Job Description
Location: Lafia, Nasarawa (with 20% in HO, Abuja)
Role Summary
- This is a great opportunity to be part of a growing business, take ownership and be responsible for giving service to 8+ plants.
- In this role you will be responsible for all plant Operations and Maintenance for these plants and report to the O&M Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily Monitoring of HMGs at Meters and System Portal.
- Ensure smooth operation of plants and meters.
- Initiate tickets to OEMs and follow up for early rectification.
- Maintain event log at HMG plants
- Health Checkup and Maintenance of Plants.
- Train site electricians on operations and maintenance of system.
- Resolve Customer issues as per Standard of Operations.
Plant Operations:
- Play a key role as a member of the Mini Grids O&M team to plan and monitor the day to day running of the plants to ensure smooth progress.
- Understand and manage sites’ performance to key performance metrics.
Asset Management:
- Ensures completion of technical documents; grid outages, onsite equipment problems, log entries, site visitation; safety and environmental inspections.
- Maintain daily, weekly, monthly and yearly equipment healthiness checklist; Preventive maintenance planning; Shutdown planning; Daily reading logbook etc.
Great Career Progression Opportunity:
- Successful Service Engineer have the potential to progress to an Area Service Manager and a Senior Management role with greater responsibility and compensation within 36-48 months.
Qualifications
Does this sound like you?
- You have a technical background with an understanding of electrical engineering (minimum education requirement: Diploma in Engineering)
- You have 5+ years of experience (Infrastructure and Telecom industries preferred)
- You have 2+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ people
- You have a track record of resilience and leadership in periods of uncertainty and volatility
- You have a learning mindset and are keen to deliver hands-on solutions in the field
- You build great relationships and are a strong verbal communicator (English & Hausa preferably)
- You are a problem solver and can identify electricity-related faults and proffer solutions swiftly.
- You can also ideally execute based on direct instruction and under guidance from other members of the team.
- You have no issues working in (and living around) rural Nigeria and in a fast-paced, dynamic start up environment.
Also;
- You are driven to support the delivery of business growth in a new market.
- You are an effective planner and have a strong orientation to process
- You building strong relationship built on trust, and are a strong verbal communicator
- Most importantly, candidate must fit company spirit where people work smart, play hard, have fun and are dedicated to success.