In its pursuit to become a Competitive Commercial Power Utility within the Region, Botswana Power Corporation invites applications from suitably qualified, highly energetic, dynamic, result oriented, innovative, and customer focused individuals, who believe they can be part of a great team that delivers power to Botswana to apply for the below listed position not later than 6th November 2022.
Main purpose of the position
Job Responsibilities
- Develops protection guidelines for efficient operations of protection systems to improve network availability.
- Provide technical support to operations and maintenance teams for speedy systems restorations during outages or breakdowns
- Develops protection settings and coordination philosophy to enhance proper coordination of protection devices.
- Perform network wide protection systems studies to determine systems faults level withstand.
- Revise and approve system protection settings to ensure their correctness prior to application.
- Manages testing, maintenance, and repair execution of protection systems.
- Manages installation of protection and control devices in accordance with their specific original equipment manufacturers guidelines and BPC’s policies and standards.
- Performs protection commissioning activities to ensure network availability.
- Manages control and automation processes to enhance systems visibility for continuous monitoring.
- Oversees system documentation and drawings to ensure they are up to date, available and for easy of reference
- Monitors the design and modifications of protection schemes to ensure optimised system performance and operations.
- Conduct protection systems audits to address systems deficiencies
- Develops and oversees protection equipment specific procedures to be followed during Factory Acceptance Tests to ensure compliance to approved designs
- Manages the development of budget for protection section.
- Analyses collated data and information from all Protection and control equipment for system performance monitoring, evaluation, and system studies.
- Performs post faults analysis, investigations, produce reports and provide solutions to avoid recurrences.
- Monitors and assess process efficiencies and design; implement solutions to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Develops strategic advancement plans of old protection devices, systems to keep up with current technologies in protection.
- Recommends and implement the latest protection technologies to keep up with latest trends.
- Develops management processes and maintenance programs for the operation and maintenance of protection systems.
- Develops overall maintenance execution guidelines, templates, and standards.
- Manages inspections of protection systems to ensure optimised system performance and operations.
- Oversees the execution of protection systems maintenance interventions by performing checks of the quality and completeness of all maintenance interventions.
- Coordinate corrective actions across protections devices and systems, considering the defined maintenance requirements from maintenance engineering and the maintenance scheduling.
- Manages the performance of the team by working within a performance management system
- Proposes and implements staff development plans for the area of responsibility to ensure competent, efficient, and motivated staff
- Coaches and mentors’ protection team to help solve technical or procedural problems and issues.
- Promotes and enforce adherence to Safety Health, Environmental and Risk standards contained in the Corporation’s Policies by protection team.
- Design protection schemes or systems which optimises protection/safety of personnel against accidents.
- Prepares procurement documents and papers to ensure budget is spent with the section.
- Evaluates tenders and produce reports for approval to tender committees
- Manages sectional project progress and update Management on regular basis
- Review and approves technical designs during project implementations to ensure compliance to BPC standards
Qualifications
- Recognised Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- Professional Membership of the Engineering Registration Board (ERB) is required.
- A Valid Class B Driver’s license.
- Senior Authorisation is compulsory up to 66kV or 400kV
Experience
- At least Seven (7) years’ post qualification experience in the power environment, two (2) years of which will have been in power system protection.
Competencies
- Drive For Results
- Leadership
- Customer Focus
- Interpersonal Skills
- Management Excellence
- Values Ethic and Integrity
- Problem Solving
- Strategic Thinking
- Process Management
- Action Oriented
Interested and suitably qualified applicants are requested to apply by no later than 6th November 2022. Only shortlisted candidates will be responded to.
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