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Job Title: Graduate Trainee Engineer – Protection, Control & SCADA (No Experience Jobs)
Organisation: West Nile Rural Electrification Company Limited (WENRECo)
Duty Station: West Nile, Uganda
Reports to: Protection, Control and SCADA Engineer
About US:
The West Nile Rural Electrification Company Limited (WENRECo) is an Electric Energy Generation, Distribution & Sales company in the West Nile sub- region, in Northern Uganda. WENRECo is a subsidiary of Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), the industrial development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED).
WENRECo operates a Vertically Integrated off-grid utility involved in generation, distribution, and Sale of Electricity in the West Nile districts of Uganda & was the first off-grid Solution under a Public Private Partnership to qualify for World Bank Carbon Financing reliable and affordable hydro Power Generated from the 3.5MW Nyagak I Mini Hydropower plant has strengthened the West Nile region’s economy in Uganda within sub-Saharan Africa.
Job Summary: The Graduate Trainee – Protection, Control & SCADA will ensure safe operation and operational planning of the electrical distribution network, maintenance of network protection, Control and SCADA systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate network control operations including preparing and implementing switching and outage schedules.
- Facilitate and coordinate resolution of network faults on both medium and low voltage networks, including booking, issuing, and managing consumables for faults resolution.
- Performing protection coordination reviews and relay settings for effective MV network operation.
- Configure and administer network SCADA system.
- Participate in site acceptance inspection, testing, and commissioning of network protection and SCADA equipment.
- Carry out preventive and corrective maintenance of network protection and SCADA equipment, including but not limited to battery systems, auxiliary supplies, control circuits, relays, IEDs, switchgear, RTUs, among others.
- Liaise with network construction and maintenance teams, contractors, and other stakeholders to facilitate network construction and maintenance activities including staging and granting outages.
- Plan and prepare staff shift schedules for network control and faults teams.
- Prepare routine network operation reports.
- Any other duties as maybe delegated by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- B.Sc. Electrical Engineering with good Information Technology skills
- Knowledge in Power systems Protection
- Ethical
- Hardworking
- Honest
- Self-motivated
- Good inter-personal skills
- Innovative
- High safety consciousness.
- Good communicator
- Commitment
- Team player with ability to motivate a team.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should submit their cover letter, resume with contacts of three professional referees and copies of all academic documents as ONE PDF FILE by email to: hr@wenreco.co.ug
Deadline: 18th March 2024 by 5:00pm
Clearly indicate the position you are applying for in the subject line of your email.
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