medium and low voltage electrical systems, specific protection relay settings, fault calculations and load flow studies.


Key responsibilities will include:

  • Conducting annual reliability audits, tests (secondary and primary injections) on medium voltage equipment, protection, and metering relays.
  • Recommending costeffective upgrades and replacement of protection and metering relays.
  • Planning, controlling, and supporting Contractors towards ensuring task execution.
  • Ensuring all electrical equipment on the network is functional, protected, and reliable.
  • Providing afterhours/ Standby maintenance support.
  • Researching, developing, and improving existing methods, technology, and equipment.
  • Implementing change where required.
  • Investigating and reporting on MV protection trips, quality of electrical supply.
  • Providing quality technical protection related support service to underground electrical equipment.
  • Compiling reports on the status and condition of assets.
  • Completing related administration, SAP notifications and maintenance of database.
  • Maintaining technical specifications, diagrams, operating procedures, training manuals etc.
  • Ordering equipment, reporting needs, and operating within a set of financial parameters.
  • Energy monitoring and management.
  • Ensuring adherence to SHEQ standards and procedures.

Intrinsic Qualities:

  • Good planning and organising skills.
  • Must have good understanding of electrical systems particularly ABB systems.
  • Must be able to do troubleshooting and fault finding.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Must have good problemsolving skills.
  • Must be able to act decisively when action is required.
  • Good Report writing skills.
  • Good Numerical skills.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • National Diploma/S4/N6 or degree in Electrical Engineering.
  • Accredited advanced Protection Courses.
  • Advanced abilities in the use of ETAP.
  • Registered with Engineering Council of South Africa advantageous.
  • Computer literacy (efficient in MS Office & SAP).
  • A minimum of 5 years post qualifying experience in electrical protection within a medium voltage environment.
  • Sound knowledge of testing of Relays, breakers, and transformers.
  • Experience in conducting plant audits.