CA Global - Our client, a renewable energy service provider, is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Project Development and Construction Engineer
Reference Number: 277 03 23 MNW
Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Description
- Our client is a Senior Project Development and Construction Engineer who will be a core part of the company’s growing in-house technical team.
- The incumbent will provide technical oversight and supervision to the company’s Developer Partners as they work to bring projects to commissioning, and serve as on-the-ground representative to Developer Partners and other stakeholders in Nigeria.
- The ideal incumbent will need to demonstrate an ability to use sound judgement to make decisions about assets being built in a challenging environment.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Developer Partners on mini-grid site selection.
- You will analyse site survey data for multiple sites and provide insights on productive use potential hence ensure the best sites are progressed
- Manage Developer Partners to ensure relevant permits, community commercial agreements and site exclusivities are secured on time
- Oversee project development milestones for multiple mini-grids projects, by regularly following up with the Developer Partners
- Arrange and lead stakeholder engagements and meetings to further project objectives
- Drive productive loads strategies to ensure developers have put in place measures to collect sufficient data at development phase and clear plans are in place to connect productive users
- Review and approve engineering designs for power generation plant and power distribution network to ensure developers comply with company standards
- Track and monitor project activities and milestones at deployment phase i.e. procurement and construction and provide project management oversight
- Provide technical oversight at construction phase to ensure mini-grid sites are constructed as per company standards
- Provide technical oversight on acceptance tests and start-up of operations at new mini-grid sites
- Apply company HSES policies to development, construction operations and maintenance on our sites and help to develop safe operating practices and standards
Requirements, Qualification and Skill
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant Engineering field required; other advanced Degrees and project management courses will be regarded favourably
- 4+ years of experience in assessing, developing, implementing and managing energy projects or power systems engineering
- 2+ years’ work experience in solar PV mini-grids development, construction or maintenance with a top-tier firm
- Strong understanding of AC/DC Electrical Power Systems, Power Electronics, and/or Solar Energy
- Experience in quality assurance/supervision of solar PV systems and power distribution network designs, bill of materials, technical specifications, construction, testing and commissioning
- Experience in mini-grid site assessments including end-user surveys, demand assessment, productive use, etc
- Proficient in data acquisition systems and monitoring systems
- Demonstrated ability to independently supervise multi-stakeholder projects
- Clear and effective communicator across diverse audiences.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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