When people have electricity, incredible things happen. Placing ‘power’ in the hands of rural customers helps them realise their aspirations and dreams that they never thought could happen. Making this possible in every village is at the heart of everything we do.

Husk is the industry leader in Asia and Africa, operating the largest fleet of community solar microgrids, and offering a range of clean energy services, including power sales, appliance sales and financing, and rural C&I. We provide reliable power to households and businesses, entirely from renewable energy sources – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – at a price they can afford.

We design, build, own and operate the lowest cost hybrid power plant and distribution network in India and Africa. We offer our customers a flexible ‘pay-as-you-go’ energy service, using a smart, scalable digital solution. We provide low-cost energy that matches the growing needs of our customers; for households, community services and productive uses. Our grid-compatible solution can be rolled out quickly and cost effectively to support national electrification plans.

In Nigeria, Husk has 12 microgrids in operation, with the capacity to impact 50,000 people, and is significantly reducing the use of expensive, polluting diesel generation. Husk is poised to grow rapidly over the next four years, and envisions building 500 microgrids in the country during that period as part of its “Nigeria Sunshot” initiative.

Role Summary

This is a great opportunity to be part of a growing business, take ownership and be responsible for giving service to 8+ plants. In this role you will be responsible for all plant Operations and Maintenance for these plants and report to the O&M Manager.

Location of Job: Lafia (with 20% in HO, Abuja)

Key Responsibilities

• 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 Checkup and Maintenance of Plants.
• Train site electricians on operations and maintenance of system.
• Resolve Customer issues as per Standard of Operations.
• Ensure Customer connections as per guidelines and regulations.

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.

Great Career Progression Opportunity

• Successful Service Engineer have the potential to progress to an Area Service Manager and a Senior Management role with greater responsibility and compensation within 36-48 months.

Does this sound like you?

• You have a technical background with an understanding of electrical engineering (minimum education requirement: Diploma in Electrical Engineering)
• You have 5+ years of experience (Infrastructure and Telecom industries preferred) and are solutions driven
• You have 2+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ people and are hands-on while being able to take initiative to quickly resolve issues.
• 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 electricity-related faults and proffer 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.

Also;

• You are driven to support the delivery of business growth in a new market.
• You are an effective planner and have a strong orientation to process
• You building strong relationship built on trust, and are a strong verbal communicator
• Most importantly, candidate must fit company spirit where people work smart, play hard, have fun and are dedicated to success.