Job Description

Job Title / Role: Technical Intern

Organization: SiemensSmart Infrastructure

Location: Siemens South Africa

Reporting Manager: Project Management Manager

The Business

Siemens Smart Infrastructure combines the real and digital worlds across energy systems, buildings, and industries, enhancing the way people live and work and significantly improving efficiency and sustainability. We work together with customers and partners to create an ecosystem that both intuitively responds to the needs of people and helps customers achieve their business goals. It helps our customers to thrive, communities to progress and supports sustainable development to protect our planet for the next generation.

Mission/Function of the role:

Are you an inspired graduate looking for a challenging career start in the Electrical Engineering discipline? Siemens is a place that provides you with a challenging and inclusive environment to help make a difference globally.

Siemens understands that the young talents are the future, hence we do our best to recruit, select, develop, place, and retain young talent by providing the best working and learning environment that allows us to write the future together.

The interns will participate in manufacturing and testing of the Duvha MV switchgears. They will also assist senior technicians in planning and conduction the customer’s FAT and SAT, ensure that the targets and customer satisfaction are always met. The interns must be willing to travel to customer’s sites and must be willing to work additional hours to speed up the work when required.

Responsibilities and Roles

• Learn how to read electrical diagrams.
• Learn how to use hand tools.
• Install and repairs electrical components and wiring.
• Components labelling.
• Perform design verifications in accordance to the engineering designs.
• Test electrical components for proper functionality.
• Address all defects and keep records.
• Learn basic QMS and control of records.
• Advise the project team of potential quality problems and propose solutions.
• Inspect the work done in accordance with the specifications.
• Witness tests and complete all relevant check sheets.
• Ensure proper housekeeping is followed and maintained at all times.
• Report all incidents to the Supervisor/Project Manager/ SHEQ Manager.

Required Skills/abilities

• 
  Problem solving skills.
• Basic knowledge of electrical systems and wiring.
• Good at team work.

Experience and Educational Qualifications

National Diploma Electrical Engineering

0-1 Years Working Experience in Electrical Engineer

Our culture:

Our culture embraces different perspectives, open debate, and the will to challenge convention. Change is a constant aspect of our work. We aspire to lead the change in our industry rather than just react to it. That’s why we invite you to take on new challenges, test your ideas, and celebrate success.

The company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets under the Employment Equity Act will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

We care about your data privacy and take compliance with the POPI Act, GDPR as well as other data protection legislation seriously. For this reason, we ask you not to send us your CV or resume by email. We ask instead that you create a profile in our talent community where you can upload your CV. Setting up a profile lets us know you are interested in career opportunities with us and makes it easy for us to send you an alert when relevant positions become open