Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, July 23 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Summary: Description of the purpose of the job
Under the direction of the Shift Charge Engineer, the Shift Assistant is responsible for supporting the day to day plant operations in order to meet the operational and reliability standards required by UEGCL

Key Responsibilities: Brief description of duties or the responsibilities for the job
• Control of Active and Reactive Power, control of Voltage, current, generator winding temperature, turbine and generator bearing temperatures etc.
• Responsible for Start, Run, Synchronize, Load, shutdown of turbine generators as per instructions of the Shift Charge Engineer.
• Monitor Plant operation at all times and incase of System disturbance, normalize the system through safe and accepted switching procedures.
• Monitor and record meter and instrument readings in the control room and other equipment’s as required.
• Performs switching, safety testing and earthing as may authorized or instructed by the supervisor
• Monitor and Report alarms, trips, faults, abnormalities as they are picked up by the control room computers or the station and remote automated signalization instrumentation.
• Execute work packages as assigned by the supervisor
• Monitor and Record instrument indications at requisite intervals or as per special operating instructions or as they alarms may occur.
• Responsible for the maintenance of control room log book.
• Responsible for access control to all parts of the plant
• Carry out other assignments as instructed by the Shift Charge Engineer.

Reporting Relationships
Supervisor: Shift Charge Engineer Subordinate: Shift Attendants
Contacts/liaise with the following offices:
Internally
• All UEGCL staff

Externally
• UEGCL Stakeholders

Education and Professional Requirements:
The minimum education level required to perform this job.
• The required qualification for this position is a Higher National Technical Diploma (HNTD) in Electrical, Mechanical, telecommunication, Electronic engineering obtained from a recognized University, Technical college, Polytechnic or Institution of higher learning.

Related Job Experience/Qualification:
The Experience required to perform this job.
• A minimum of 2 years working at a power plant, heavy manufacturing Industry, processing plant or similar work places are needed for this position

Additional Skills/Competences:
In addition to the experience and educational requirements listed above
• Applicants must be physically fit, able to climb several stairs.
• Ability to work under extreme pressures and make calm and logical decisions.
• Astute and good IQ.
• Good leadership, communication and motivation skills.
• Ability to work in a team as well as lead it.
• Ability to work on shift
• Must be highly organized, systematic and precise in work.
• Strong computer skills in spreadsheet and some of the Microsoft Office


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested persons with requisite qualifications are invited to address their applications with copies of certified academic documents professional qualifications and detailed Curriculum Vitae indicating two referees and their full addresses to:
The Chief Human Resource Officer
Uganda Electricity Generation Company Limited
00000 UECCL
Bukoto
P.O. Box 75831, Kampala.
Applications should be submitted electronically as one attachment only in portable documents format (pdf) indicating the position applied for in the subject line to email address: jobs@uegel.go.ug 
Please note:
a) Only on-line applications will be considered.
b) Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
c) Shortlisted candidates will be required to present
original copies of certified academic documents during interviews
d) Applications without authentic academic transcripts will not be considered.
e) Contracts shall be issued in line with the Ministry of Public Service guidelines
UEGCL offers equal opportunities for both male and female applicants.
The deadline for submission of applications is August 2023 For any inquiries please contact the Human Resource team on email: jobs@uegel.go.ug  or
Phone: +256312 372165


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