Senior Technician - Protection at Anglo American

Job Description:
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the position of a Technician – Protection, Utilities, Engineering Department.

• Demonstrates safety leadership, sustainable development and DBCM values.
• Assist and advise on maintenance and repairs of electrical equipment
• Assist, advise and manage maintenance on overhead line, transformers, medium voltage switchgear, cables, MV motors, power factor correction, protection & control systems.
• Management of Overhead Line Reticulation.
• Ensures compliance with all legal, environmental, occupational health and safety and risk management standards and best practices.
• Manages and motivates team in area of responsibility.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with colleagues, contractors and other maintenance personnel.
• Contributes to continuous improvement and asset optimisation initiatives for engineering processes.
• Carry out fault level, load flow and protection discrimination studies.
• Conduct and assess condition monitoring such as acoustic ultrasound and thermographic assessments.
• Conducting tests and trials of new equipment, evaluating results and submitting written reports.
• Testing and assessment of MV Equipment.
• Reading and assessing reports related to electrical equipment and interpreting results to formulate actions
• Planning, coordinating and project management for the design, fabrication, testing, installation and commissioning of medium voltage systems or equipment.
• Interpret and apply relevant internal, national and international standards for electrical equipment and management thereof
• Participate in standardization of equipment, spares management and overall quality control of electrical equipment

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/ Std 10/N3 or relevant NQF 4 equivalent qualifications.
• Electrical Trade Certificate with Red Seal
• National Diploma in Electrical Heavy Current will be advantageous
• Effective communication skills in English (written and verbal).
• 5 years minimum mining maintenance experience in electrical distribution.
• Good computer literacy; proficiency in SAP will be advantageous

Knowledge and Experience in the following:

• Sound knowledge in the construction, installation, maintenance, testing, repair and fault finding of the following MV (Medium Voltage) Equipment:
• Protection Systems.
• Electricity safety and switching practices.
• Transformers operation.
• Electric motors operation and control.
• Overhead lines and bundled conductors and related equipment.
• Indoor and outdoor switchgear SF6 and vacuum operation.
• XLPE cable installation, jointing, termination and testing.
• Planning and prioritizing tasks. Note: Experience with Microsoft Projects (or equivalent) will be advantageous
• Expertise in performing system modelling for the purpose of fault level, load flow and protection discrimination activities using the ETAP software tool is a prerequisite.
• Drawing and maintaining electrical SLDs (Single Line Diagrams) in AutoCAD (or equivalent) is required
• Sound knowledge and comprehension of applicable regulations and standards are required, with particular reference to Mine Health and Safety Act provisions
• Experience on the following equipment will be highly advantageous:
• Schneider MiCom protection relays
• ABB Unigear
• SATEC energy metering
• Simocode
• MODBUS, IEC18650 and other substation control protocols
• Assertiveness and Decisiveness