Manager, Operational Excellence at Husk Power Systems Nigeria Limited

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Manager, Operational Excellence

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full Time

Role Summary

• Husk is seeking a Manager, Operational Excellence who will be responsible for all plant operations and maintenance activities.
• The individual must have high level 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 Nigeria and Asia.
• The ideal candidate should have a positive attitude, be a team player, believe in Husk’s values, have an inherent curiosity to find creative solutions for problem-solving and have an appetite for growth.

Key Responsibilities
General:

• Reporting to the Nigeria Country Director and Global Operations Team and responsible for Uptime management, preventive maintenance, safety practices, capacity utilization, asset management, and report generation
• Responsible for the smooth functioning of PV Solar/Biomass hybrid power plants and implementing effective techniques to bring efficiency to the performance of the plants.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of commitment to the company’s success by proactively managing growth plans and a bias to action.
• Management of operational budget and monitoring of performance.
• Management of entire Service Team across different locations and NOCs.
• Other responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Plant Operations:

• Management of daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly equipment healthiness checklist; Preventive maintenance planning; Shutdown planning; Daily reading logbook, etc.
• Management of process for Quality verification and compliance of work during Handover – Take over from the Projects Department.
• Ability to ensure safety standards are followed at the core of operations and plan, organize, schedule, and direct the safety training and compliance at sites.
• Management of overall KPIs and deliverables for operations and ensuring that the complete team is aligned to the same.
• Responsible for training and development of the operations team including electricians, and engineers as per the system design standards.
• Responsible for overall monitoring and reporting of plant and asset health and performance.
• Regular interaction and engagement with other verticals especially sales to ensure and extend required support for growth of business.
• Responsible for managing and ensuring security standards at the plant and enable quick turnaround time for action in case of security issues.
• Responsible for management of spares and inventory components based on criticality and lifecycle of the components.
• Responsible for managing fuel supply chain and stock for Diesel generators and Biomass gasifiers.

Asset Management:

• Interface with the vendors/contractors to review the operation of plant equipment and systems continuously, minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate and solve problems in a timely manner, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure completion of technical documents; grid outages, onsite equipment problems, log entries, site visits; and safety and environmental inspections to comply with standard operating procedures.
• Interact and liaison with local authorities for smooth functioning of the plant and management of ROW issues.

Required Skills and Attributes

• Overall, a minimum of 12 - 15 years of relevant experience or more.
• B.Tech / B.Eng / MTech - Specialization: Electrical / Electronics Engineering from a reputable institution. 
• An MBA is an added advantage.
• Adequate knowledge and understanding of handling operations & maintenance of solar PV plants, Biomass, and other renewable energy sources, especially micro-grids.
• Should have Monitored maintenance of LT Transmission and distribution lines, protective relays & associated equipment, and inverters.
• Good knowledge of solar PV Panels, Inverters, Battery banks, T&D lines, SCADA systems, and all solar electrical operational equipment.
• Extensive knowledge of renewable energy, instrumentation control systems, and in-depth knowledge of both solar & biomass power generation systems and procedures.
• Experience working in dynamic high-growth entrepreneurial/start-up organizations.
• Team player and prior experience in the management of large, decentralized teams.
• Very proactive, with deep commercial acumen, and a high level of “customer-centricity”
• Problem-solving ability and prior experience in the management of mass-scale deployments with digital platforms.
• You have no issues working in (and living around) rural Nigeria.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.