Electrical Design Engineer Job in Kenya (USD 3K - 4K)

A well established Engineering & Construction Company is looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer. 

The successful candidate should be keen, progressive, versatile individual who can adopt a flexible approach to their role to provide support to all teams across the office as workload dictates. 

An individual who is willing to go the extra mile to ensure work is delivered correctly and accurately and on time which may, on occasion, include working outside of normal office hours.
 

Responsibility:

• Carry out electrical engineering analysis & produce calculations.
• Develop designs from clients/project specifications.
• Check and evaluate design and material specifications for tender.
• Review electrical designs & construction drawings.
• Designing of power generation and distribution systems including associated load, fault current and voltage drop calculations.
• Responding to site RFIs, conducting reviews of specialist suppliers or contractor prepared designs, and attending site meetings to resolve construction issues.
• In-depth knowledge of local electrical regulations, international design standards and codes of practice; as well as a basic knowledge of local and international building codes, and structural / architectural industry practices.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops.

Required skills:

• Must possess a degree in electrical engineering.
• Must have Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Professional Engineer (PE) status.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a design engineer preferably in multiple disciplines.
• Experience of renewable energy desired.
• Comfortable in a highly entrepreneurial and continuously changing environment.
• Commercial awareness of design.
• Excellent written, verbal, and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Track record of interacting effectively and collaboratively with a broad range of government, private sector, and civil society counterparts.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Previous experience in Africa and/or the Middle East preferred.
• Must be competent in working to both British Standard (BS) and US (NFPA/NEC) codes.
• Familiar with developing specifications and standards.
• Computer skills (CAD design skills, MS Office experience (in particular EXCEL).
• Travel within African continent as and when needed for proposal management and business development purposes

Monthly gross salary: 3,000 – 4,000USD depending on experience
 

Deadline: 15th January 2014
 

Applications:
 

Send your up to date CV to: 

application@summitrecruitment-kenya.com
Summit Recruitment & Training, 

Blixen Court, Karen road, 

Karen
 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. 

Please indicate in your email which position you are interested in. 

Only candidates stating current salary will be considered. 
 

Please do not apply if you do not meet the requirements of the job