Fresh Job Vacancies at The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC Plc)

Job Description

• The Regional Manager Directs, Leads and Manages the administration, and operation of the business within assigned region, by adhering to agreed processes, rules and regulations, in order to meet the Company’s business objectives.
• Achieves business targets, minimizes technical and commercial losses, and reduces old debts in the respective area.
• Is responsible for energy accounting, billed energy (kWh) and collected funds (Naira) for all electricity that is available for sale.

Responsibilities
The regional Managers responsibilities cuts across the following areas namely.
Commercial:

• Responsible for energy available for sale and increase of operational efficiency.
• Identify and implement strategies and procedures for reducing the estimated energy and uncollected revenues, including but not limited to reducing energy theft, increase billing, collection growth and debt collection.
• Routine visits within the assigned Region spending considerable time assessing needs, reviewing objectives, developing action plans, exercising operational oversight and performance management.
• Define and develop territory, vertical, and outreach strategies.

Technical:

• Direct Provide effective direction and leadership for technical services in the region.
• Direct and manage the maintenance and, repairs of faulty network elements such as injection substations and lines.
• Direct and manage high tension lines and Operations Line tracing.
• Direct and manage Specialised Equipment Storage use to ensure longevity.
• Lead and direct the process of Load balance Management.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Overall responsibility for the implementation of the corporate safety vision and strategy for a particular region.
• Lead the promotion of a “Safety Above All” culture in the Region.
• Ensure that safety initiatives are consistently administered in compliance with AEDC policies and government regulations.
• Leads or participates in Regional safety forums and groups as appropriate.

Human Resources:

• Provide coaching and mentoring to staff via formal and informal feedback sessions to accelerate their professional development and improve their leadership potential.
• Build and lead a team of professionals, while creating a fun, hard¬working, and results-¬oriented environment.
• Lead and exemplify the zero tolerance to corruption and other unethical practices in the Region, being the preferred initiator of investigations into such practices before escalating to the HQ.

Financial Services:

• Agree annual budgets and produce a detailed annual business operating plan.
• Deliver monthly, quarterly or annual targets for revenue, profits and cash.
• Produce business performance reports, which could be on a monthly or quarterly basis.
• Oversees the fiscal activities of the Region including budgeting, reporting and audit.
• Manage regional budget and lead staff to achieve regional performance targets.
• Manage operational business expenses within region.

Public Relations:

• Facilitate the integration of AEDC into the fabric of the community by using effective marketing and communications activities.
• Act as an advocate, within the public and private sectors, for issues relevant to AEDC, its services and constituencies.
• Listen to clients, and the community in order to improve services and generate community involvement. Assures community awareness of AEDC’s response to community needs.

Qualifications

• A relevant university Degree in Social Sciences, Engineering and relevant professional qualification.
• 10 years of combined experience in operation, maintenance and distribution with a minimum of five (5) years related supervisory experience.
• Able to see the big picture and plan out details.
• Previous Operation Management experience.
• Knowledge of financial and management accounts.
• Knowledge and understanding of Electricity Distribution market.
• The successful candidate will be able to influence at a senior management level.
• Ideally the candidate will have strong management experience and strong business acumen.

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Job Description

• Supports the Team Lead metering to grow the collectable revenue base of AED Plc

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other divisions to maximise revenues and customer satisfactions.
• Supervising effective meter reading and recording of accurate reading for realistic billing efficiency.
• Ensure Effective and Timely distribution of bills to customers.
• Close Monitoring of PPMs to ensure by-pass is promptly reported and reduced to barest minimum.
• Effective monitoring of marketing activities to ensure new customers are properly captured via CRMD & CAAD and placed on correct tariff to reduce ATC&C losses.
• Embark on aggressive cash drive through disconnection of customers for non-payment, by- pass and illegal connections to reduce ATC&C losses.
• Closely monitor metering activities of both MD and non MD customers ensuring prompt and accurate migration to PPM to reduce ATC&C losses.

Educational Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
• At least 10 years working experience.
• Experience in the power sector will be added advantage.
• Demonstrable understanding of strategies for revenue generation.
• Demonstrable experience in debt recovery management
• Computer Literacy.
• Understanding of customer relationship management processes and applications.

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Job Description

• Responsible for overseeing the business operations of the company in the assigned area; crafting and implementing strategies for revenue growth, operations management and team development. Achieving business targets, reducing technical and commercial losses in the respective area.
• Is responsible for the billed energy (kWh) and collected funds (Naira) for all electricity that is available for sale Representing AEDC within the wider community.

Responsibilities
Sales, Profitability and gross margin growth:

• Formulate strategies and action plans to maximize electricity sales in the assigned area.
• Actively manage a growing team and track individual performance within the Sales Team in the Area Office.
• Analyze and leverage data to develop and implement strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Area operations.
• Direct, manage and coach Area sales representatives’ tactical activities to achieve revenue goals.
• Translate regional business plan into individual goals for the area office team.
• Review Area performance against targets, objectives and KPIs and enhance performance.
• Manages and organizes the work in the area of his responsibility, plans, supervises and directs all activities in the area.
• Implements and enforces disconnections of non-paying customers.
• Responsible for Energy available for sale.
• Identify and implement strategies and procedures for reducing the estimated energy and uncollected revenues, including but not limited to reducing energy theft, increase billing, collection growth and debt collection.

Health, Safety & Environment:

• Lead the promotion of a “Safety Above All” culture in the Area.
• Support the project Safety Plan through personal involvement in all aspects of safety, including training and attention to the adherence to safety requirements pertaining to particular trades or skills.
• Ensure that safety initiatives are consistently administered in compliance with AEDC policies and government regulations.

Human Resources:

• Working with the regional HR team.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to staff via formal and informal feedback sessions to accelerate their professional development and improve their leadership potential.
• Build and lead a team of professionals, while creating a fun, hard¬working, and results-¬oriented environment.

Community Relations:

• Facilitates the integration of AEDC into the fabric of the community by using effective marketing and communications activities.
• Acts as an advocate, within the public and private sectors, for issues relevant to AEDC, its services and constituencies.
• Listens to clients, and the community in order to improve services and generate community involvement. Assures community awareness of AEDC’s response to community needs.

Financial Services:

• Participates in the yearly Budget Forecast development, monthly operating review meetings and is otherwise responsible for setting and meeting the financial performance goals of the Area office.
• Agreeing annual budgets and producing a detailed annual business operating plan.
• May have to deliver as well as monthly, quarterly or annual targets for revenue, profits and cash.
• Produce business performance reports, which could be on a monthly or quarterly basis.

Technical Services Support:

• Reviews maintenance plans, planned work orders, and other facility repair activities for completeness, proper method, quality of accomplishment, and availability of materials both before and after work.

Customer Service Delivery:

• Work with customer service, marketing and technical operations teams to maintain a customer-focused attitude with a focus on activities that create lifetime customers.
• Lead the resolution of customer complaints captured in the CRM tool or through the customer care teams within agreed timelines ensuring feedback is sent to all stakeholders within 24hours.

Qualifications

• A relevant university degree (Social Sciences, Engineering) and relevant professional qualification.
• Minimum 8 years’ work experience.
• Experience in the power sector will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrable understanding of business management strategies and operations.
• Decision-making and teamwork skills.
• Experience of managing the delivery of a service.
• Experience of establishing and improving processes.
• Experience of managing others.
• Highly motivated and entrepreneurial professional.

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Job Description
Supports the Area manager in managing all technical functions that relate to power supply issues and operational safety to ensure smooth running of the technical operations of the Area and Regional offices to foster organizational efficiency, decrease of asset damage, reduction of technical and commercial losses, disconnections and sealing of meter points.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinates distribution returns
• Coordinates operational switching.
• Monitors the enforcement of safety rules.
• Coordinates load management.
• Coordinates and plans all area and regional maintenance jobs.
• Supervise network reinforcement.
• Arranges and is accountable for improvement of network performance, maintenance energy facilities of 0.4 kV and 11 kV levels.
• Responsible for and arranges the work of sealing unsealed meters, in cooperation with other departments.
• Engaged in coding and ordering customers according to 33 and 11 kV feeders, 33/0.4 and 11/0.4 kV substations.

Educational Qualification

• Minimum of first degree in Engineering or related courses.
• Minimum of 8 years working experience.
• Cognate experience in the Power / technical Sector will be added advantage.
• Project Management skills.
• Computer literate.

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Job Description

• Supports the Team Lead metering to grow the collectable revenue base of AED Plc. Performs accurate meter readings, bill distribution in time and effective disconnection of customers or group of customers within the time limit in order to meet individual and collective goals.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Prepare schedules for meter reading and submission of data to Computers Centres for billing.
• Perform accurate reading in certain measuring points for the territory and concerned consumers, including data on the state of customer measurement point.
• Perform all activities that have to do with control and advancement of metering point.
• Identification of illegal consumers who are connected to the network and disconnecting them.
• React according to regulations in the event of any theft or irregularity in the field.
• If necessary, engages in the team for measurement control of the consumer, to accept new connection or to change metering point to the consumer.
• Preparation of disconnection reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• Minimum of 2 years working experience.
• Computer literate.
• Customer Service orientation, formal training will be an added advantages.