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Our client is a rapidly expanding electricity and transmission company. They are seeking a Senior Planning Engineer.

- Responsible for assisting the Section Head in Long Term Planning at the organisation to identify, analyze, and initiate new projects required.
- Coordinating strategic planning functions and carrying out investment appraisals.
- Responsible for completing the risk analysis and looking for opportunities to improve the organisation's performance
- Handles the review and approvals for the updates to project plans and project requests.

Functions of the role:

Operational
- Responsible for the improvement of the strategic planning at the organisation
- Responsible for completing pre-investment appraisal documents
- Ensures sufficient, suitable resources, materials and equipment are available to the engineers.
- Plan System expansion to meet requirements of sector law and company obligations - economic, security, reliability and load growth projections
- Prepare plans, specifications, and cost estimates for the organisation projects, conduct feasibility studies and economic studies of alternative plans.
- Maintenance and updating of the power system models
- Ensures all projects within his responsibility comply with company and regulatory standards and to the agreed end user requirements.
- Conduct system studies, load flow, compensation, short circuit levels, stability, state estimate, (n-1) criteria
- Develop in-house competence to meet most of the system study needs, especially in Load flow, short circuit levels, relay settings and stability.
- Ensure implementation and adherence to the requirements of the corporate health, safety and Environment management system

Education and Experience Required:
- Degree in Electrical/Power Engineering or equivalent, preferably with a masters Degree in Electrical Power Engineering with experience in Electrical Utilities.
- Familiar with proposals, construction, engineering and consultative projects.
- Knowledge of Quality assurance Certificates and systems (ISO).
- Knowledge of cost estimation methodologies.