VAC-2025-0045: Metering & Protection Engineer

Application Closing Date: January 5, 2026

Grade: CEC6

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Kitwe

This role is responsible for designing, installing, testing, commissioning, and maintaining various metering and control equipment, such as metering schemes, monitoring devices, alarm schemes, and instruments, to ensure the efficiency and reliability of the power network.

The position will report to the Senior Engineer - Metering.

Key Accountabilities

• Carry out the design, installation, and commissioning of metering and control schemes to optimise the operation of the power system configuration.
• Provide specifications for capital projects.
• Adjudicate tenders, witness factory acceptance tests, and supervise installation and commissioning and site acceptance testing of turnkey and CEC-initiated projects.
• Plan and implement efficient and effective system equipment maintenance programmes.
• Facilitate rapid fault investigations and quick restoration of services to sustain revenue collection systems.
• Carry out engineering studies to ensure correct operation of metering devices on the power system to prevent adverse loss of revenue and damage to equipment and other installations as well as prevent loss of life.
• Calculate metering settings for metering and power quality devices.
• Carry out modifications and alterations to metering installations to adapt them to new technologies and operating requirements.
• Ensure that all drawings associated with such modifications are updated.
• Investigate system failures and institute corrective and preventive measures to avoid recurrence of similar incidents.
• Ensure that all Company resources under the section are used solely for Company purposes to avoid misuse of assets.
• Provide in-house training to departmental staff to ensure appreciation and competence in the use of test equipment and application of modern technology devices on the power system.
• Control labour and operating budget expenditure by ensuring that limits for the section, individual employees, and self are adhered to.
• Adhere to Company Health, Safety, Environment and Social (HSES) policy and ensure compliance with all domestic and statutory regulations for personal safety and prevention of damage to company equipment and assets.

To be successful in this role, you will be required to have:

• BEng in Electrical or Electronics Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Member of Engineering Institution of Zambia (EIZ).
• Three years of relevant practical experience.
• Understanding of power systems.
• Understanding of engineering drawings.
• Computing skills, oral/written communication skills.
• Appreciation of IEC61850 protocol and engineering.

Applications

If you have the relevant skills and experience, please click the ‘Apply Here’ button below and complete the online job application. Hard copy applications will not be accepted at this stage.

CEC is an equal opportunity employer; therefore, it is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in its staff. The closing date for receipt of applications is January 5, 2026.

Applicants are requested to provide daytime contact numbers and accessible email addresses. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.