QSTL-EACOP – ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

About this job:

Q-Sourcing Tanzania Limited is a manpower management solutions firm operating in the East African Region in the countries of Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

On behalf of our Tanzania based client, we are looking for a competent and experienced Electrical Engineer

POSITION IN THE ORGANIZATION

Reports to: N+1: Head of Maintenance and Inspection

N+ 2: Operations Director

LOCATION: MST – Tanga and frequent travel to EACOP site

WHO WE ARE:

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project is a Midstream development located across Uganda and Tanzania that includes a nearshore Marine Storage and Export Terminal (MST). Once completed, the EACOP Company will operate the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, a 1,443 km long, electrically heated crude oil export pipeline that transports oil from Kabaale - Hoima in Uganda, to the Chongoleani Peninsula near Tanga Port in Tanzania for crude export to the international markets.

JOB DIMENSIONS

Senior Electrical Engineer will support Back office Electrical Engineer for site electrical activities. Senior Electrical Engineer will act as Electrical authority MV and HV and will provide support and tutoring to electrical site technician(s).Senior Electrical Engineer will manage technicians, service contracts and interfaces with power grid stations or providers. He/She will be in charge of managing several service contracts such as UPS, Lighting, HVAC, vendors maintenance services.

He/she is responsible for maintenance and inspection activities of EACOP electrical equipment who are mainly:

• Pump package driven by electric VFD motor up to 2 M Watts.
  
• HV power distribution system
  
• Piping Heat tracing
  
• Pipeline LLHT system
  
• PV farm
  
• BESS (Battery system)
  
• UPS
  
• Electrical Control Panels, MCC, Switchgears, PLC’s, VFD’s, MoV’s, & CB’s,
  
• Diesel generators (4 M Watts)
  
• MVs, HV & LV Systems
  
• Building electrical wiring system and lighting system
  
• Air Compressors
  
• Nitrogen generator
  
• Fire Heater, Heat exchanger, Electric heater
  

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Production Operations:

• To ensure the performance / availability of the facilities, highlight miss-functions, compile relevant data, establish a diagnosis, produce corresponding report with corrective actions and participate to the implementation of the agreed plan.
  
• Prepare periodic or specific reporting of the maintenance activities under his/her responsibilities.
  
• Preparation/review of the complex or with external electric power provider interface PTW dossiers and confirm completeness.
  
• Preparation of Procedures for operation and shutdown instructions.
  
• Participation in production incidents or shutdowns are properly investigated and sign the associated production reports.
  
• Assist in identification of possible areas of optimization, potential improvement to increase equipment availability and cost reduction.
  
• Ensure execution of both planned and unplanned maintenances of electrical equipment so that ensure optimization of equipment efficiency and availability.
  
• Assist in the evaluation and participate on the validation of the Site Modification Request (SMR/RFM); consolidate the technical dossier on maintenance side.
  
• Participate in validation of the commissioning / pre-commissioning of new equipment or equipment modified; ensure the good management of the punch list after the hand-over.
  

Maintenance Operations:

• Participate and assist in the project commissioning activities and simops interfaces.
  
• Train and assist electrician technician according to electrical certification needs
  
• Contribute to optimization of the maintenance plan for critical electrical equipment.
  
• Analyze major malfunctions and failures for critical equipment, and contribute to the corresponding action plans with Electrical Engineer
  
• Contribute on supervision of Electrical spare parts management for critical equipment from Contractors by ensuring they respect the methodology and strategy are agreed and implemented within FO stock policy.
  
• Participate to Contractors audits when required.
  
• Assist Area Electrical Engineer with complex troubleshooting and maintenance activities.
  

Quality Assurance:

• Assist in supervising and evaluating the performance of the Maintenance service contractor, secure that REXs are well implemented for the maintenance plan to be updated.
  

Site Management:

• Build TEAM environment.
  
• Evaluate the personnel working in his team and make proposals for their training plan.
  
• Simop and electrical risk analysis maintenance and commissioning activity during operation.
  
• Contribute to the training of all personnel under his/her responsibility.