Solar Technical Coordinator

Job Description

Location: Harare, Zimbabwe
Time Type: Full time
Job Requisition ID: R-011591

Main Purpose:

Responsible for supporting the projects team with engineering and technical support for all solar/hybrid projects globally.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Quality Management System Compliance

• Comply and support the Quality Management system in all aspects of your role.
• Adopt and implement the principles of continuous improvement in all aspects of your role.
• Ensure the awareness of customer requirements (internal & external) are promoted throughout the business.
• Review, monitor and provide feedback on the effectiveness of the quality management system.
• Engage, support and continuously improve communication processes that support the quality management system and provide positive outcomes for the business, customers and key stakeholders.

Workplace Health & Safety

• As a worker;
  • Take reasonable care and personal responsibility for your own health and safety
  • Take reasonable care that your acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons
  • Comply, so far as you are reasonably able, with any reasonable instruction and training that is given
  • Co-operate with any reasonable policy or procedure relating to health, safety or environment at the workplace that has been notified to you
  • Attend and actively participate in consultative arrangements such as toolbox talks and risk assessments
  • Ensure vigilance and awareness of your workplace to ensure that any hazards, incidents, accidents or near-hits are reported to your supervisor.
  • Use machinery and equipment (including personal protective equipment-PPE) only in accordance with the procedures and training provided to you.
  • Be familiar with evacuation and emergency procedures and the location of first aid and fire equipment.
  • Ensure your activities do not cause, or are not likely to cause, environmental harm
  • Minimise waste; separate reusable and recyclable materials from the general waste stream, use bins provided.

Key Responsibilities:

DESIGN & ENGINEERING:

• Required to work with the Project team to design and evaluate PV Projects and Engineering for tenders and/or customer proposals (solar PV and hybrid systems), as per international standards including:
  • Civil and Electro-Mechanical engineering:
    • Design and evaluation of layouts for PV plant, SLDs, Distribution Boards and HSE.
  • Sizing Calculations:
    • Solar Sizing (load analysis), DC, AC Cable sizing, Tray sizing, Battery Sizing.
    • Execute Load and Shading analysis and evaluate the impact on Energy prediction of the Plant.
  • Hybrid energy systems:
    • Design and evaluation of hybrid systems (Solar/Battery/Genset/Grid).
  • Bill of Materials:
    • Preparation and evaluation of Detailed Bill of Materials, Project costing and economic analysis.
    • Cost Estimation of Pre-Awarded & Post-Awarded Project.

PROJECT EXECUTION:

• Support the Projects team in preparing/reviewing /following up the project program and obtaining information required for satisfying design, procurement and construction requirements.
• Create, execute and evaluate tenders and RFPs.
• Select the required components in the most commercial and cost-effective way. Review the design prepared by contractors/consultants as:
  • Construction Engineering Designs such as detail and assembly drawings, design Calculations, Physical Layouts following the mentioned design expertise.
  • Civil and Electro-Mechanical engineering, hybrid system designs and quotations.
  • Electrical Testing and inspection documents.
  • Detailed Bill of Materials, Project costing.

SUPERVISION:

• Coordinate project execution activities to ensure that projects are implemented within budget and schedule and project site is controlled and managed per internal standards.
• Through project coordination meetings and other means, monitors progress against project schedules and budgets.
• Follow up on action plan derived from construction contract dispute resolution meetings.
• Provide technical assistance, instruction and training to team members
• Continue to own the project through commissioning and handover

PROJECT FINANCING:

• Review proposals, keeping track of project finance and costing, highlight deviation

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Candidate must possess at least Diploma/Higher/Graduate Diploma/Bachelor Degrees in Electrical engineering

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of proven and progressive engineering and/or project execution experience.
• Experience in solar and energy projects (battery, hybrid, distributed energy)
• Experience in grid transmission lines and electrical codes
• Experience in thermal (gas, diesel etc) would also be beneficial
• Cost estimation experience

Skills:

• Fluent English: Fluent written and oral communication skills.
• Intermediate Spanish: Would also be beneficial
• Advanced knowledge of: AutoCAD, MS Office, PV Syst, Helioscope, HOMER
• Ability to execute several projects simultaneously.
• Setting up new systems and processes

Competencies:

• Getting things done
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Design Engineering Skills
• Team player
• Flexible and pragmatic
• Customer meetings and technical discussions

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Internal:

• Solar Project & Operations Manager
• Solar commercial teams
• Solar Executive Director
• Puma construction and operations team

External:

• Third party vendors
• Contractors
• Service providers
• Customers
• Regulators