The Lead Engineer (Boiler Controls) will be responsible for overseeing all preventive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance for boiler control systems, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and safety of operations.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Ensure adherence to preventive/breakdown/corrective maintenance schedule.
Develop and improve preventive/breakdown/corrective maintenance culture.
Ensures all preventive/breakdown/corrective maintenances are duly carried out and documented.
Ensures the outcome of weekly compliance and completion rates of preventive/corrective/breakdown maintenances are duly implemented and executed.
Monitor the closure of trouble memos on Enterprise Asset Management System (EAM).
Liaises with Lead Engineer Boiler field instrumentation to re – assess breakdowns of equipment for preventive maintenance schedule.
Addresses issues bordering on human resources and personnel issues and escalates it upward if not addressed or for further action where necessary.
Ensures all monthly reports are duly done.
Ensures all special reports are duly done and documented.
Periodically assess all staff under him for training needs for optimal performance.
Ensures availability of materials and tools required for the job.
Supervise control systems and instruments with a focus on both efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Ensures HSE guidelines are adhered to strictly during and on the job.
Develop a plant patrol and monitoring check sheet to be reviewed periodically as determined.
Provide support in spare parts planning, budget planning, purchase, and inspection activities.
Execute documentation according to the IMS standard.
Implements strategies that improve performance and reliability.
Ensures all risk registers for breakdown/corrective maintenance and the section are kept and reviewed periodically.
Perform other duties as assigned by the Unit Head Boiler Systems/Head of Department.
Education and Work Experience
Skills and Competencies
Technical Knowledge of I&C system for Boiler and auxiliaries.
Strong background knowledge of Emerson Ovation controls.
Sound understanding of work and history of turbine generators and auxiliaries.
Good knowledge of standard operating procedures with respect to I&C maintenance of Boiler/Turbine generator and auxiliaries.
Technical Troubleshooting skills.
Sound knowledge of safety requirements.
Good knowledge of computerized Maintenance Management system or equivalent.
Knowledge of the power generation process.
Effective Communication and Reporting Skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suites.
Sahara Group is a leading international energy and infrastructure conglomerate with operations in over 42 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Sahara is making a difference responsibly as a dynamic leader in various energy sub-sectors via its power (generation and distribution), downstream, midstream, and upstream businesses in key regional and global markets.
Sahara continues to explore new frontiers; creating innovative and sustainable ways of bringing energy to life responsibly through the unparalleled talent of the men and women who embody Sahara’s irrepressible spirit.
With over 5000 employees from multiple nationalities, Sahara is a uniquely diverse and inclusive organization committed to providing world-class energy solutions and promoting sustainable environmental, social, and good governance interventions across the globe.
Sahara has been at the vanguard of promoting global energy solutions in Africa, having metamorphosed from its initial focus on oil trading to an energy conglomerate renowned for championing capacity building and promoting global competitiveness in Africa’s energy sector.
Sahara continues to invest in technology, artificial intelligence, and human capital transformation as critical drivers of its systematic expansion to consolidate its status as an enterprise that creates value innovatively, responsibly, and sustainably.
Sahara’s social impact vehicle, the Sahara Group Foundation, is invested in empowering businesses one community at a time, through its unique EXTRAPRENEURSHIP model - leaving no one behind in the quest for global sustainable development.
