About the position
Operation & Maintenance Company is looking for the following personnel to join their team:
The core purpose of this position is to provide effective management of a 75 MW and a 50 MW PV Plants to ensure all operational objectives are met.
Daily activities will include but not limited to the following:
- Maintain a good understanding of daily operational issues.
- Assist in coordinating tasks according to priorities and plans.
- Problem analysis: evaluate the problems that arises in the photovoltaic system, undertake a technical investigation, provide and implement a technically sound solution to the problem as required.
- Guarantee all safety precautions and quality standards are met accordingly.
- Supervision and issuing of the work permit to the co-workers and/or subcontractors and ensure that co-workers and/or contractors comply with work specifications.
- Sets objectives for the maintenance team; manages site personnel performance based on assigned duties and maintains a record of their performance through regular, formal evaluations; and makes recommendations.
- Ensure that employee policies and procedures are followed by all sites' personnel; ensure that the manuals have been distributed to all employees and that the policies outlined within are reasonably understood by all staff members
- Ensure fair implementation of complaint procedures. Administers appropriate disciplinary action in a fair and consistent manner, supported by clear, concise thorough documentation of events and actions resulting in the need for discipline.
- Oversee training to enhance site employees' technical knowledge in the safe operation and maintenance of the facility and its capital equipment as well as employee professional development.
- Strive to ensure that plant perform at full capacity and efficiency.
- Undertake to housekeeping, care of tools, materials, equipment, spare parts and in general all the elements of the plant.
- Carry out legal and safe instructions issued by the Plant Manager to perform usual and additional duties complying with health and safety procedures for each task and area of work.
- Enforce safety to the co-workers and subcontractors on site.
- Active participation in troubleshooting (Fault-finding) or root cause analysis timeously when required.
- Ensure that all notifications and report submission relating to the incidents and performance of the facility are submitted timeously.
- Maintain good work relations with the client's representatives and other stakeholders.
- Oversee and assume responsibility for overall operations of the facility at the absence of the plant manager.
Skills/qualifications
- At least Tertiary qualification such as Diploma , Red Seal , Degree in electrical qualifications
- At least 10 years working of which 5 years' experience in Operation & Maintenance in power generation plants or Electrical Substations.
- At least 8 years' experience as a Supervisor, Team Leader or Plant management
- Valid certificate as well as a good understanding of High Voltage Regulations
- Excellent skills in Electrical Substations (knowledge of relay protections, HV breaker, HV transformers, HV switchgears, restart substations after breaker trips)
- Experience in switching LV, MV and HV systems. Backed by POE (portfolio of evidence)
- High computer literacy and a proficiency in MS Office
- Experience with lock-out, tag out procedures.
- Ability to read electrical drawings.
- Solid understanding of SCADA system.
- Solid understanding of the power system protection.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Thorough understanding of and the ability to repair and troubleshoot equipment used at the power plant.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Valid Driver's license.
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