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• Analyse project requirements and develop electrical and automation system specifications in line with customer and regulatory standards.
• Design electrical layouts and automation solutions, incorporating product integration, panel schematics, and cable routing.
• Generate detailed technical drawings and documentation for production, installation, and commissioning.
• Collaborate with sales, operations, and technical teams to ensure alignment of design intent with commercial and operational objectives.
• Provide field-based technical support during system installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting phases.
• Resolve complex technical issues alongside field engineers, identifying root causes and recommending sustainable solutions.
• Maintain design records, revision histories, and project archives in accordance with engineering and quality management standards.
• Continuously improve design methodologies, drawing libraries, and component standards to enhance project delivery.
• Ensure compliance with relevant safety codes, electrical regulations, and industry best practices.
  
  

• Electrical engineering qualification (BEng, or equivalent).
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in electrical or automation system design within industrial or commercial sectors.
• Proven proficiency in CAD tools (e.g., EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical) for producing technical drawings and schematics.
• Solid understanding of electrical design principles, standards (e.g., SANS, IEC), and protection methodologies.
• Practical working knowledge of power and automation systems.
• Ability to read, interpret, and create technical documentation and wiring diagrams.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a structured and analytical approach to technical challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
  

• Experience providing hands-on technical support or field engineering services.
• Exposure to projects involving system integration, commissioning, or maintenance support.
• Familiarity with panel building, electrical installation, or switchgear applications.
• Customer-facing experience in a solution-oriented technical role.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% for site visits, troubleshooting, and field collaboration.
• Registered or eligible to register as a Professional Engineer.
  
  

• Location: Hybrid (Head Office with occasional regional or site visits).
• Travel Requirements: Up to 25% travel to customer or site locations across Southern Africa.
• Working Hours: Standard working hours; extended hours during critical project phases may apply.
• Compensation Range: Aligned with C5 Paterson Grade; RewardOnline benchmarked compensation between 25%–75% quartiles for equivalent roles.
  
  

• Vision: Advance the lives of every person in Southern Africa sustainably through electrification and automation.
• Mission: Connect with customers by deeply understanding their evolving needs; promote brands and solutions to solve tomorrow’s problems today; and partner across the value chain in a sustainable, easy-to-do-business way.
  
  

• Open – We communicate honestly and transparently, listening deeply to differing views.
• Loyal – We serve our customers, colleagues, and manufacturers with integrity and dedication.
• Brave – We go beyond comfort zones, taking on new challenges with courage and vision.

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SUMMARY:

Design Engineer required to design, implement, and commission jigs and fixtures.

Design Engineer

Recruiter:

Western Cape Recruitment

Job Ref:

CPT000286/CS

Date posted:

Friday, August 15, 2025

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:

Design Engineer required to design, implement, and commission jigs and fixtures.

POSITION INFO:

The Design Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and commissioning jigs and fixtures to improve productivity and safety within production environments. This includes identifying suitable applications, conceptualising and designing solutions, conducting stress analysis, selecting appropriate materials, and producing manufacturing and installation drawings. Responsibilities extend to training production staff, compiling maintenance and calibration procedures, and investigating manufacturing problems to propose viable solutions.

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Requirements:

Minimum: National Diploma in Engineering

2 - 3 Years of Design knowledge and experience within a manufacturing company

Proficient in SolidWorks

Proficient in general computer skills (MS Office)

SA Driverâs license and own vehicle

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• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Advertising Services

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SUMMARY:

Electrical Engineering company looking for a Design Engineer to join their team.

Design Engineer

Recruiter:

FOUR POINT 0

Job Ref:

JHB000122/Louis

Date posted:

Monday, July 14, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

R720,000.00 Annually

SUMMARY:

Electrical Engineering company looking for a Design Engineer to join their team.

POSITION INFO:

We are seeking a Design Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team, with a core focus on power distribution and power quality. Work alongside product and automation specialists to deliver technical solutions to the industrial and commercial sector, support ongoing R&D, and be a key contributor in the evolution of our energy portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Electrical System Design: Lead the design and specification of electrical and automation projects, with a strong emphasis on power distribution, power quality correction, and MCC assemblies. Use CAD tools (e.g., AutoCAD) to produce and maintain technical documentation, drawings, and layouts.
• Project Execution & Solution Architecture: Participate in solution architecture and execution, from initial feasibility and costing to handover and troubleshooting. Collaborate cross-functionally with project managers, proposal engineers, and product specialists.
• Product & Technical Support: Provide Level 3 technical support for the power product portfolio, acting as an expert resource for both customers and internal teams. Aid in technical investigations, application support, and advanced troubleshooting.
• Research & Development: Engage in the research, development, and enhancement of new and existing product solutions within the power and energy markets.
• Business Development: Support the sales team with technical input on proposals and customer engagements. Identify opportunities to drive growth in the power/energy business unit.
• Team & Stakeholder Management: Assist the Engineering Manager with team deliverables, freeing up management capacity and mentoring junior engineers as required.
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (or related field).
• Minimum 5 years’ relevant industry experience (with at least 2 years in a design engineering role), focused on power distribution and power quality. Exposure to automation systems is highly advantageous.
• Strong electrical design and CAD proficiency.
• Solid grounding in energy distribution and power quality principles.
• Understanding of automation systems and integration.
• Experience with solution architecture/execution and technical sales environments.
• Ability to speak Afrikaans.
• Able to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and run projects from concept to completion.
• Comfortable engaging directly with clients, suppliers, and technical teams.
  
  
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Advertising Services

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We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Design Engineer to join our engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and reviewing electrical systems and components in compliance with applicable standards, client specifications, and project requirements. This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative and cost-effective electrical solutions across various projects.

Requirements

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and develop electrical systems, including single-line diagrams, schematics, wiring layouts, and control systems
• Prepare technical drawings, specifications, and documentation for electrical equipment and systems
• Conduct load calculations, voltage drop analysis, cable sizing, and protective device coordination
• Ensure compliance with relevant codes, standards (e.g., IEC, SANS, NEC), and safety regulations
• Support the selection and specification of electrical components such as switchgear, transformers, cables, and circuit breakers
• Collaborate with mechanical, civil, and instrumentation teams to integrate electrical systems with other disciplines
• Participate in design reviews, hazard and operability studies (HAZOP), and risk assessments
• Provide technical support during construction, commissioning, and handover phases
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, and contractors to resolve design-related queries
• Conduct site inspections and surveys to gather project data and verify design feasibility
• Qualifications
• BTech, B. Eng or BSc (Eng) in Electrical, or Electronic Engineering
• 3-5 years' experience in engineering design or power systems
• Proficiency with electrical design software such as AutoCAD, MicroStation, ETAP,
• Experience with relevant simulation and design software packages would be beneficial (PV*Sol, PV Syst, WaSP, MatLab)
• Strong knowledge of substation equipment, protection schemes, and utility standards
• Proficient in MS Word, MS Projects, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel, MS excel Power query
• Valid Drivers' License and own car
• Detail-oriented and thorough
• Self-starter, ability to work under pressure
• Strong verbal and written communication
  
  

• Participative Leadership
• Planning & Organizing
• Monitoring & Measuring
  
  

• Strategic "big picture" thinking
• Problem Solving
• Critical thinking
  
  

• Assertive
• Methodical
• Drive & Action Oriented
• Flexibility
• Excellence & Quality Orientation

Required Experience : • 5+ years relevant working experience.

We are seeking a hands-on mechanical design engineer to join our team. If you are passionate about mechanical engineering design, committed to quality and safety, and have expertise in design from defining the user need, through the design process up to manufacturing and commissioning of the design, we invite you to apply and contribute to the success of our Air Cooling Unit (ACU) Business Unit. Join us and make a tangible impact!

The ACU business unit focuses on the roll-out of our mobile air cooling units (ACU’s) at mining clients to enable operations in remote underground hotspots. M-Tech Industrial patented this product, is the OEM, and does in field maintenance and service, and our footprint is increasing throughout the platinum and gold mines in South Africa and starting to expand abroad. We are looking for a dynamic individual to assist with the mechanical and system design engineering needs. The successful applicant will be based in Potchefstroom.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Report to and work alongside the ACU business unit manager.
• Apply mechanical and system design process methodically from URS to project implementation, commissioning and commercialisation.
• Designs may include but not limited to:
o Ventilation and cooling demand calculations.
o Refrigeration system design, optimisations, modifications and enhancements (change of refrigerant, change of compressor, change of duty, mechanical component and material changes, etc.)
o System integration of mobile refrigeration unit with mine infrastructure and auxiliary systems.
o Component, materials and instrumentation selection.
o Define maintenance and service requirements, measurements, checks and specifications and train technicians and mine personnel on maintenance and service requirements.
o Develop quality control procedures and checks from manufacturing to commissioning.
o Fault finding as well as failure and root cause analyses.
o Responsible for CAD manufacturing drawings and design documentation and manuals.
o Product modification and enhancement through M-Tech’s Engineering Change process (ECP).
o Need identification and new product design
• Responsible for overseeing commissioning and monitoring to optimise the solution for the customer.
• Patent and design registration where applicable.
• Develop and manage project budget.

Skills and competencies:
• Mechanical design experience where methodical design process is followed to ensure best chance for project success.
• Be just as comfortable in developing the URS, doing mechanical design, setting up manufacturing drawings in CAD all the way to implementing, testing and commissioning designs.
• Willing to work in the mining environment, specifically underground during initial site survey and design implementation and commissioning oversight.
• Team player and effective communicator
• Strong Thermodynamic knowledge
• Strong data analysis skills (must be proficient with MS Excel).
• Strong drawing capability with an interest in hardware and the physical building of equipment.
• Be hands-on and Practical
• Attention to detail

Desired Experience & Qualification
• Qualification – B.Eng Mechanical
• 5+ years relevant working experience.
• Knowledge on Mine health and safety.
• Managerial Experience
• Design, Manufacturing and Draughting experience.
• Refrigeration Experience will be beneficial.
• Previous experience in a mining environment will be beneficial

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We're looking for a design engineer to join us on our mission to give everyone superpowers to build.

About Windsurf

Featured on the Forbes AI 50 list, Windsurf (formerly Codeium) has risen to become a leader in the AI developer tools space in just over a year, giving hundreds of thousands of users around the world code autocomplete, in-editor chat assistants, and more.

Our Windsurf IDE is the first code editor developed around AI flows, allowing developers to seamlessly use AI to develop anything from brand new apps to million line codebases. Our state-of-the-art proprietary language models and custom inference stack allow us to deliver the best experience possible to our users. We've achieved substantial revenue and enterprise traction as proof of the quality and usefulness of our tools.We're one of the fastest growing AI startups, focused on product, revenue, and customer experience. We work hard, and we operate with a high degree of trust, agency, and ownership.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience with frontend technologies such as TypeScript and React. Familiarity with NextJS and TailwindCSS is a plus.
• Strong product instincts and ability to iterate on low, medium, and high fidelity mockups with the team in Figma.
• Strong systems thinking and able to create extensible systems that can adapt to Cascade’s needs and AI’s rapid pace of innovation
• Ability to learn and become an expert quickly in anything design or engineering.
• A team player that communicates well cross-functionally and does the most important thing for the company.
• A self-starter that thrives with agency and is hungry to dream up, plan, design, build, and iterate on AI products independently.
• Passion for AI-powered developer tools like Windsurf, ChatGPT, and and Anthropic.
  
  

• How do we synchronize an agent’s proposed actions with the user’s goals to create flow state?
• How do you balance simplicity and flexibility for a conversational agent?
• How do we design intuitive experiences such as code suggestions and navigations into the code editor to accelerate developer productivity?
• How do you design and build a UI system to surface agent tool calls such as MCP servers?
  
  

• Our best work is done in person. The team goes in 5 days a week into our office in downtown Mountain View, CA (within walking distance of the Caltrain station, accessible from San Francisco).
• We obsess over the customer and the problem. Design engineers work closely with user feedback to deeply understand the problem and to craft the ideal solution that solves the customer needs.
• Design is core to the experience. Design engineers can drive projects with thoughtful UX and reliable implementation end to end. No one knows the product better than the creator and they should drive brainstorming, design, iteration, and user research.
  
  

• Define the experience for users to send context from a browser back to Cascade
• Implement a diff suggestion popup beside the cursor
• Craft an end to end experience for a user to deploy a website using Cascade
• Implement a web scraping tool to enable Cascade to do research and then design the interface to communicate updates on Cascade
• Create intuitive modalities to provide suggestions and predict next actions while a developer is editing code
• Design an agentic conversational interface that’s extensible to new types of context, tools, and content format
• Design and build the toolbar for managing creations from tool calls
• Create human-in-the-loop user experiences for code edits

• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Design Engineer to join our engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and reviewing electrical systems and components in compliance with applicable standards, client specifications, and project requirements. This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative and cost-effective electrical solutions across various projects.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and develop electrical systems, including single-line diagrams, schematics, wiring layouts, and control systems.
• Prepare technical drawings, specifications, and documentation for electrical equipment and systems.
• Conduct load calculations, voltage drop analysis, cable sizing, and protective device coordination.
• Ensure compliance with relevant codes, standards (e.g., IEC, SANS, NEC), and safety regulations.
• Support the selection and specification of electrical components such as switchgear, transformers, cables, and circuit breakers.
• Collaborate with mechanical, civil, and instrumentation teams to integrate electrical systems with other disciplines.
• Participate in design reviews, hazard and operability studies (HAZOP), and risk assessments.
• Provide technical support during construction, commissioning, and handover phases.
• Coordinate with clients, consultants, and contractors to resolve design-related queries.
• Conduct site inspections and surveys to gather project data and verify design feasibility.

• Qualifications
• BTech, B. Eng or BSc (Eng) in Electrical, or Electronic Engineering
• 3-5 years’ experience in engineering design or power systems
• Proficiency with electrical design software such as AutoCAD, MicroStation, ETAP,
• Experience with relevant simulation and design software packages would be beneficial (PV*Sol, PV Syst, WaSP, MatLab).
• Strong knowledge of substation equipment, protection schemes, and utility standards.
• Proficient in MS Word, MS Projects, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel, MS excel Power query.
• Valid Drivers’ License and own car.
• Detail-oriented and thorough.
• Self-starter, ability to work under pressure.
• Strong verbal and written communication.

Competencies and Desired Skills

Leadership Capabilities:

• Participative Leadership
• Planning & Organizing
• Monitoring & Measuring

Cognitive Capabilities:

• Strategic “big picture” thinking
• Problem Solving
• Critical thinking

Interpersonal Capabilities:

• Assertive
• Methodical
• Drive & Action Oriented
• Flexibility
• Excellence & Quality Orientation

Reference: ERD009678-SD-ER-2

Salary: R 60 000 - R 70 000 CTC
My customer in Roodepoort is urgently looking for a Design Engineer specializing in 3D modeling.

• 3D Design
• Mechanical Engineering BSc (Engineering) or Diploma
• Sheet Metal Experience
• Project Management
• Catering Equipment Designing or Similar

R 60 000 - R 70 000 CTC

Consultant: Sergio Davids - Dante Personnel East Rand
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