Project Engineer - Protection

Hitachi Rail • Lethabong, Gauteng, South Africa • Posted June 15, 2026

Location Lethabong, Gauteng
Job Type Full-time
Category Engineers
Posted June 15, 2026

Description

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The opportunity

You as a Project Engineer – Protection will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Designing engineering of Substation control and protection systems leading up to site commissioning to ensure projects are executed in accordance with Hitachi Energy procedures, contract specifications and schedule commitments, quality standards, health, safety & environment requirements.

How you’ll make an impact

  • Developing together with the project core team the protection and control concepts for transmission and distribution substations in line with customer specification.
  • Developing protection and control IEDs configuration in line with customer specification and approved detailed designs.
  • Developing testing procedures to perform factory acceptance testing in conjunction with the customer to prove functionality of the designs.
  • Specification and sizing of cont...
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