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Lagos, Nigeria

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Senior Embedded System Engineer (Solar Energy)

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Senior Vice President - Technical (Solar Energy)

Closing: May 24, 2024

14 days remaining

Published: May 9, 2024 (1 day ago)

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Requirement and Skills
You’ll be a good fit for this role if you have:
  • Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
  • An excellent critical thinking and decision making skills
  • An ownership and responsibility mindset
  • Always excited to mentor young Engineers and personnel
  • Relevant technically and managerial related professional certificates
  • A member of an Engineering Society, preferably COREN
  • HSE Certificates, PMP and NEMSA will be an added advantage
  • Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
  • You currently lead a technically related team, run root cause analysis and provide technical project-based solutions in a telco, energy or utility sector. You lead from the front.
  • You get things done, you are an execution expert with relevant certifications.
  • You have a background in computer/electrical/mechanical engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience. You are an engineer at heart and in practice.
  • You have deployed, supported or managed projects scaling over 20,000 customers/service nodes across all system architectures: DC-Coupled, AC Coupled, AC-DC Coupled and Grid Tied
  • You are hard as nails - you don’t take no for an answer, You are also very empathetic to understand people need time to adapt.
  • Customers love you, you are really good with people, you work well with people - you are the life of the party.
  • You are proactive, and on point. You are excellence personified.
  • You have hands-on experience with electricity.
  • You are on top of your game, Ideally you are a sector thought leader.
  • You have a sound commercial acumen, with a data drive approach to decision making - an experience with P&L is really desirable.
  • Numbers make you smile, you love it.
  • You would rate yourself a minimum of 8 in any of the following tools (Ms Project/Asana/Basecamp/Jira/Excel)

We’d also like to see:

  • Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing environment
  • An attribute of grit
  • Good communication, strong leadership qualities
  • Compliance oriented, good interpersonal skills
  • Excellent time management, task prioritizing and organizational ability
  • High level of attention to detail.


Responsibilities
Requirement and Skills
You’ll be a good fit for this role if you have:
  • Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
  • An excellent critical thinking and decision making skills
  • An ownership and responsibility mindset
  • Always excited to mentor young Engineers and personnel
  • Relevant technically and managerial related professional certificates
  • A member of an Engineering Society, preferably COREN
  • HSE Certificates, PMP and NEMSA will be an added advantage
  • Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
  • You currently lead a technically related team, run root cause analysis and provide technical project-based solutions in a telco, energy or utility sector. You lead from the front.
  • You get things done, you are an execution expert with relevant certifications.
  • You have a background in computer/electrical/mechanical engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience. You are an engineer at heart and in practice.
  • You have deployed, supported or managed projects scaling over 20,000 customers/service nodes across all system architectures: DC-Coupled, AC Coupled, AC-DC Coupled and Grid Tied
  • You are hard as nails - you don’t take no for an answer, You are also very empathetic to understand people need time to adapt.
  • Customers love you, you are really good with people, you work well with people - you are the life of the party.
  • You are proactive, and on point. You are excellence personified.
  • You have hands-on experience with electricity.
  • You are on top of your game, Ideally you are a sector thought leader.
  • You have a sound commercial acumen, with a data drive approach to decision making - an experience with P&L is really desirable.
  • Numbers make you smile, you love it.
  • You would rate yourself a minimum of 8 in any of the following tools (Ms Project/Asana/Basecamp/Jira/Excel)

We’d also like to see:

  • Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing environment
  • An attribute of grit
  • Good communication, strong leadership qualities
  • Compliance oriented, good interpersonal skills
  • Excellent time management, task prioritizing and organizational ability
  • High level of attention to detail.


General Duties and Duties
Technical Leadership:

  • Lead the company's technical efforts in the provision of the state-of-art power solutions across all business verticals: Residential, Commercial & Industrial, TELCo, SMEs, Mini-Grids and Utility Scale.
  • Ensure Engineering and design of Solar PV meets both clients needs and industry benchmark.
  • Lead Solution Architects to the preparation of technical proposals using the appropriate tools to determine the best configuration, material, and technologies for optimal performance
  • Supporting the development of commercial proposals by providing material and quantity-related information to the commercial and finance teams for price modeling.
  • Lead the technical team to ensure that proposals generally contain appropriate and accurate information/data and visual representation that effectively communicate the organization's value proposition to prospects.
  • Develop electrical Single-Line-Diagrams and 3d Visualization to aid initial system architecture and project cost budgeting.
  • Lead the Solution Architecture team to perform site assessment to capture customer load profiles, energy needs, location preferences, potential threats, and available infrastructure required for an optimal design.
  • Developing and managing a database of site assessments and proposals as a corporate asset for decision-making
  • Lead solar, battery and inverter sizing analyses whilst supporting a team of solution architects as well as peers from the Sales, Project Delivery, Customer Experience, Customer operations and Finance.
  • Design of Standardized solar-hybrid solutions that can be deployed with minimal customization across all business verticals
  • Support relevant efforts in the improvement on hardware developments, EMS and other R&D activities within the Embedded Engineering team
  • Lead efforts in equipment selection, product development and systems integration whilst supporting a team of engineers within the product development and systems engineering units.
  • Lead efforts in standard manufacturing and assembling processes by working with peers within the manufacturing team.
  • Lead techno economic analyses to compare the technical performance and commercial viability of different configurations.
  • Oversee participation in tender applications for Solar PV projects, from qualification to proposal submission
  • Identify and explore new market opportunities that contribute to business growth and sustainability

Project Management and Execution:

  • Oversee the entire life cycle of solar PV projects from project initiation to project closeout/handing over
  • Support the development of projects by overseeing technical and HSSE due diligence.
  • Oversee EPC contractors, vendors, service providers, regulatory authorities and other stakeholders during construction of projects.
  • Contribute to the enforcement of standard practices across all phases of projects
  • Draft the scope of work and estimate the respective project budget.
  • Create and distribute RFPs to potential subcontractors, establish evaluation metrics, and select winning proposals.
  • Manage contract negotiations, change orders, and other agreements with subcontractors and
  • Vendors, and oversee all subcontractors’ work in all phases.
  • Develop and maintain project timeline, identify critical path and key milestones for project’s success
  • Achieve Zero LTI for every deployment
  • Develop and enforce a standard Health, Safety and Environment policy
  • Collaborate with the Finance department for accurate and timely internal reporting, covering aspects like cash flow, inventory and revenue
  • Work closely with off-takers and clients to manage interfaces with construction works
  • Oversee project budgets and timelines
  • Support the projects transition into full-time operations and achieving handing over
  • Support Supply chain in end-to-end material procurement, management and forecast

Commercial Leadership:

  • Support the company's commercial efforts to build a robust pipeline of new business opportunities across all business verticals
  • Supporting the sales team with technical pre-sales activities
  • Supporting the commercial team with response to technical questions on RFPs
  • Oversee participation in tender applications for Solar PV projects, from qualification to proposal submission.
  • Support the commercial team with formulating and implementing strategies aimed at expanding the business portfolio across all business verticals.

Strategic Development:

  • Work closely with the CEO to formulate and implement strategies aimed at expanding the business’s footprint and sustainability both nationally and internationally.
  • Support Finance team to provide relevant input during technical due diligence as at when required.
  • Every other thing as requested by the CEO.

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