Senior Engineer Prof Asset Investment Planning x 2 (Investment Optimisation and Spares Management) at Eskom Communications

Job description

Key Responsibilities 

• Ensure technical deliverables, services to internal and external customers.
• Develop discipline specific philosophies, technical standards, procedures, work practices and specifications for approval.
• Manage governance and finances.
• Participate in national and international technical forums.
• Provide professional technical leadership 

Skills and Competencies Required: 

Leadership

• Team player
• Motivating teams
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Developing
• Entrepreneurial mind-set
• Build effective relationships and delivery on expectations
• Results and delivery focused 

Behavioral 

• Integrity
• Honesty
• Trustworthiness
• Strong drive to learn
• Safety consciousness
• Professionalism
• Self-starter 

Knowledge 

• Technology strategy formulation, forecasting, road mapping
• Risk analysis principles
• Project management principles
• Sound knowledge and understanding of all electrical plant systems, network design and
• operations
• Understanding design, maintenance base and operator training system (OTS)
• Business processes management.
• Division investment approval and project life-cycle model
• Portfolio investment planning and optimisation
• Accounting knowledge for consolidating business cases 

Skill            

• Strategic thinking
• Negotiation
• Analytical
• Financial management
• Communication and presentation
• Leadership
• Dynamic, hardworking and work under pressure
• Problem solving

Minimum requirements

Qualification(s):

• BSc Eng/B Eng in Mechanical/Chemical/Electrical/ Electronic/Mechatronic/Computer/Civil/ Metallurgical/Industrial Engineering at NQF8 with 480 credits

Related Minimum Experience:

• 4 Experience in network planning, design, development, operations and maintenance of   power systems

Professional Registration Body:

• Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as professional engineer

Apply by: 12 December 2025