Electrical Engineer - Steam Field at Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC, KenGen

Job Summary

• Reporting to the Principal Engineer - Steam field

Job Description
 Duties and responsibilities

• Planning and carrying out scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance on electrical equipment.
• Identifying calibration needs of all electrical monitoring and testing equipment.
• Preparing and submitting technical reports.
• Ensuring station housekeeping to set standards.
• Installing, testing and commissioning new or refurbished plant equipment and systems.
• Planning and carrying out regular safety inspections; raising notifications, creating.
• Confirming and completing work orders in the plant maintenance management system.
• Raising purchase requests in the plant maintenance management system.
• Managing costs to ensure optimal operations; interpreting, modify or come up with technical drawings as per work requirement.
• Designing and reviewing drawings for new or refurbished systems.
• Maintaining test equipment inventory for plant and auxiliaries.
• Preparing technical specifications and estimates for tendering process.
• Verifying new machine spare parts; witnessing factory acceptance testing for equipment and systems as required; conducting routine checks and observation of plant
• Adhering to the PPA requirements and ensure the set targets are attained.
• Ensuring availability of electrical and instrumentation spares, working tools and equipment.
• Complying with relevant ISO standards; monitoring the systems performance introducing changes and propose improvement and modification as necessary.
• Monitoring projects to meet defined specifications.
• Carrying out diagnostics and troubleshooting of faults of the plant and auxiliaries.
• Maintaining plant drawings and documentation in good order.

 Person Specifications

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: -

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• At least 1 year relevant work expereince.
• CAD Knowledge;
• Proficiency in computer application skills; and
• Registered as a Graduate Engineer with the Engineers Board of Kenya.