Junior Commissioning Engineer

About the role

HITACHI ENERGY SOUTH AFRICA is looking for a Junior Commissioning Engineer in Modderfontein, Gauteng. The engineer acts as commissioning lead on projects of low to medium complexity, ensuring all commissioning activities are completed efficiently and cost-effectively in line with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements. The role is full time and on site.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in planning and implementing commissioning, coordinate installation activities with the Installation Supervisor / Site Manager, implement commissioning design changes and mark up as-built documentation.
• Assist in preparing engineering proposals (bills of materials, estimated engineering hours).
• Support Contract Managers with claims on new scope, cost and time impact and risk quantification.
• Create work plans and cost estimates for the area of responsibility.
• Carry out risk and opportunity assessments during commissioning, run regular safety observation tours and recommend mitigations.
• Coordinate site activities for customer acceptance certification and share commissioning information with customers and contractors.
• Manage external organisations to ensure availability of commissioning equipment, systems or services.
• Share lessons learned and give feedback to the organisation.
• Use standard processes to meet safety and contractual requirements, and guide Associate Commissioning Engineers and entry-level engineers and technicians.

Required profile

• Owns or is eligible to obtain a passport and holds a valid driver's licence for a sedan or light delivery vehicle.
• Fluent in English, as all documents and instructions are in English.
• Physically fit to carry or move test equipment up to 35 kg alone, use ladders safely and apply HSE learnings on site.
• Able to travel outside the country.

Required skills

• Basic understanding of protection, control and measurement principles applied to feeders, transformers, busbars, capacitor banks and generators.
• Ability to read scheme drawings, test circuits, perform fault finding and create test reports.
• Hitachi PCM600 software and Hitachi test equipment software.
• Hand tools such as multimeter, screwdrivers, wire cutters, wire strippers, crimpers, pliers and wrenches.