Senior Dicipline Electrical Engineer at Egbin Power Plc

Key Duties and Responsibilities

The primary role of a Senior Discipline Electrical Engineer is to assist the SME (Electrical) in providing high-level expertise and professional advice on the design, construction, installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance and end-of-useful-life decision-making of all electrical assets; necessary to maximize overall asset performance, in a safe, profitable and sustainable manner.

The job holder will assist the SME (Electrical) to ensure that all risks associated with the design and operation of electrical assets are identified and permanently maintained at an accepted level, in compliance with the Asset Management Philosophy and Strategy Document for 1.32GW Egbin Power Plant, HSE and relevant referential documents.

The responsibilities include three major areas:

• Engineering Standards
• Plant Integrity
• Technical Assurance

Engineering Standards

• Participate in the development of engineering standards for all electrical equipment 
• Participate in ensuring that company engineering standards for electrical assets satisfy the minimum requirements of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) and other regulatory/statutory agencies
• Participate in continuously updating company engineering standards (electrical category) to adapt to changes in the operating environment and industry and global best practices
• Participate in developing and implementing the framework for the incorporation of new energy in the business such as digitalization and decarbonization

Plant Integrity

• Assist in identifying all Critical Equipment (electrical assets), based on guidelines from the Head, Technical Solutions & Standards, Risk Management, Plant Integrity & Technical Assurance. 
• Assist in verifying that the Critical Equipment Register (CER) is in place and updated.
• Participate to ensure that equipment criticality set in the various risk-based processes (RBI, RCM, CE Register) is updated.
• Assist in the development of the Asset Integrity Framework for Egbin Power Plc.
• Participate to develop planned Preventive Maintenance (PMs) for all electrical assets
• Participate in developing a framework for the deployment of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) for electrical assets

Technical Assurance

• Participate in conducting risk assessments (electrical category) associated with anomalies and incidents. Advise on integrity threats.
• Participate in contribute to the establishment of long-term strategic planning and short-term operational planning especially for electrical assets 
• Participate in meetings and update meeting action log. Ensure that during AIRT meetings, criticality ratings and priorities for electrical assets allocated to the various integrity issues and their resolution are updated, recovery plans are in place and progressed, and discipline indicators and integrity KPIs are updated.
• Assist in developing executive review for electrical assets, of the affiliate performance on Integrity, focusing on high-level KPIs, major threats and critical action plans. Advise on trends.
• Establish or actively contribute to the establishment of (a) management system(s) that verifies that key asset processes are properly implemented, anomalies recorded and ranked as per their criticality, and remedial measures are progressed until closure, thus providing a positive assurance of integrity.
• Contribute to the establishment of a Management of Change (MoC) process and follow up action plans until change approval
• In close liaison with other SMEs, establish the key measures and indicators that will allow monitoring integrity performance continuously, aligned with the guidelines set. 
• Participate in Incident Investigations as may be required
• Monitor the performance of the Asset Integrity management processes by organizing regular reviews and self-audits. These audits shall be based on pre-established protocols being part of the Asset Integrity Verification Process (AIVP).
• Participate in RBI reviews
• Participate in the preparation of Capital and Operating budgets for Inspection.
• Monitor and oversee the execution of overhauls, major repairs, Capital Asset Replacements (CAR), inspection programs and activities.
• Witness and participate in all statutory inspections
• Ensure that Critical Tasks related to Asset Integrity-Process Safety Management (AI-PSM) are undertaken and executed.
• Perform root cause analysis and failure investigation on systems and equipment, as required 
• Assist in the coordination of major shutdowns and turn-around activities.

Data Privacy & Protection:

• Implement data protection policies and practices of Egbin Power Plc.
• Ensure compliance with the NDPR and other data protection laws, and data protection policies.
• Undertake Data Protection Impact Assessment as applicable to curb the risk during data processing operations.

QHSE:

• Ensure awareness, understanding and application of QHSE policy and application of departmental objectives
• Ensure awareness of the Integrated Management System (ISO 9001:2015, 14001:2015 &45001:2018) and the implications of not conforming with the requirements.
• Understand and identify hazards, risks, environmental aspects and Impacts as it is related to their jobs

Education and Competencies

Requirements: 

The minimum requirements for the role are:

Core Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering
• Minimum of 10 years experience in a large-scale (public) power plant or direct OEM experience, at least two of which must have been spent in engineering design.
• Knowledge in the design of HV & LV generators, power transformers, HV & LV switchgear, HV & LV motors, earthing and lighting equipment and building electrical services. Experience in the operation and maintenance of these equipment groups will be an added advantage
• Knowledge of the application of international electrical engineering codes and standards
• Membership in cognate professional associations such as IEEE, IET, etc. will be an added advantage. 
• Knowledge in at least three of the following areas: Maintenance, Operation, Design Engineering, Asset Integrity, Technical Assurance, and Quality Management.

Language skills

• Fluent in the English language

Soft Skills

• Computer knowledge
• Conversant with usual business suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)