Job Openings at Eskom Communications

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct live line operations in accordance with the approved helicopter operating procedures and Transmission live work standards, guidelines, and instructions.
• Flies a helicopter in accordance with South African Civil Authority Association (SACCA regulations.
• Ensure customer satisfaction.
• Maintain administrative efficiency.
• Contribution to overall company efficiency. 

Skills and Competencies Required:

Leadership

• Dynamic
• Able to withstand work pressure
• Able to work independently and as a team player
• Decision maker

 Behavioural

•  Integrity
• Honesty
• Reliable
• Professionalism

Knowledge

•  Long line vertical reference flight techniques
• Power line maintenance
• Inspection/patrol
• Helicopter aided construction
• Geographical survey
• Agricultural spraying
• Emergency medical service
• Mountain flying

Skills

•  Analytic
• Interpersonal
• Communication

Minimum requirements

Qualification(s): 

• Commercial Pilot License (RSA) 

Related Minimum Experience: 

• 5 years
• Helicopter flight hours: total – 2000
• Pilot in Command – 1500 hours
• Turbine helicopter – 1000 hours
• Under - slung rating
• Maintenance and test flight rating

Apply by: 18 March 2026

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Job description
Key Responsibilities

• Integration of complex projects across all design disciplines and external role players.
• Contracting, forecasting, and managing design delivery of complex projects
• Develops discipline specific philosophies, technical standards, procedures, work practices and specifications.
• Oversees and integrates complex engineering solutions/design for asset creation on behalf of customers at various stages of the project lifecycle.
• Plans and controls discipline-specific research on new technologies / processes.
• Represents Eskom in national and international forums
• Manages and conducts complex product, equipment, material, service and change impact evaluations.
• Provides complex technical consulting and investigation service for customers.
• Provides professional technical leadership. 

Skills and Competencies Required

Behavioural:

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

Leadership:

• Entrepreneurial mind-set
• Build effective relationships
• Coaching and mentoring
• Work in teams

Knowledge:

• Working knowledge of Physical Security Systems and related technologies
• Design codes and standards
• Engineering theory
• Relevant processes, procedures, policies, guidelines and legislation
• Engineering design
• Technical problem solving

Skill:

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

Minimum requirements
Qualification(s): 

• BSc/B Eng in Engineering at NQF8 with 80 credits

 Professional Registration Body:

• Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSAas a Professional Engineer.

Experience:

•  4 years Technical experience engineering related technologies.

Apply by: 16 March 2026

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Job description
Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical consulting and investigation services.
• Produce and integrate complex engineering solutions/designs.
• Develop and approve discipline specific philosophies, technical standards, procedures, work practices and specifications.
• Develop discipline specific technology vision, strategy, and direction.
• Plan and change discipline specific research into new technologies.
• Represent Eskom in national and international technical forums.

 
Skills and Competencies Required:

• Leadership
• Entrepreneurial mind-set
• Ability to build effective relationships and delivery on expectations.
• Coaching and mentoring

Behavioral

• Strong drive to learn.
• Be results and delivery focused.
• Be able to work as part of a team.
• Integrity
• Safety consciousness
• Professionalism

Knowledge

• Technology strategy formulation
• Technology forecasting
• Management of technology projects
• Risk analysis principles
• Project management principles
• All electrical plant systems, network design and operation
• Design base, operational technology solutions (OTS) and maintenance base
• Business management processes
• Sound knowledge and understanding of all electrical plant systems, network design and operation.

Electrical system analytical

• Skill
• Strategic thinking
• Negotiation
• Financial management
• Communication and presentation
• Leadership
• Superior analytical and problem solving

Attributes

• None

Minimum requirements

• Qualification(s):  BSc Eng/B Eng Degree in Engineering at NQF8 with 480 credits
• Qualification in NDT Level 3 will be advantageous.

Apply by: 23 March 2026

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Job description

• Explore, diagnose, recommend and improve policies, standards and best practices.
• Formulate and position the strategic framework for project management capabilities for projects.
• Identify, interpret, review and recommend the formulation and implementation of project management capabilities, governance and methodology.
• Conceptualise, formulate strategic direction and report on matters related to project management capabilities for capital investment projects.
• Evaluate, advise and report on data integrity within the designated systems for the project management capabilities.
• Mentor and coach on project management capabilities.

Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• BSc/B Eng Degree in Engineering/
• Honours Degree in Quantity
• Surveying/Built Environment at NQF8 with 480 credits
• 7 Year: Related Minimum Experience:
• Project management/portfolio management/programme management/project controls/contracts managment/quantitative risk/commissioningmanagement/construction management

Apply by: 24 March 2026

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Job description
Skills and Competencies Required

Behavioural:

• Honesty
• Integrity
• Professionalism
• Trustworthiness

Leadership:

• Sound people management and business acumen
• Team player
• Transform opportunities into concrete business
• Initiative and driven
• Customer centricity at executive level
• Service delivery excellence
• Credibility and ability to build commitment for customer satisfaction

 
Knowledge:

• Thorough understanding of customer service and marketing theory
• Understanding business processes
• NTCSA business
• Independent Power Producers (IPPs)
• Process management
• Pricing
• Contracting
• Legal

Skills:

• Communication and negotiation
• Create and maintain a customer focused culture
• Work effectively with all levels
• Conflict handling
• Problem solving and decision-making
• Handle a pressured and changing environment
• Demonstrate good judgement

Key Responsibilities

• Provide internal and external independent power producer (IPP) relationship management, leadership and direction.
• Provide personal and pro-active IPP, generator end-to-end service and product delivery.Provide IPP advisory, stakeholder and interface management services.
• Provide strategic IPP grid access.
• Integrate IPP process.
• Manage employees and ensure training.

Minimum requirements
Qualification(s): 

• B Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma/National Higher Diploma in Engineering/Finance/Legal at NQF7 with 360 credits or equivalent.

Experience:

• 7 years experience in dealing with IPPs in the field of customer service.

Apply by: 16 March 2026

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Job description

Behavioral:

 ·       Professionalism, Honesty , Integrity

 Leadership:

• Team player
• Coaching, mentoring, developing

 Knowledge:

•  Investigation procedures
• Knowledge of Eskom’s procedures and standards
• Knowledge of Eskom’s business and financial procedures
• Knowledge of statutory/legislative requirements
• Knowledge of network, plant and equipment
• Basic understanding of Secondary Plant Systems Basic knowledge of software application, TWS, FALLS, LLS, TXSIS, AFIS, SAP PM, phoenix

 Skills:

• Communication
• Computer/Operational Technology (OT) skills
• Technical Knowledge and analytical skills to diagnose problems in electrical equipment or systems and develop appropriate solutions
• Negotiation skills
• Leadership skills
• Interpersonal relations

 Key Responsibilities:

• Planned maintenance
• Audits
• Commissioning
• Breakdown maintenance
• Secondary Plant Performance Enhancement/Fault Investigations
• Administration
• Safety and risk management

Minimum requirements

Qualification(s): 

• National N Diploma Electrical/ National Diploma Electrical at NQF 6 with 240 Credits

Experience: 

• 3 years Techncial experience

Apply by: 11 March 2026

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Job description
Skills and Competencies Required

Behavioral

• Strong drive to learn,
• Be results and delivery-focused,
• Be able to work as part of a team,
• Integrity,
• Safety consciousness,
• Professionalism.

Leadership

• Team leader with excellent motivation skills
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Develop People

Knowledge

• Thorough knowledge of power plant processes
• Good Eskom business knowledge
• Heat rate and condition monitoring system usage
• Knowledge of power plant regulatory requirements
• Must have completed root cause analysis course
• Thorough understanding of advanced software applications
• Thorough knowledge of heat balance for thermal power plant
• Condition monitoring principles and application

Skill

• Skilled at power plant operations with operating experience
• Engineering skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Good communication skills

Attributes(Clearly define attributes such as colour blindness and physical disabilities that might hinder performance)

• Must be energetic and work unpredictable long hours

Assessment (Clearly define the means through which the actual job requirement will be measured at or after the interview. In other words, those key elements that must be demonstrated by the individual to assure capability)

• Understanding the principles that guide RMDC monitoring
• Clear on the operations of the power plant
• Understand Thermodynamics and Heat Rate Monitoring
• Must demonstrate understanding of conditioning monitoring

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure real-time heat rate and condition monitoring
• Review critical plant operations, philosophies and develop effective work methods where deficiencies occur
• Determine root cause analysis
• Ensure long-term health plant life cycle

Minimum requirements
Minimum Requirements

Qualification(s):

• B Tech (Technical), National Higher Diploma (Technical)                                                                                          

Experience:

• 5 years: Power plant processes conditioning monitoring

Apply by: 12 March 2026

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Job description
Skills and Competencies Required

Behavioural:

• Resilience and flexibility
• Integrity and values
• Professionalism
• Trustworthiness

Leadership:

• Strategy generation and alignment
• Change leadership
• Stakeholder mobilisation management
• Represents Esko
• Embraces diversity
• Emotional maturity
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Business acumen
• Teamwork, collaboration
• Dealing with complexity
• Working with authority
• Providing direction through change
• Strategic thinking
• Building, develop teams
• Building cross boundary, cultural relationships• Customer orientation

Knowledge:

• Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and other project management systems and tools
• Construction management and regulations Earned value management (EVM)
• Contracts management
• Quantity surveying
• Financial management
• General management
• Portfolio strategic alignment
• Portfolio governance management
• Portfolio performance management
• Portfolio communications management
• Portfolio risk management
• Portfolio stakeholder management

Skill:

• Problem-solving
• Judgment and decision making
• Influencing and persuading
• Client focus
• Organisational communication
• Delegation of authority and responsibility
• Developing organisational talent
• Negotiation, persuasiveness
• Planning and organising
• Strategic functional leadership

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of project management procedures, guidelines and standards.
• Manage portfolio accounting, costing and cost control systems.
• Monitor, assess and improve the network expansion portfolio execution of projects.
• Manage portfolio planning and schedule control processes.
• Establish and manage the project contracting environment.
• Act as a project management centre of excellence.
• Manage programme and project management mentoring and coaching.

Minimum requirements
Qualification(s):

• B Degree / B Tech / Advanced Diploma in Built Environment / Commerce / Human Sciences at NQF7 with 360 credits

Experience:

• 7 years’ Experience in Project management

Apply by: 20 March 2026

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Job description
Skills and Competencies Required

Behavioural:

• Resilience and flexibility
• Professionalism
• Trustworthiness
• Honesty
• Integrity and values

Leadership:

• Strategy generation and alignment
• Change leadership
• Stakeholder mobilisation management
• Represent Eskom
• Embrace diversity
• Emotional maturity
• Business acumen
• Dealing with complexity
• Working with authority
• Providing direction through change
• Strategic thinking
• Building/develop teams
• Building cross boundary relationships

Knowledge:

• Scheduling tool
• Business integration
• Eskom financial systems
• Eskom Project Life Cycle Model (PLCM)
• Contracts management
• Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS)
• Areas of the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Project integration
• Project scope management
• Project time/schedule management
• Project cost management
• Project quality management
• Project human resource management
• Project communications management
• Project risk management
• Project procurement management
• Project stakeholder management
• Technical, system background
• Accredited as responsible person in terms of Operating Regulations for Plant and/or High Voltage Systems (ORHVS)
• Systems, Applications and Products (SAP) and project management systems and tools

Skills:

• Client focus
• Analytical
• Problem-solving
• People management
• Computer literate in Microsoft applications
• Influencing and persuading
• Interpersonal
• Decision making
• Communication and stakeholder management at executive level
• Judgement
• Negotiation and conflict resolution
• Key Responsibilities
• Provide project control on cost, time and quality.
• Conduct project planning.
• Provide project communication and reporting.
• Ensure project coordination and team management.
• Ensure project safety, health, environmental, risk and quality (SHERQ).
• Provide project contract management.
• Execute project commissioning.

Minimum requirements
Qualification(s):

• B Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Built Environment/Commerce/Human Sciences at NQF7 with 360 credits

Experience:

• 5 years in Infrastructure, Real Estate project management and construction.

Professional Registration Body:

• South African Council of Project and Construction Management Professionals
• (SACPCMP) as a Professional Construction Project Manager (Pr.CPM).

Apply by: 13 March 2026