Lead Electrical Engineer – Permanent | Bedfordview, Johannesburg A leading consulting engineering firm is looking for a Lead Electrical Engineer to join their team, working on HV power distribution and transmission substations and overhead lines up to 765kV. This is an exciting opportunity to work across a diverse mix of renewables, distribution and transmission infrastructure projects, with real scope to grow into a senior technical leadership role. What you’ll be doing: Planning and design
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About Engineering work in Gauteng
Engineering demand in South Africa tracks infrastructure, mining and manufacturing capital cycles, so it moves in waves rather than steadily. ECSA registration is the dividing line in this profession: candidate or professional registration materially changes both what you are permitted to sign off and what you can command. Keep your training logbook current even between contracts. Reconstructing a gap in the record years later is slow, expensive, and occasionally impossible.
Gauteng is the country’s employment engine. Johannesburg — particularly Sandton, Rosebank and Midrand — carries finance, technology and corporate head offices; Pretoria is the government and public sector centre; Ekurhuleni holds manufacturing and logistics. Weigh the commute carefully, because it is the real cost of a Gauteng offer.
Engineering jobs on JobsJunction
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