# Senior Substation Design Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Midrand, Gauteng
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP South Africa is seeking a Senior Substation Design Engineer with a BSc or BEng in Electrical Engineering or similar. The successful candidate will primarily function as a substation secondary plant design engineer for transmission and distribution projects.

Responsibilities:

- Prepare or review conceptual or functional designs, specifications, bills of quantity, and tender documents for substation projects.

- Design and configure protection, automation, and SCADA systems.

- Perform fault studies, relay settings calculations, and coordination reports for transmission and distribution systems.

- Review submitted designs against specifications.

- Ensure compliance with industry standards such as IEC, IEEE, NRS, SANS, and Eskom standards.

- Provide project engineering support during construction and commissioning phases.

- Participate in design reviews, HAZOPs, FATs, SATs, and site commissioning support.

- Mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications:

- A Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar from an internationally recognized institution.

- Minimum 15 years' engineering experience in protection and communication design for power network projects.

- Professional registration with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) or an internationally recognized institution.

Key Competencies and Generic Skills:

- Fluent spoken and written English language.

- Ability to work as part of a dispersed and remote team.

- Good technical report writing skills.

- Ability to manage time, quality, and effort to deliver a quality product within time and cost constraints.

What's in it for you?: WSP offers competitive pay, standard benefits including first-class medical cover, generous annual leave, and paid professional subscriptions.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- substation design
- protection and communication systems
- SCADA systems
- IEC standards
- IEEE standards

### Nice to have
- renewable energy
- Eskom standards
- Grid code requirements
- Siemens
- ABB
- GE
- SEL

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