Company: Egbin Power Plc
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Nigeria
Job Identification: 635
About Egbin Power Plc
Egbin Power Plc is one of Nigeria’s largest power generation companies and operates the Egbin Power Plant. The company is part of Sahara Power Group and operates a 1,320 MW installed-capacity power plant.
Job Summary
The Senior Reliability Engineer will ensure the reliability, protection integrity, control system stability and performance of electrical, control and instrumentation systems within the steam power plant. The role supports outage planning, incident analysis, predictive maintenance and plant performance optimisation.
Key Responsibilities
Electrical Protection and System Integrity
- Validate protection system settings, relay coordination studies and fault-level calculations.
- Review and approve protection schemes for generators, transformers, switchgear and balance-of-plant systems.
- Investigate electrical protection-related trips and recommend corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with grid codes and internal protection standards.
Control System and Instrumentation Reliability
- Analyse DCS, PLC and control system-related trips and system disturbances.
- Monitor DCS health indicators, redundancy performance and communication stability.
- Validate the calibration integrity and accuracy of critical instrumentation.
- Identify control logic vulnerabilities and recommend system improvements.
Reliability and Outage Risk Support
- Support electrical and control risk assessments during planned outages.
- Review return-to-service readiness from an EC&I reliability perspective.
- Identify recurring failures and lead corrective reliability improvement initiatives.
- Participate in root-cause investigations for major EC&I incidents.
Plant Performance and Optimisation
- Monitor heat rate, auxiliary power consumption and efficiency metrics from an EC&I perspective.
- Develop and track performance KPIs linked to electrical and control system reliability.
- Identify performance losses caused by instrumentation inaccuracies or control instability.
Predictive Maintenance and Asset Intelligence
- Support predictive maintenance analytics for electrical and instrumentation systems.
- Develop and maintain digital dashboards for EC&I reliability and performance reporting.
- Analyse condition-monitoring data to detect early signs of degradation.
- Integrate asset intelligence into maintenance planning.
Reporting and Continuous Improvement
- Prepare periodic reliability and performance reports for management review.
- Provide technical recommendations to reduce forced outages and nuisance trips.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives aligned with plant reliability objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electro-Mechatronics Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Minimum of 7–10 years’ experience in power utilities, hydrocarbon exploration and production or another asset-intensive industry.
- At least 3 years of experience providing independent assurance over technical control effectiveness and supporting plant reliability.
- Strong knowledge of electrical protection and power systems.
- Knowledge of control systems and automation.
- Knowledge of instrumentation and measurement systems.
- Strong reliability and performance analytics skills.
- Good risk and governance competencies.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online through the Egbin Power Plc recruitment portal.
Application Link: https://fa-eugs-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_7001/job/635
Application Closing Date
7th September, 2026.