Technical Risk Manager at Egbin Power Plc (Sahara Group)

Location: Ikorodu, Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Purpose Statement

• Oversee and coordinate various risk assessment programmes that cover the technical areas of the business such as engineering and operational risk assessment in a Power Plant
• Conduct technical risk investigation and implement avoidance strategies
• Deploy risk mitigation strategies that reduce incidents and breakdowns by taking into account of exposure to risk
• Provide comprehensive and up-to-date technical guidance on power generation risk issues.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Highlight major operating risk issues that might evolve from the purchase of a new plant equipment or modification of an existing plant equipment
• Safeguarding the earning capability of the plant and asset by highlighting the potential impacts to the plant performance.
• Perform independent research review, studies and analysis in support of risk management projects and programme.
• Use risk management tools and processes, to conduct engineering risk evaluation of existing infrastructure
• Assess the risk of core damage and/or loss of primary containment integrity resulting from equipment failures, human errors and/or phenomenon such as flooding, fires and other environmental impacts.
• Conduct analysis such as process risk mitigation, new technology adoption, and human factors
• Develop and drive a comprehensive technical risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related safety risks that could adversely impact personnel, or plant operations.
• Highlight possible engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other equipment problems relating to capacity, quality, safety, or regulatory compliance that adversely affects operations.
• Develop and maintain repository of Technical risk assessment to support risk management planning and strategic decision making.
• Develop and assess the impact of the technical human capital risk such as (knowledge of plant, man power risk, training gap risk) and implement the process for regular status reviews.
• Assist in performing Probabilistic Cost & Schedule Risk Analysis- Build simplified project schedule model, map the Technical, Economic, Commercial, Organisational and Political (TECOP) parameters and Opportunity/Risk Register entries to the model elements, and quantify these impacts into duration/ cost ranges
• Assess and establish appropriate probability distributions for each element, analyse and iterate the model output and develop overview presentation material to explain the results and key schedule risk areas.
• Develop overview reports of risk/opportunity status for management, implement and manage risk management plans utilizing Company’s risk management standards
• Present technical risk management status to management & generate monthly technical risk management reports
• Support Maintenance Planning in the development and enhancement of preventive and predictive maintenance procedures and review maintenance procedures and review of maintenance work order history and reoccurring trends.
• Interface with top management to discuss and challenge technical risk status and close out references.
• Interpret and explain Cost Schedule & Risk Analysis output to management and Review teams.

Education and Work Experience

• Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Risk Management Professional or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 8 years industry experience as an Engineering Risk Management Professional for an industrial plant
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills.
• Experience facilitating risk and carrying out technical risk assessment
• Project experience with engineering, constructions and/or commissioning activities from major Plant Project
• Fully versed with Project Risk Tools, i.e. EasyRisk, Primavera Risk Analysis.

Required Competencies:

• In-depth knowledge of the entire generation process from fuel management to grid management
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the potential technical risks that might impact the plant performance
• In-depth knowledge of an industrial plant operation.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to pay attention to details
• Good relationship management skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites.