Project Engineer - EC&I at ABB

You will be working as Project Engineer and will be the part of Process Automation business area for Process Industries division based in Longmeadow, South Africa. In this role you will be reporting to Team Lead – Technical Consulting and will be responsible to design authority for an engineering discipline with low to medium complexity, complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects, cost-effectively and in accordance with contract specifications, quality standards and safety requirements

Your responsibilities

• Evaluating, selecting and applying standard techniques and procedures to perform engineering assignments, providing technical support for testing, installation and commissioning activities, preparing project documentation within one’s scope of deliverables
• Finalizing ‘Fail-Safe Philosophy’ and other key concepts as part of Kick-Off and Design Freeze Meetings, actively participating project meetings and resolving any outstanding technical issues to meet contractual obligations
• Assisting in preparing proposal/presentation of engineering projects/programs (provision of bills of materials, estimated engineering hours, etc.), applying basic design thinking / design for excellence concepts in projects, actively utilizing checklists to perform design verification according applicable standards and engineering guidelines
• Contributing and sharing experiences in workshops pertaining to engineering design, tools and processes, sharing best practices lessons-learned documentation across different projects and disciplines, updating the engineering deliverables post installation & commissioning (if applicable)
• Using standard processes and tools applicable to one’s area of responsibility, ensuring that engineering activities comply with required safety regulations and contractual requirements, reporting processes and tools inefficiencies and suggesting improvements ideas
• Supporting technical risk assessments and implements resulting actions for one’s projects, reporting any contract / safety / quality / program / cost issues to Project Manager(s) for resolution, ensuring Bill of Material (BOM) for the project meets contractual obligations and project gross margin requirements by not generating Project Left-Over Material (PLOM)
• Identifying and implementing variation requests to support contract claims based on the approval from Project Manager, following work plans and cost estimates provided by the Project Manager and ensuring quality deliverables on time and at targeted cost, collaborating with the supply chain function and the Project Manager(s) to meet the contractual obligations
• Coordinating with manufacturing and testing functions to ensure the technical solutions are appropriately manufactured/ staged and tested, updating the engineering deliverables as-built, coordinating with commissioning / service functions to ensure the designs are appropriately installed and commissioned (if applicable as part of the contract)

Your background

• Bachelor’s Degree in BEng/BSc Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Minimum 5 Years’ EC&I project experience
• Fast learner with the ability to solve complex problems
• Site experience and willingness to travel and disciplined in compilation of documentation
• Fluency in English language is mandatory