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Job Description
Husk is seeking a Service Engineer who will be responsible for all plant Operations and Maintenance for these plants and report to the Operations and Maintenance Manager. The individual must have a measure of technical competency with an understanding of electrical engineering, ensuring safety and environmental inspections and preventive maintenance within Husk Power Plants.
Responsibilities
General
- 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 Check-up and Maintenance of Plants.
- Train site electricians on the operation and maintenance of the system.
- Resolve Customer issues as per SOP.
- Ensure New Customer Connections on time as per SOP.
- Monitor and control the Diesel consumption of Generators.
- Spares planning & avoid shortage of spares & consumables.
- Diesel Engine Overhauling, maintenance, repairs, and troubleshooting of Mechanical & and electrical problems.
Plant Operations
- Play a key role as a member of the Mini-Grids Operations and Maintenance 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; and 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 Engineers 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
Required Skills & Attributes
- 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 learning mindset and are keen to deliver hands-on solutions in the field.
- You are a problem solver and can identify issues and possible 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.
Location: Lafia, Nigeria.
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