Technical Adviser – Overhaul Project Manager at Sahara Group

Technical Adviser – Overhaul Project Manager at Sahara Group. Please make sure you read through the job details before applying for this position.

Sahara Group is a leading international energy and infrastructure conglomerate founded in 1996 and headquartered in Lagos. Sahara Group has business operations across the energy and infrastructure value chain including the upstream, midstream, downstream, power, real estate and infrastructure. We deploy our deep knowledge and insight into the African energy and infrastructure sectors to seek out entrepreneurial opportunities based on which we develop market-leading businesses. Our vision is to become “the provider of choice wherever energy is consumed”.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:

Job Title: Technical Adviser – Overhaul Project Manager
Location: Ijede, Ikorodu, Lagos
Job Type: Contract

Job Summary

• Responsible for planning, supervising and managing overhaul maintenance activities with combustion and steam turbine (with emphasis on attached specifications).
• Also, support plant operations for reliability and availability issues, while assisting Engineering with the technical and operational troubleshooting on emergent issues.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction on project management for major overhauls of combustion and steam turbines and associated auxiliary equipment by outside contractors and/or support maintenance staff to include work identification, condition assessment, repair procedures, vendor qualifications and start up after outages.
• Ensure the overhaul of the steam turbine, boiler and control protection system is planned and progresses as scheduled to meet performance and cost objectives.
• Perform reliability/risk assessments on combustion steam turbine components and auxiliaries.
• Support plant operations with identification of best operation and maintenance practices for combustion and steam turbines.
• Evaluate various maintenance programs and practices and make recommendations to optimize maintenance cost effectiveness, work quality, outage time and availability.
• Provide input on existing and new long-term maintenance plan for combustion and steam turbines and components.
• Developing and training of Project supervisors in TREP in Overhaul supervision technics through in-house knowledge sharing sessions.

Education & Work Experience

• A Bachelor’s Degree or its equivalent in Mechanical Engineering.
• BSME desired or equivalent experience with a minimum of 15 years inclusive combustion and steam turbine maintenance project experience.
• This individual should have first line supervision experience in supervising Steam Turbine overhaul maintenance with experience working on Hitachi (or Equivalent) Steam Turbines. In-depth knowledge of trends and developments in global accounting and finance practice.

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Skills & Competencies:

• This individual should have knowledge of correct tooling and rigging required to perform maintenance activities on various types of static and rotary machines such as alignment machine and balancing machine.
• Ability to collect, integrate and analyze information from multiple sources to create cohesive, fact- based analysis.
• High proficiency in MS word, Projects, Excel, Power point and outlook and other office programs.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills with Knowledge and experience in project cost estimation.
• Strong network of industry contacts (Power plant OEMs, IOC etc.) from which to willingly generate investment or development opportunities for Egbin.
• High ethical standards and integrity.
• Excellent command of English language.

Method of Application

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