Senior Professional Officer - Long Term Planning at City of Cape Town

Requirements

• BSc degree in Electrical Engineering, or BTech degree in Electrical Engineering
• Registered Professional Engineer or eligible for registration, or Registered Professional Engineering Technologist or eligible for registration
• Minimum of five (5) years’ postgraduate and directly applicable or acceptable experience in an electricity distribution system environment with exposure to a wide range of technologies
• Extensive knowledge of power system engineering and related disciplines especially load forecasting
• Sound knowledge of safety legislation and practice
• User knowledge of power system engineering and geographical information system software will be preferred
• Code B driver's licence.

Key Performance Areas

• Conduct research and investigations such as investigating load data for any network trends, network abnormalities, load shifts, plant out-of-service, change in normal open points, long-duration outages, or project work-in-progress and conducting a network
•  performance evaluation
• Compile/conduct long-term load forecasting which includes collecting, collating, updating, assessing, evaluating, reviewing, and scrutinising load requirements for development proposals and disseminating transversal information of long-term development plans
• Prepare a strategic long-term plan for extensions and replacement of equipment on the high and medium voltage system that falls within the utility’s supply area
• Facilitate the development of long-term projects, systems, policies, and procedures and their implementation, working with other professionals from the same or related disciplines
• Communicate with management, fellow professionals as well as internal and external stakeholders, disseminate information on the long-term objectives and current developments, problems, and constraints to address issues of common interest, and share information
• Utilise specialised as well as mainstream computer software.