Company Description

About Us

Husk Power Systems (“Husk”) is an award-winning clean energy company serving rural India and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, it was named “World’s Best Challenger Brand” in the energy industry and is a 3-time Global Cleantech 100 company. The company’s AI-powered rural energy platform provides 24/7 renewable power to rural households, commercial customers, institutions, and small factories. It also delivers a range of other products and services, including e-commerce and credit financing of branded appliances for home and commercial use, as well as community-based solutions for e-mobility and the agricultural value chain. Husk’s mission is to superchange economic growth and social well-being in rural communities that are unserved and underserved.

Benefits

Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent performance review and reward processes that are gender neutral, maternity, and paternity leave, gender-inclusive workplace conditions with special attention given to the safety and security of our women employees, 18-day annual paid leave, and family health insurance. Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work-life balance, giving them the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their lives.

Job Description

• Manage the project organization in terms of processes and people to build an organization that can manage over 600 projects being executed globally in a year
• Maintain and manage working relationships with discoms dealing with electricity transmission & distribution for regulatory approvals
• Development of tools and systems to effectively and efficiently manage the projects
• Organization of resources (men, material and machines) to ensure delivery as per plan
• Build digital systems that can help scale project management and provide real time feedback of status on ground.
• Monitor & follow-up the project cost and productivity to achieve / exceed target profitability
• Support cash-flow by ensuring timely delivery and proper invoicing
• Deliver project as per man-month schedule and milestones
• Build partnerships with contract management for EPC for scaling projects to the tune of 30-50 site per month.
• Preparation of project plan in accordance with the budget
• Coordinate with engineering to develop preliminary design budget and final execution designs for zero deviation at site
• Create project budget based upon quotes and bids as also track project costs
• Monitoring site progress and clearly bringing out the risks involved, and support required
• Develop strong cross functional teams that can manage cross functional conflicts
• ROW (concocted and real) Issues Management
• Brainstorming sessions with the project, design and inventory Team to give product improvement
  feedback and align compliance
• Organize on the job training for technical manpower to build a competitive and quality driven team
• Regular interaction with Project/Finance/Inventory/Logistics Team at HO to ensure that the requisite
  support and resources are in place and the Site EPC Heads don’t have to look over their shoulders
• Ensure own manpower and other workers on site strictly follow safety protocols and always wear PPE
• Ensure right quality the very first time to avoid/reduce the cost of rework
• Standardize storage and handling for sensitive and critical equipment

Qualifications

• Experience and understanding of distributed generation solar projects
• PV Installation professional certification preferred
• Solid understanding of project management process
• High degree of problem solving and system architecting capabilities.
• Tech savvy and focus on scalability rather than conventional methods of project monitoring.
• Good record keeping and organizational skills.
• 10-14 years’ experience in the energy sector, particularly in solar Industry with previous similar management assignments.
• B.Tech / M. Tech - Any Specialization (Electrical /Mechanical/Civil/ Electronics Engineering).

Additional Information

Location and Travel

This role is based in Abuja, Nigeria with regular travel to Husk Mini grid and other operational locations.

Salary

Based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications, salary can be negotiated if required

Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

DISCLAIMER:

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 Systems and its subsidiaries are equal-opportunity employers and make 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.