About the position
Role purpose
End to end management of the MAST Remote Management System (RMS), including site power supply, site power generation, electricity storage and all related solution requirements. This role will lead and realise the Power-as-a Service (PaaS) energy performance and optimisation strategies and techniques. This includes tech-nical solution gap analysis and upgrade solutions, solution optimization and site power integration and mainte-nance planning, ensuring power reliability (site uptime), with a full site power total cost of ownership (profit and loss) responsibility.
Accountabilities Power as a Service (PaaS)
- Analyse and optimise site-specific power strategies based on different customer requirements based on business requirements.
- Support the operations and maintenance partners by identifying clear techniques and strategies to realise the best possible power provision capability per site.
- Align technical and commercial models to minimise total cost impact of network management for MAST, including operational and maintenance requirements delivering a profitable business case.
Thought leader - Manage and collaborate with the Power team and external stakeholders and the operations and maintenance support partners regarding innovative site-specific power design and optimisation solutions.
- Work with suppliers of products in identifying and implementing best of class solutions.
Supplier and contract management
- Develop and design structures to monitor, evaluate and manage supplier solutions, contractors, and 3rd parties' performance against their contracted scope of work, benchmark best practice on the overall solutions. Financial management & reporting
- Responsible for the formulation and management of all power related operational elements relating to the CAPEX and OPEX requirements.
- Lead and realise dashboards to enable management visibility on the site-specific power performance and optimisation requirements.
- Oversee the design reporting to identify technical solutions to drive better financial management and improve profitability on solutions deployed.
Compliance management - Support the MAST preparation for ISO compliance and certification.
- Design solutions to continuously improve the compliance management of MAST and its operations and maintenance partners.
Core competencies, knowledge, and experi-ence
- Deep understanding of existing, new, and emerging Power/Energy technologies.
- Strong technical experience across multiple delivery areas and vendors.
- Technical problem-solving skills, supporting management to be able to navigate through difficult negotiations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to distil complex technical concepts into simple terms, with strong persuasion skills to gain support for principles, standards, and change.
- Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provisioning of effective support and guidance across multiple programmes.
- Proven track record on key outputs and disciplines.
- Proven track record of the ability to apply technical knowledge in the analyses of accurate comparisons and reviews of various solution designs and the development of realistic return on investment operational financial models.
Must have technical /professional qualifications
- Grade 12 is essential.
- Possessing a 3-year related electrical qualification, such as a diploma or bachelor's degree, registered as a master electrician with the department of labour.
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on working experience within the telecommunications sector, with essential working knowledge of multitenant site power operations.
- Preference will be given to candidates with experience, preferably within a research and development team, able to design, evaluate and implement different power solutions.
Key performance indicators: - A fully functional end-to-end power system delivering fully optimized results, measured by the RMS.
- An optimized Power P&L, meeting/exceeding set and agreed targets.
- Related quality, accurate reporting.
- OEM/Supplier/Vendor management.
Budget owned: Yes
Direct reports: Yes
Dotted reports: Yes
Risks:
Desired Skills:
- Power and Energy technology knowledge
- Remote Management Systems
- Technical solutions
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