Senior Engineer Prof Engineering - Reliability Eng at Eskom Communications

Skills and Competencies Required:

 Leadership

• Entrepreneurial mind set
• Ability to build effective relationship
• Coaching and mentoring
• Developing

Behavioural

• Strong drive to learn
• Results and delivery focused
• Integrity
• Professionalism
• Safety consciousness 

Knowledge

• Related technologies
• Design codes and standards
• Engineering theory
• Relevant processes, procedures, policies, guidelines, and legislation
• Engineering design
• RBI implementation and facilitation will be advantageous.
• Pressure equipment, piping systems, turbines, generators or balance-of-plant equipment.

Skill

• Technical problem solving
• Analytical
• Cost analysis/economic evaluation
• Communication
• Presentation
• Technical report writing 

Key Responsibilities

• Resolve complex integrated engineering problems.
• Validate and integrate life cycle plans for the plant.
• Provide specialist engineering advice/assistance.
• Manage engineering projects/modifications.
• Perform technical and financial evaluations.
•  Lead and sustain the Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) programme across Peaking Generation assets.
•  Facilitate RBI assessments and develop risk-based inspection strategies.
•  Maintain RBI databases, inspection plans and asset risk registers
•  Coordinate specialist engineering assessments, including fitness-for-service evaluations.
•  Support outage planning and equipment integrity initiatives.
•  Monitor asset health and recommend actions to reduce risk and improve reliability.
•  Participate in investigations relating to equipment failures and asset integrity concern

Minimum requirements
 Qualification(s):

• BSc/B Eng in Mechanical/ Mechatronic Engineering at NQF8 with 480 credits 

 Related Minimum Experience:

• 4 years related technical experience and engineering related technologies

 Professional Registration:

• Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) Professional Engineer