Workplace: Energy Corporate Office - Boksburg
Purpose
The key purpose for this position is to manage and provide strategic direction to Energy Revenue Services
Key performance areas:
- Strategically and practically managing the realization of Council’s largest single source of income, by ensuring that the electricity technical metering systems, business processes, policies, operational standards, tariffs, predicted income budgets are in alignment.
- Ensuring that the energy balance reflects the best possible values, taking into account the effectiveness of metering and other measures to deal with kilowatt-hour losses, such as the removal of illegal connections, law enforcement aspects and much more.
- Deal with inaccurate accounts and other challenges that occur on bulk electricity purchase accounts from Eskom
- Manage the impact that the adoption of alternative energy sources by customers will have on revenue earned from the sales of electricity as well as expenditure on purchases of electricity, given that the very existence of electricity distribution hinges on an effective method of dealing with these technologies
- Use specialist knowledge on the interlinking points of several specialist fields in electricity distribution, to develop sustainable processes to manage large volumes of meters and related processes in a standard way (workflows supported by key skills, demand and other meter maintenance, inclusive of vector analysis, and more).
- Contribute to the development and implementation of an operational strategy for each business area (in revenue services that is strategic revenue, vending, metering and tariffs, revenue protection, metering and electrical installations) in alignment with the divisional objectives.
- Establishing and maintaining strategic relationships across multiple functional areas to enable knowledge sharing and integration of specialist practice
Core Requirements:
- Electrical Engineering B Degree / B.Tech Degree or relevant equivalent NQF 7
- Relevant Postgraduate Qualification will be an added advantage (NQF Level 8)
- Extensive experience in electrical distribution, networks and metering will be an added advantage
- ECSA registered (Pr Eng., / Pr Tech Eng, /Pr Cert Eng.)
- Extensive experience in tariff pricing and structure design and/or electrical meter installations will be an added advantage
- 8 years’ experience in a similar environment of which 4 years must be at Senior Management level. Extensive engineering knowledge, management knowledge, communications skills, written skills and finance management skills
Enquiries: Tel: Natasja Havenga (011) 999 6356.
Note: The successful candidate who does not have the NQF Level 5 Finance Management qualification will be required to obtain it within 18 months, in terms of the National Treasury Requirement.
Appointments will be made on a 5 (five) year fixed term and will be subject to the signing of an employment contract, performance agreement and disclosure of financial interest.
Candidates will be subjected to relevant competency assessment as well as security clearance / vetting processes.
Applications will not be considered if the necessary copies of the required qualifications, identity documents, driver’s license (if applicable) and current professional registration (if applicable), are not attached to the application / CV.
Candidates may be requested to submit proof of the NQF level applicable to the qualifications they have obtained.
Should candidates not be informed of the outcome of the application within six weeks of the closing date, it should be regarded as having been unsuccessful.
The City of Ekurhuleni subscribes to the principles of the Employment Equity Act and reserves the right to appoint, not appoint or to appoint laterally.
