Summary
Date Posted: Friday, November 08 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Definition of role and mission
The senior Electrical Technician
• is responsible for maintenance execution and operations within his/her field of competence;
• ensures that maintenance operations under his/her responsibility are strictly carried out in accordance with COMPANY’s current safety rules and operating procedures and in accordance with standard industry practice, thereby guaranteeing the quality of maintenance operations, within his/her field, carried out on site by CONTRACTOR(S);
• guarantees a good level of availability of the equipment under his/her responsibility for on production sites;
• plays a predominant role in the transfer of skills to personnel undergoing training by mentoring on site.

Activities:
HSE
• Ensures HSE policy fulfillment during its activities;
• Have a good understanding of COMPANY and CONTRACTOR HSE rules;
• Assists COMPANY Supervisors on field to spread the HSE policies and to put the rules in place;
• Ensures that the team under its responsibility has well understood group policies and apply them;
• Assist COMPANY supervisor to write on a daily basic risks’ analysis for specific intervention;
• Participate to safety talk before and after intervention;
• Ensures that employees under its responsibility have the required habilitation;
• Participates to key procedure audits in proactive manner;
• Respects the waste management policy in force on site, verifying that all activities performed under its own responsibility, comply with it, without any exceptions;
• Applies Carbon Footprint Reduction guidelines as set up by CONTRACTOR and in line with COMPANY philosophy;
• Be aware and respectful of Cyber security COMPANY protocols if using COMPANY PCs / Industrial System / connected to COMPANY network.

Operations
• Performs on site the maintenance operations during normal shift and emergency which are placed under its team responsibility;
• With Electrical Maintenance team assists specialists working under Specific Maintenance Contracts;
• Ensures that COMPANY’s HSE regulations are respected (especially procedures related to Work Permits), as well as approved operating procedures and standard industry practice during the performance of maintenance operations placed under its responsibility;
• Ensures that all Maintenance and repairs to plant and equipment are carried out in a safe and efficient manner and in strict compliance with COMPANY operating procedures and any relevant statutory legislation in order to maintain all such equipment in sound and safe operating condition;
• Lead the execution of the preventive and corrective maintenance on all Tilenga CPF / Wells Electrical systems and equipment as per maintenance procedures and troubleshooting of the problems to ensure the integrity of the equipment for supporting production and processing facilities;
• Execute electrical rotating and static equipment maintenance activities (preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance) in cohesive, efficient & safe manner to ensure maximum plant uptime and to support sustainable production;
• Lead the execution of maintenance and repair works and inspection activities including disassembly and reassembly of Tilenga CPF / Wells Electrical systems and equipment inclusive of, without being limited to, switchgears, transformers, synchronizing system, batteries, circuit breakers, relays, fuses, bus-bars, voltage regulators, DC/AC Excitation Systems and auxiliaries;
• Perform on site the Electrical switching required for Gros Operations and ensure constant Electrical supply
• Act as Electrical Isolating Authority within its authorization limits in line with the PTW Procedure;
• Writes the technical reports related to its field;
• Monitors the functioning of systems placed under its responsibility;
• Ensures that the transfer of knowledge by mentoring occurs properly within its teams, and
• actively participates in this activity;
• Participate actively and with positive interactions to the Nationalization process for both Senior Ugandan Technician and Ugandan Technician;
• Coordinate with Trainers for Competencies gap analysis and appropriate Training response;
• Carries out, at COMPANY Supervisor request, any intervention within its field of competence;
• Takes in charge the systems under its responsibility in case of breakdown until correct operation status. Methods ✓ Identifies recurrent corrective maintenance interventions, analyses them and suggests improvements on all its perimeter (organisation, operations, Maintenance plan & procedure, material quality, diagram, ...);
• Keeps a critical eye on current preventive maintenance programs and, if need be, suggests improvements;
• Warns support teams of any recurring problems related to the availability or quality of spare parts and suggests improvements and requests modifications.

Quality Assurance
• Verifies the quality of its teams’ interventions by frequent on-site checks;
• Ensures that the members of its teams have the qualifications, as well as proper behaviour and skills required for the tasks entrusted to them and, if need be, suggests corrective measures.

Mandatory Trainings
• Defensive Driving;
• Manual Handling Awareness;
• Electrical Safety for Electrical Safety Personnel;
• IEC/Ex Equipment in Hazardous Area;
• HV/LV Switching;
• VSD/UPS
• Electrical Responsible Person;
• Portable Appliance Testing;
• HVAC Training / Refrigeration gas usage and recovery.

Qualifications required: The holder of this position must have the following qualifications:
The holder of this position must have the following qualifications:
• At least a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering or equivalent education with specialization in electrical engineering;
• The capacity to acquire ERA certification so to be able to gain class B quickly
• 3-5 years’ experience in the maintenance of production installations in oil and gas, power production or manufacturing;

Specific professional knowledge /or familiar with, and experience:
• Experience in LV, MV and HV installations and maintenance
• CMMS experience and know-how: Mainly to be familiar with WP/WR system;
• knowledge and experience in using distributed control systems
• Ability to lead and motivate multi-national teams;
• Pride in its work, ability to maintain good relations with colleagues and others
• Working language: English.
• must have a proven sense of responsibility & must be rigorous and methodical in its approach to operations;
• must be able to anticipate and analyse operational and technical problems;
• must have proven ability as a leader of a team;
• be perfectly competent and independent in his/her field, he must show common sense and
• organisational ability;
• The ability to demonstrate natural authority, founded on his/her abilities and on the trust he/she has in his/her teams, is essential.
• A good knowledge of the process of oil and gas treatment, and installations and a thorough knowledge of the equipment used in oil and gas treatment installations is an added advantage;




Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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