Service Engineer at Husk

Role Summary

• In this role you will be responsible for all plant Operations and Maintenance for these plants and report to the O&M Manager.

Location of Job: Lafia (with 20% in HO, Abuja)

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.
• Ensure Customer connections as per guidelines and regulations.

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 Electrical Engineering)
• You have 5+ years of experience (Infrastructure and Telecom industries preferred) and are solutions driven
• You have 2+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ people and are hands-on while being able to take initiative to quickly resolve issues.
• 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.

Additional Information

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.