Senior Electrical Engineer

Opportunity

Key responsibilities

• Lead completion, testing, commissioning, closeout, and handover of electrical systems across water transmission infrastructure, pumping stations, treatment facilities, substations, and related assets.
• Identify outstanding electrical work, completion gaps, and risks; coordinate recovery actions for closeout milestones.
• Verify installations against approved designs, specifications, applicable codes and standards, quality requirements, and electrical safety procedures.
• Resolve technical queries, punch-list items, non-conformances, design changes, concessions, and contractor action items.
• Coordinate acceptance testing, energization, functional and integrated systems testing, reliability testing, and performance demonstrations.
• Review commissioning records, test results, safety documents, energization procedures, protection settings, inspection reports, and acceptance evidence.
• Coordinate interfaces with mechanical, process, civil, structural, instrumentation, control, SCADA, telecommunications, and operations teams.
• Verify as-built drawings, O&M manuals, asset registers, spare-parts records, warranties, training records, and equipment certificates.
• Support inspections, asset acceptance, contractor demobilization, operational readiness, and transfer to the client and operations teams.
• Provide technical leadership, resolve complex issues, mentor junior engineers, and communicate with project stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

• Minimum 10 years of relevant electrical engineering experience, including completion, testing, commissioning, closeout, and handover of major infrastructure projects.
• Experience with water infrastructure, pumping stations, treatment facilities, utilities, or industrial assets.
• Strong knowledge of HV, MV, and LV systems, substations, transformers, switchgear, motor control centers, drives, generators, motors, protection systems, cabling, earthing, and electrical distribution.
• Demonstrated experience with punch lists, non-conformances, technical queries, testing, energization, commissioning records, closeout documentation, operational readiness, and handover.
• Strong knowledge of applicable IEC, IEEE, NFPA, NEC, ISO, local authority, and electrical safety requirements.
• Experience with ETAP, DIgSILENT PowerFactory, or equivalent, and platforms such as AutoCAD, Revit, BIM, or Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Professional engineering registration, chartership, or membership of a recognized engineering institution is advantageous.
• Strong technical leadership and communication skills.