Vacancy title:
Senior Protection and Communication Engineer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Science & Engineering,Installation, Maintenance & Repair]

Jobs at:
Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL)

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, November 21 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 10 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Reports to      : Manager Protection and Communication Services

Supervises     : Protection and Communication Engineer

No of Supervisees: 4 staff

Department  : Engineering

Duty Station  : Duty Area

Job Purpose

To ensure safety for network plant / equipment and lives on occurrence of power system faults / abnormalities and on operation of apparatus; by designing and supervising the implementation and maintenance of effective protection schemes, local / remote apparatus controls and voltage regulation systems on the network.  

Impact: The Protection and Communication Engineer designs and supervises the installation of the safety of the equipment to ensure the lives of the teams in the organization are protected.  The Engineer also ensures that the maintenance of the protection schemes is up to date.

Key Result Areas

1. Design new schemes or modifications to existing protection, control and voltage regulation schemes.
2. Responsible for Scheme implementation, commissioning and evaluation
3. Operate and Maintain protection schemes
4. Responsible for the effective management and implementation of the performance management system
5. Perform all administrative related duties pertaining to standards, works orders and legal requirements
6. Specify and evaluate the Procurement of special tools and equipment required for network protection practice and ensure effective maintenance of these tools
7. Responsible for Health, Safety and Environment Management
8. Provides information that is crucial to other sections’ processes e.g. Planning, primary plant, Projects, systems control, and the distribution team
9. Receives information from other sections useful in making effective protection designs.

Expected Output

1. Design the Protection, Control and Voltage regulation schemes
2. Periodic maintenance of protection, control and voltage regulation equipment according to equipment manuals
3. Supervise the repair of the protection, control and voltage regulation equipment
4. Ensure the Health, Safety and Environment procedures are designed and adhered to
5. Records of activities pertaining to standards, works orders and legal requirements.

Person Specifications

Minimum Academic Qualifications

• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering or Bachelor of Power Systems Engineering. 
• Post qualifications and certification in protection of electrical systems is desired, but not required.
• Member of UIPE, ERB

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in power system protection for at least MV distribution networks.
• Competencies
• In depth knowledge and understanding of Power system protection technology, with technical skills.
• Accredited to intermediate level on protection equipment.
• Innovative thinking skills.
• Curiosity / Information Seeking
• Valid driver license.
• Ability to integrate effectively with other specialist disciplines.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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