Service Engineer at Husk Power Systems Nigeria Limited

Husk is one of the world’s leading rural energy providers. We provide low-cost and reliable power to rural households and businesses, entirely from renewable energy sources. Powering economic possibilities in every village is at the heart of everything we do.

We design, build and operate the lowest cost hybrid (solar and biomass) power plant and distribution network in India and Africa. To date, Husk has provided electricity to over 15,000 homes and business, reducing 95,000 tonnes of CO2. Our aim is to provide 30MW of power to 225,000 customers by 2025, and save 350,000 tonnes of CO2 each year.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Service Engineer

Location: Plateau or Nasarawa (based on placement)
Employment Type: Full-time
Division / Function:  Operations & Maintenance
Reports to: Operations Manager

Role Summary

• Husk is seeking a Service Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring optimal and safe operation of the generation, transmission and distribution equipment (including within customer premises) with an understanding of electrical engineering, ensuring safety and environmental inspections and preventive maintenance within Husk Power Plants. 
• This position provides the opportunity to join a growing team that is changing the face of rural electrification in Nigeria and India. 

Key Responsibilities
General:

• Daily Monitoring of HMGs at Meters and System Portal.
• The Service engineer must ensure maximum power quality, power availability and power reliability of the plant and ensure efficient functioning of all connections at the customer premises
• The Service engineer will take all preventative and corrective maintenance on the plant whilst making sure all HSE procedures are followed.
• Initiate tickets to OEMs and follow up for early rectification.
• Maintain event log at HMG plants.
• Health Check-up and Maintenance of Plants.
• Train site electricians on the operation and maintenance of the system. 
• Working closely with the customer teams to provide high quality service to the customers
• Ensure New Customer Connections on time as per SOP.
• Monitor and control the Diesel consumption of Generators.
• Spares planning & avoid shortage of spares & consumables.
• Diesel Engine Overhauling, maintenance, repairs, and troubleshooting of Mechanical & and electrical problems.
• Pursuing opportunities to develop skills and capacity is encouraged

Plant Operations:

• Play a key role as a member of the Mini-Grids Operations and Maintenance 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; and 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 Engineers 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
Required Skills & Attributes:

• You have a technical background with an understanding of electrical engineering (minimum education requirement: Diploma in Engineering)
• You have 5+ years of experience (Infrastructure and Solar/Telecom industries preferred)
• You have 2+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ people.
• You have a learning mindset and are keen to deliver hands-on solutions in the field.
• You are a problem solver and can identify issues and possible 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.

Salary
Negotiable based on experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• This description indicates the general nature and level of the qualifications and duties required of employees in this job classification, as well as the essential functions a person must be able to perform to do this job. 
• It is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
• Husk Power Energy Systems Nigeria Limited is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. 
• We hire without consideration of race, colour, religion, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, or any other basis protected by law.