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• Location: Nigeria
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Husk is one of the world’s leading distributed utilities. Founded in 2008, the company provides reliable power to rural communities and businesses, entirely from renewable energy sources – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – at a price they can afford.

Service Engineer

Role Summary

Husk is seeking a Service Engineer who will be responsible for all plant Operations and Maintenance for these plants and report to the Operations and Maintenance Manager. The individual must have a measure of technical competency 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.
• Ensure smooth operation of plants and meters.
• 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.
• Resolve Customer issues as per SOP.
• 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.
  
  

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.

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 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.
  
  

Deadline: Not specified

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