Electrical Engineer at Corporate Staffing

Our Client is Africa’s largest urban land developer with over 30,000 acres of visionary projects in the growth trajectories of large cities in East, West and Central Africa. They seek to hire an Electrical Engineer to oversee and administer all the technical and day-to-day operational functions

Job Responsibilities

• Supervise the daily activities relating to supply of power, water, telecom services and functioning of the integrated technical department in carrying out the required operational tasks for each of the utilities
• assist and support the investigation of faults and complaints in reference to the utility services, monitor compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Liaise with the KPLC and the local contractor’s engineers in coordination to complete the overall design for the electricity supply and implementation on Site.
• responsible for ensuring the integrated multi-utility department expenditures are within the limitation of project budgets for CAPEX expansion and the annual budget for O&M activities
• supervise expenditures and the preparation of bid requests as needed.
• Develop, implement and manage utility infrastructure and manage future CAPEX improvement and expansion projects.
• update on the status and result of departmental operations and CAPEX improvement projects
• represent the multi-utility technical and operations department at meetings with other departmental units and support front office functions when needed to deal with complaints and other issues with end users and owners associations.
• Analyze financial, technical and billing data and identify issues and opportunities; support and reinforce front office efforts for credit collections.
• Monitor and oversee internal quality standards are met for the operational deliverables of telecom, power, water and maintenance services
• oversees each sub-departmental activity in the selection, training and development of personnel; assists in the evaluation of the multi-utility departments performance and recommend any appropriate changes
• perform annual evaluations as per assigned KPI’s and policies established at the company
• Effectively implement and ensure enforcement of the company’s multi-utility policies and procedures; assists in meeting short and long term plans for the utility and means of accomplishing these goals.
• Conform with and abide by all written and non-written regulations, policies, work procedures and instructions; ensures conformance and conforms to all safety rules and ensures use of all appropriate safety equipment.

Qualifications

• A degree in Electrical engineering or related
• Minimum of 7 – 10 years’ experience managing or working in a multi utility setup or multi utility infrastructure and technology deployment environment
• Job related experience is required (transmission, distribution protection and compensation of electrical energy).
• Proven track record of managing site during construction of electrical installations Must have an engineering background of dealing with electrical and telecom infrastructure projects, with basic understanding of water infrastructure and recycling technology.
• Ability to work in a startup environment.
• Mix of experience in design engineering and project management.