Job description

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 O&M 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 India and Nigeria. 

Key responsibilities:

a) 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-ups and Maintenance of Plants.
• Train site electricians on the operation and maintenance of the system. 
• Resolve Customer issues as per SOP.

b) Plant Operations

• Play a key role as a member of the Mini-Grids O&M 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; safety and environmental inspections.
• Maintain daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly equipment healthiness checklist; Preventive maintenance planning; Shutdown planning; Daily reading logbook etc.

c) General Skills & Attributes

• You have a track record of resilience and leadership in periods of uncertainty and volatility
• You have a learning mindset and are keen to deliver hands-on solutions in the field
• You build great relationships and are a strong verbal communicator (English & Hausa preferably)
• 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.

Does this sound like you? 

• 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