Chief Technologist Systems and Tools needed at Eskom Communications

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop discipline-specific technology vision, strategy and direction setting.
• Develop and approve discipline specific philosophies, technical standards, procedures, work practices and specifications.
• Oversee, produce and integrate complex engineering solutions, design for asset creation.
• Plan and control discipline-specific research regarding new technologies.
• Represent Eskom at national and international technical forums.
• Manage and conduct complex product, equipment, material, service and change impact evaluations.
• Provide complex technical consulting and investigation service for customers.
• Provide professional technical leadership for senior technologists, senior engineers, technologists and engineers in different disciplines.
• Skills and Competencies Required:

Behavioural:

• Strong drive to learn
• Honesty
• Trustworthiness
• Results and delivery focused
• Integrity
• Safety consciousness
• Professionalism

Leadership:

• Team player
• Entrepreneurial mind-set
• Build effective relationships and delivery on expectations
• Coaching
• Mentoring
• Knowledge:
• Technology strategy formulation
• Technology forecasting
• Technology road-mapping
• Management of technology projects
• Risk analysis principles
• Project management principles
• Understanding electrical plant systems, network design and operation
• Electrical system analysis
• Understanding design base, outage technical support (OTS) and maintenance base
• Business processes management
• Superior analytical and problem solving
• Financial management

Skills:

• Strategic thinking
• Financial management
• Communication and presentation
• Report writing
• Analytical
• Negotiation

Minimum requirements

Qualification(s):

• B Tech Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics/Mechatronics/Computer/
• Civil/Chemical/Metallurgical/Industrial Engineering at NQF7 with 360 credits
• Professional Registration Body: Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as professional technologist

Related Minimum Experience:

• 7 years technical experience engineering related technologies
• Maintenance, operations and/or technical support to the technical operations of power generation or power delivery (Transmission and Distribution) infrastructure.
• Experience in engineering technologies, standards, specifications. processes.

Apply by: 10 December 2025