Electrical Engineer at Sahara Power Group

Electrical Engineer – Sahara Power Group

Rivers State

The ideal candidate will be responsible for all Electrical systems in the Power Plant and provide the necessary routine maintenance and ensure 100% availability of the plant systems.

Sahara Group

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Electrical team in resolving issues highlighted as part of analysis from the planning and efficiency team.
• Ensure high availability of all Electrical equipment and systems in the power plant.
• Minimize cost of maintenance of the plant and optimize equipment lifecycle cost.
• Supervision of maintenance measures in Electrical maintenance unit and ensuring quality maintenance.
• Respond to any electrical equipment malfunction or breakdown.
• Ensure proper record of faults and repairs on plant electrical systems.
• Ensure availability of spares and other infrastructure for maintenance.
• Minimize response time to the Operations unit for handling routine day-to-day problems.
• Optimize Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
• Plan resource requirements for electrical maintenance–manpower, materials, and contracts.

Qualifications

• First degree Electrical/ Electronic Engineering.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in the Power Industry.
• Member of COREN, Post Graduate degree and other certifications are added advantages.
• Experience in a Power plant of minimum 20MW capacity.
• Experience in any other oil and gas process or production facility.

Skills/knowledge

• Technical knowledge of all electrical systems.
• Understanding of working of equipment and history of equipment.
• Knowledge of standard operating procedures with respect to maintenance of Electrical system.
• Good knowledge of troubleshooting and maintenance of switchgears, motors, UPS/DC systems.
• Technical trouble shooting and ability to identify root cause of problems to avoid recurrence.
• Knowledge of safety requirements and environmental aspects of power generation.
• Knowledge of modern maintenance management practices and spares inventory management.
• Knowledge of statutory guidelines related to electrical equipment Knowledge of Engineering.
• Experience in Low, medium, and high voltage electrical systems. Experience in 132KV HV systems is an added advantage.
• Skilled in maintenance planning, scheduling, and technical reporting.
• Ability to carry out preventive and proactive interventions of plant electrical systems using OEM design schematics with minimal supervision.

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