Job Title:  L3 Software Engineer (Rails) 

Department: Digital 

Reporting line:  Head of Software Engineering 

Location: Kampala or Nairobi 

Job Grade: 16 

About ENGIE Energy Access  

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-energyaccess.com    

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa  

Job Purpose/Mission   

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us. 

This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond. 

Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service – see https://paygee.com. 

Responsibilities  

• Participate in the software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations such as technical debt, feasibility at scale etc.  

• Own initiative and complete it from start to finish, provide guidance to other engineers and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with no supervision.  

• Represent technical team in business conversations in a range of scopes and work closely with stakeholders to deliver solutions which fit the needs of the business and provide fairly accurate effort estimates and risk assessment  

• Participate in Peer-Review, identify and document technical debt and contribute to delivering high quality software solutions  

• Participate and strongly contribute to architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, technical debt, assumptions, etc.  

• Contribute to change of processes, adoption of best industry practices and mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance  

• Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems) 

Knowledge and skills    

Experience:  

• 5 years of practical experience in software engineering of which at least 2 years in senior or lead role  

• Programming language proficiency in Ruby and Rails and front-end/JavaScript frameworks  

• Proven track record of building quality software with TDD  

• Strong knowledge of software engineering design and architectural patterns   

• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications with high availability, observability and structured logging  

• API design to scale in Ruby  

• Good knowledge of object relational mappers and their implementation design patterns  

• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring  

• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)  

• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Good to have experience   

• Experience in developing large production grade web applications with python, java or Go 

• Forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business 

• Strong foundation on distributed systems 

• Knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes 

• Server backend management experience (Linux, MySQL, Puma, Apache, Nginx, etc.) 

• Good knowledge on application security 

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions 

Qualifications:  

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science are preferred) 

Language(s):   

• English  

• French is a plus  

 Our Technology Stack:  

• Web framework: Rails 5 

• Background task: Sidekiq 

• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular 

• API: Grape, Devise 

• TDD: RSpec 

• Search: Thinking Sphinx 

• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis 

• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD 

• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible 

• Fresh Ideas Always welcome! 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.   

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!   

Job responsibility

Safety, Quality & Environment

• Perform all operational activities in line with the safety management system and environment management systems.
• Responsible to perform the duties as Designated Person and other duties in line with the implementation of safety rules.
• Provide monitoring for the ongoing maintenance jobs on assigned areas.
• Reporting of unsafe conditions and unsafe behaviors.
• Perform any tasks which may be assigned in the occurrence of any emergency under the Plant Emergency Response Procedure.

Plant Operations

• Conducts routine plant checks i.e. plant round ups and completion of log sheets.
• Perform operational actions under direction from the CRE (i.e. valve operation, switching on/off pumps or resetting the local alarms etc) to avoid any abnormal plant operations or to correct existing abnormalities.
• Perform the duties of stand in CRE whenever necessary.
• Prepares plant for start-ups in accordance with operations procedure.
• Performs plant shut down and extended shut down preservation of plant routines in accordance with operations procedure.
• Perform manual intervention actions during trip conditions and maintains close supervision to ensure safe run down of plant. 
• Practical application of safety rules performing safe plant isolations from the system to allow routine maintenance activities. De-isolates and restores plant equipment safely to the system. 
• Perform routine maintenance activity on the plant such as lube oil top-up in the absence of maintenance personnel.
• Support CRE during emergency situations.
• Carry out the sample analysis of the plant process steam water cycle in cases where Chemist is not on-site and on Demin water, distillate, potable water and other samples
• Monitors and evaluates performance of various plant systems and equipment.
• Responsible for maintaining safety and housekeeping of the plant.
• Initiates routine operational activities.

Maintenance activity

• Perform lube oil top up as required on plant equipment.
• Perform routine site inspections on routine basis to regular  update plant equipment status.
• Carry out dewatering routine in specified areas of the plant as required.
• Raising Work Orders Regarding Defects and Abnormal Conditions.
• Raise service request in CMMS system for defects coordinates with the Shift Team Leader for approval.
• Assistance to maintenance personnel to pinpoint equipment defects when necessary.
• Confirm the performance of the equipment after attending the defects.

Management of Plant Chemicals

• Responsible for changing over of chemical tanks.
• Responsible for ensuring that sufficient chemical tank levels are available for plant operations.

Maintaining Water Quality

• To ensure the export quality of potable water to meet with the WHO guide lines and potable water quality standards set in PWPA.

Policies & Procedures

• Follow all relevant operational procedures and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

Technical

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of Health, Safety and Environment Management procedures
• Understanding of Quality, Health, Safety and Environment management systems and safety rules
• Ability to demonstrate understanding and application of Operating Instructions and Procedures relating to the duties of a Field Engineer
• Demonstrate a practical understanding associated to the working principle of Gas Turbine, Steam turbine, HRSG, Desalination and a wide range of auxiliary plant.
• Ability to demonstrate safe and efficient local operation of the plant systems
• Ability to monitor the performance of the plant locally within a varying range of load conditions
• Start-up and shutdown of plant to current operating procedures
• Monitoring and Inspection of plant as per Operating Instruction’s
• Diagnosis of plant faults and ability to record defects using SAP.
• Awareness of the need for efficient operation of the plant to deliver high levels of commercial availability within environment limits.
• Effective liaison with the Control Room Engineer over plant operational issues.
• Ability to, and assist others to make decisions to resolve plant operational problems.
• Ability to conduct safe local plant isolations from the system.
• Ability to provide support to incidents in a range of situations.
• Conduct routine operating and maintenance activities such as oil change, filter cleaning etc.
• Communication and cooperation between the Maintenance and Operation teams.
• Working as part of a self managed shift team.
• Commercial awareness of PWPA and O&M.
• Good command of the English language.

Behavioral

• Good understanding of cultural differences that exist and ability to manage.
• Ability to be a strong team player
• Ability to be able to think clearly and respond calmly in emergency situations
• Ability to maintain high levels of focused drive and energy, setting personally challenging goals.
• Good organizational skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving abilities
• Ability to work and interact with departments throughout the organization.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• To work with integrity and a friendly approach.
• Able to protect company confidentiality

Essential Educational Qualifications:

• An engineering related education to diploma level.

Desirable Qualifications and experience:

• Having knowledge and exposure of modern process operations.
• At least 3 years relevant experience
• Fire fighting.
• First –Aid

La ENGIE Romania, dorim să venim în întâmpinarea nevoilor clienților noștri și să îi ajutăm să își atingă obiectivele, într-un mod eficient. Căutăm oameni talentați, care să pună clienții în centrul a tot ceea ce facem.

În prezent, căutăm o persoană care să aibă bune abilități de comunicare și experiență în lucru cu clienții pentru a se alătura Serviciului Vânzări, în calitate de CONSILIER VÂNZĂRI ENERGIE ȘI SERVICII pentru o perioadă determinată de 12 luni.

Dacă îți dorești să faci următorul pas în carieră, alături de o echipă competitivă și profesionistă, trimite-ne CV-ul tău. Ne poți ajuta să construim un ENGIE mai bun. Totul începe cu angajați remarcabili. Totul începe cu tine.

Ce vei face:

• Vei identifica și rezolva solicitările clienților, îi vei consilia sau îi vei orienta în vederea soluționării problemelor pentru care aceștia s-au prezentat, în vederea creșterii satisfacției și loialității lor;
• Vei primi, verifica și înregistra cererile și reclamațiile clienților;
• Vei solicita informații serviciilor conexe și vei elabora răspunsuri verbale, telefonice sau scrise la solicitările sau reclamațiile clienților;
• Vei modifica și actualiza bazele de date cu clienți casnici și non-casnici în baza solicitărilor clienților sau a corespondenței cu aceștia (schimbări de partidă, procesare contracte furnizare energie, procesare contracte prestări servicii, scanare documente);
• Vei opera stornarea facturilor clienților în baza contestațiilor consumului de către aceștia și vei refactura, punctual și manual, în regim de back office, cu aprobarea nivelului corespunzător delegărilor de competențe;
• Vei identifica clienții restanțieri și vei prelucra notificări de deconectare/reconectare, asigurând o permanentă legătură cu operatorul de distribuție în acest sens;
• Vei promova și vânde ofertele de energie și servicii.

Experiență, calificări, cunoștințe și abilități:

• Studii medii finalizate cu diplomă de bacalaureat;
• Experiență de minimum 1 an într-un post similar;
• Cunoștinte operare Microsoft Office, SAP (ISU și CRM);
• Experiență în lucrul cu clienții;
• Abilități de comunicare și prezentare;
• Capacitatea de a asculta și de a rezolva problemele clienților;
• Abilitați de lucru în echipă;
• Deschidere față de schimbare;
• Autonomie, inițiativă și implicare.

Reprezintă avantaj:

• Studiile superioare finalizate cu diplomă de licență.

Beneficii:

• Asigurare medicală privată pentru tine și familie;
• Acces la un program de dezvoltare personală și profesională;
• Tichete de masă;
• Concediu de odihnă extins, în funcție de vechimea în muncă.

Doar persoanele selectate vor fi invitate la interviu.

În cazul în care optezi să ne transmiți datele tale cu scopul de a candida pentru poziția menționată în prezentul anunț, te rugăm să iei cunoștință despre prevederile Notei de informare cu privire la prelucrarea datelor cu caracter personal ale candidaților: https://www.engie.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ER_Nota-de-informare-Candidati.pdf

Despre ENGIE

Grupul de companii ENGIE Romania activează în următoarele domenii de activitate: distribuţie şi furnizare de gaze naturale, producție din surse regenerabile și furnizare de energie electrică, precum și soluții verzi și servicii tehnice pentru instalaţii de gaze naturale şi centrale termice. ENGIE Romania şi filialele sale deservesc un portofoliu de 2 milioane de clienţi, operează o reţea de distribuţie de circa 22.600 km, deţin o capacitate de producție din surse verzi de 121 MW şi au 4.300 de angajaţi

The Mechanical Engineer will be accountable to supervise a team of maintenance technicians and support staff to fulfill the day to day mechanical maintenance activities at the power and desalination plant.  In addition to supporting the management of the major outages of the plant through the provision of a gas turbine long-term service agreement, ensuring that the plant meets Safety, Environmental, availability, reliability, efficiency, and budgetary targets.

Functions/ Task:             

Safety at Work

• Ensures the compliance of IMS. Ensure a safe working environment for himself, his colleagues and contractors while working on any equipment
• Obtains a Permit to Work for each job as necessitated by the safety and associated Procedures
• Ensures all  Method Statements Work Instruction and Procedures are followed by himself and Contractors while undertaking any work
• Ensures that all appropriate tools are available to ensure work can be carried out safely on equipment
• Supervises Mechanical Technicians and Contractors to ensure Safety Rules and HSE procedures are followed
• Reports any unsafe conditions in accordance with procedure

Maintenance Task Planning and Execution

• Ensures maintenance tasks are completed by the Technicians as per Work Orders generated in CMMS
• Ensures work done notes on maintenance carried out is documented in CMMS
• Produce reports as necessary on any maintenance activity
• Plans for and ensures that maintenance of all mechanical equipment is in accordance with OEM manuals and best practices for the equipment
• Along with the Lead Engineer, ensures mechanical maintenance planning is correctly scheduled so that all equipment is maintained as per recommended intervals
• Reviews Mechanical Maintenance Procedures and suggests where they can be improved

Equipment Failure Trouble Shooting and Repair

• Supports the 24-hour operation by being regularly available for call-out at short notice
• Attempts all possible means of reducing equipment downtime and ensuring high plant availability
• Performs trouble shooting activities as necessary to determine failure conditions and rectifies defects found;
• Records and reports to the Lead Engineer all rectification jobs undertaken
• Generates reports of equipment failures
• Performs Root Cause Analysis of Failures
• Works with Plant Operations Personnel for resolving problems encountered with mechanical equipment.

Reporting and Planning and Budgeting

• Discusses planned and unplanned jobs undertaken with the Lead Engineer
• Works with the Lead Engineer for outage planning and execution
• Assists the Lead Engineer in planning and budget preparation processes.

Spares, Consumables and Use of Tools and Equipment

• Ensures adequate inventories of spares and consumables are maintained
• Places requisitions for purchase of required spares and consumables
• Ensures necessary tools and equipment is available to all Technicians
• Ensures appropriate certification of all tools is done on a routine basis
• Ensures all tools and equipment are appropriately maintained and are in good working condition

Provision of technical advice:

• Delivers technical advice to colleagues and Contractors to ensure safety and the proper execution of Plant Maintenance Practices
• Applies engineering knowledge and skills to review and update task lists for equipment. 
• Implements initiatives to address inconsistencies in CMMS scheduling, practices and documentation.

Staff Development:

• Coaches Mechanical Technicians on a range of mechanical equipment, Safe Work Procedures and Operational Techniques to ensure proper execution of Plant Routines
• Prepares and delivers Technical Training, including modules on GT & ST, alignment techniques, valves, pump repairs, compressors, dryers, HRSG component inspections and BOP plant equipment.

Frame works, Boundaries, & Decision Making Authority:

• The jobholder operates under the general guidance of the Lead Engineer on all routine issues related to plant operations and team management
• The jobholder is free to plan and manage own areas of activity within policy/procedural boundary limits Any extraordinary issues arising outside of set policies and procedures are referred to the Engineering Manager/Lead Engineer for discussion and approval of recommended actions

Accountable for Outcomes:

Continuous on-the-job application of safety rules and HSE procedure

Frequency of Safety Incidents and near misses. 

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR)

No HSE compliance breaches.

Closed out Work Orders

Efficiency at work

Quality of Work

Quality of reports

Efficiency troubleshooting

RCA and follow-up action

Accuracy of outage planning

Accuracy of forecast budget

Downtime due to unavailability of necessary spares and consumables

Condition and quantity of available tool and equipment

Quality and accuracy of documentation
Skill of Technicians and quality of work
Staff feedback

Technical Support (TS) provides engineering and technical support to Operation and Maintenance team at the Marafiq IWPP.

The main activities are the Engineering and Data Management in close coordination with Power Operations, Desalination and Maintenance departments.

Key tasks involve:

• Supports the process for ensuring that all of the power plant assets within the Marafiq are compliant with engineering policies and all relevant statutory obligations associated with asset.
• Monitoring and evaluating various relevant parameters to provide accurate information and provide analysis of the performance of the different process in the plant.
• Preparation and submission of daily, weekly, monthly and any other report required by the business.
• Assists in the implementation of this process on a cost effective and timely basis in conjunction with all other maintenance and overhaul activities.
• Supports the management of engineering changes on plant systems, to ensure that they are executed in accordance with relevant Marafiq procedures.
• Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations.
• Lead the development and implementation of specific engineering work packages in support of these strategies as stand-alone activities or within the overall scope of major projects/overhauls.

Functions/ Task:             

Safety at Work

• Ensures the compliance of IMS. Ensure a safe working environment for himself, his colleagues and contractors while working on any equipment
• Ensures all  Method Statements Work Instruction and Procedures are followed by himself and Contractors while undertaking any work
• Reports any unsafe conditions in accordance with procedure
• Provide technical support for the change control process
• Carry out audits of compliance of all stakeholders within the Marafiq Team with relevant procedures for systems and implement corrective or improvement measures

Dimensions

• Track the production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets.
• Find ways to reduce those losses or high costs.
• In full partnership with the operations and maintenance teams develop plans to eliminate or reduce the     losses using good engineering practices and or RCA techniques.
• Provides technical support to operations, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Has direct responsibility for managing overhauls and projects.
• Has responsibility for managing project expenditure.
• Delegated responsibility for the development of asset management strategies for all plant assets within Marafiq to deliver the required performance at minimum through life cost 
• Indirect responsibility for variable levels of support from other department and external resources

Key success factors:

• Implementation of all physical activities with zero HSE events
• All projects completed within agreed budgets and programs
• Implementation strategies that integrate with major overhauls and maintenance activities with minimal additional disruption
• Effective and productive use of resources to meet the needs of Operation and Maintenance teams

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Accountable for Outcomes:
 

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the assigned tasks to deliver its required objectives and effectively support other Operation and Maintenance team activities as required.
• To continually liaise with the Engineering, Operations and Maintenance Managers and other relevant stakeholders within the Operations and Maintenance teams to maintain an overview of the work scope items required to be implemented via overhaul and major project events over a broad time horizon.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
• Lead the development and maintenance of an integrated planning process for Marafiq, which will effectively deliver these requirements, with the optimum balance of costs from plant downtime, resources and materials.
• To implement the strategies for asset integrity and statutory compliance of plant systems on a cost effective and timely basis. This will involve close co-ordination with other members of the Engineering, Operations and Maintenance teams to meet objectives via the efficient use of cross team resources
• Support the development and implementation of appropriate change control processes. Ensure that all changes proposed for plant systems are reviewed and confirmed as consistent with the requirements of asset integrity, statutory compliance, and functionality prior to implementation, and that all appropriate documentation, including revisions to plant data, is produced, disseminated and stored appropriately.
• Lead the detailed planning and co-ordination of each overhaul/major project event, including work packages being developed and implemented by other stakeholders within the O&M Team. Ensure that all resources (internal and external) and materials will be available as required. Manage the implementation of all activities, and ensure agreed HSE, quality, budgetary, program and resource productivity objectives are met.
• Take overall responsibility for the management of HSE (with the sole exception of safety from the system) through all stages of planning, co-ordination, and execution of activities. Co-ordinate HSE activities of other stakeholders and provide expert advice and support as necessary. Develop and implement appropriate and documented HSE management systems to ensure compliance with all statutory obligations, delivery of the required standards and continuous improvement. This shall include an effective internal audit regime to ensure compliance with objectives.
• Support relationship management with key component and overhaul service suppliers. Develop appropriate long term contract strategies to deliver the optimum balance of initial cost, technical risk and commercial liabilities. Ensure that all contracts are implemented in due time to support program objectives for the delivery of key parts (new or refurbished) and services.
• Provides technical support to operations, maintenance management and technical personnel

Job Context/Environment:

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the post holder has delegated responsibility for planning and implementing all major project works undertaken by the Marafiq team and achieving the required HSE, technical, budgetary and program objectives.

The post holder will have a key role in the management of health and safety, and will need to take a proactive approach to developing appropriate management methods and promoting a positive HSE culture both within the Engineering team and other departments.

Proactive input to the planning processes for engineering, maintenance and operational activities by the post holder will be required in order to achieve the asset integrity objectives with minimum disruption to availability and with efficient use of internal and external resources. 

Working Relationships

The post holder will have working relationships at various levels both with internal and external personnel. Key internal relationships will include: the Operation and Maintenance Managers, the General Manager and all members of the Engineering Team.

Technical Support (TS) provides engineering and technical support to Operation and Maintenance team at the Marafiq IWPP.

The main activities are the Engineering and Data Management in close coordination with Power Operations, Desalination and Maintenance departments.

Key tasks involve:

• Supports the process for ensuring that all of the power plant assets within the Marafiq are compliant with engineering policies and all relevant statutory obligations associated with asset.
• Monitoring and evaluating various relevant parameters to provide accurate information and provide analysis of the performance of the different process in the plant.
• Preparation and submission of daily, weekly, monthly and any other report required by the business.
• Assists in the implementation of this process on a cost effective and timely basis in conjunction with all other maintenance and overhaul activities.
• Supports the management of engineering changes on plant systems, to ensure that they are executed in accordance with relevant Marafiq procedures.
• Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations.
• Lead the development and implementation of specific engineering work packages in support of these strategies as stand-alone activities or within the overall scope of major projects/overhauls.

Functions/ Task:             

Safety at Work

• Ensures the compliance of IMS. Ensure a safe working environment for himself, his colleagues and contractors while working on any equipment
• Ensures all  Method Statements Work Instruction and Procedures are followed by himself and Contractors while undertaking any work
• Reports any unsafe conditions in accordance with procedure
• Provide technical support for the change control process
• Carry out audits of compliance of all stakeholders within the Marafiq Team with relevant procedures for systems and implement corrective or improvement measures

Dimensions

• Track the production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets.
• Find ways to reduce those losses or high costs.
• In full partnership with the operations and maintenance teams develop plans to eliminate or reduce the     losses using good engineering practices and or RCA techniques.
• Provides technical support to operations, maintenance management and technical personnel.
• Has direct responsibility for managing overhauls and projects.
• Has responsibility for managing project expenditure.
• Delegated responsibility for the development of asset management strategies for all plant assets within Marafiq to deliver the required performance at minimum through life cost 
• Indirect responsibility for variable levels of support from other department and external resources

Key success factors:

• Implementation of all physical activities with zero HSE events
• All projects completed within agreed budgets and programs
• Implementation strategies that integrate with major overhauls and maintenance activities with minimal additional disruption
• Effective and productive use of resources to meet the needs of Operation and Maintenance teams

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Accountable for Outcomes:
 

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the assigned tasks to deliver its required objectives and effectively support other Operation and Maintenance team activities as required.
• To continually liaise with the Engineering, Operations and Maintenance Managers and other relevant stakeholders within the Operations and Maintenance teams to maintain an overview of the work scope items required to be implemented via overhaul and major project events over a broad time horizon.
• Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems.
• Lead the development and maintenance of an integrated planning process for Marafiq, which will effectively deliver these requirements, with the optimum balance of costs from plant downtime, resources and materials.
• To implement the strategies for asset integrity and statutory compliance of plant systems on a cost effective and timely basis. This will involve close co-ordination with other members of the Engineering, Operations and Maintenance teams to meet objectives via the efficient use of cross team resources
• Support the development and implementation of appropriate change control processes. Ensure that all changes proposed for plant systems are reviewed and confirmed as consistent with the requirements of asset integrity, statutory compliance, and functionality prior to implementation, and that all appropriate documentation, including revisions to plant data, is produced, disseminated and stored appropriately.
• Lead the detailed planning and co-ordination of each overhaul/major project event, including work packages being developed and implemented by other stakeholders within the O&M Team. Ensure that all resources (internal and external) and materials will be available as required. Manage the implementation of all activities, and ensure agreed HSE, quality, budgetary, program and resource productivity objectives are met.
• Take overall responsibility for the management of HSE (with the sole exception of safety from the system) through all stages of planning, co-ordination, and execution of activities. Co-ordinate HSE activities of other stakeholders and provide expert advice and support as necessary. Develop and implement appropriate and documented HSE management systems to ensure compliance with all statutory obligations, delivery of the required standards and continuous improvement. This shall include an effective internal audit regime to ensure compliance with objectives.
• Support relationship management with key component and overhaul service suppliers. Develop appropriate long term contract strategies to deliver the optimum balance of initial cost, technical risk and commercial liabilities. Ensure that all contracts are implemented in due time to support program objectives for the delivery of key parts (new or refurbished) and services.
• Provides technical support to operations, maintenance management and technical personnel

Job Context/Environment:

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the post holder has delegated responsibility for planning and implementing all major project works undertaken by the Marafiq team and achieving the required HSE, technical, budgetary and program objectives.

The post holder will have a key role in the management of health and safety, and will need to take a proactive approach to developing appropriate management methods and promoting a positive HSE culture both within the Engineering team and other departments.

Proactive input to the planning processes for engineering, maintenance and operational activities by the post holder will be required in order to achieve the asset integrity objectives with minimum disruption to availability and with efficient use of internal and external resources. 

Working Relationships

The post holder will have working relationships at various levels both with internal and external personnel. Key internal relationships will include: the Operation and Maintenance Managers, the General Manager and all members of the Engineering Team.