We are seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to support and lead electrical engineering and maintenance activities across our plant operations in Egypt. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the integrity, reliability, performance, and safety of electrical systems, while driving continuous improvement in line with O&M plans, HSE requirements, and quality standards. Please note that this role will support multiple sites across Egypt and flexibility to travel will be essential to the role.
Key Responsibilities:
Engineering & Modifications
- Lead electrical engineering activities related to plant modifications, including design, development, manufacturing, installation, testing, and commissioning.
- Develop technical specifications for electrical equipment and components.
- Support bid preparation and technical evaluation of proposals, providing recommendations for vendor and supplier selection.
- Prepare feasibility studies, technical evaluations, drawings, specifications, and cost estimates for new installations or upgrades.
Maintenance & Reliability
- Supervise and monitor preventive, corrective, and overhaul maintenance activities to ensure safe and efficient execution.
- Review and continuously improve electrical maintenance procedures.
- Lead troubleshooting of critical electrical failures, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term corrective actions.
- Promote a condition-based and reliability-centered maintenance culture to reduce reactive maintenance and downtime.
- Support emergency breakdown response to ensure plant availability and minimize operational and financial impact.
Outage & Shutdown Management
- Support planning and execution of electrical outage and shutdown activities in line with OEM recommendations.
- Contribute to manpower, budget, and spare parts forecasting to ensure timely resource availability.
- Provide technical support during shutdowns to meet HSE, scope, cost, and schedule objectives.
SAP, Documentation & Reporting
- Ensure accurate and timely maintenance documentation in SAP, including logs, work orders, breakdown analysis, and repair details.
- Maintain up-to-date engineering and maintenance documentation, including RCA reports, performance analysis, and integrity inspections.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and work order management activities.
Health, Safety & Environment
- Ensure full compliance with HSE policies, procedures, and standards.
- Actively support safety awareness, investigations, and corrective actions in collaboration with the HSSE team.
- Ensure safe work practices are consistently applied by employees and contractors.
Stakeholder & Contractor Management
- Build strong working relationships with internal teams, EPCs, OEMs, contractors, and vendors.
- Provide technical guidance and clarification to ensure accurate execution of operational requirements.
Continuous Improvement
- Contribute to engineering improvement initiatives, change programs, and projects aligned with organizational objectives.
Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
Experience:
- 710 years of relevant engineering, maintenance, and design experience in power generation within renewable energy projects.
- Exposure to renewable energy technologies such as Wind and Photovoltaics is a strong advantage.
Skills & Expertise:
- Proficient in operation and maintenance of HV/MV electrical systems (switchgear, transformers, motors, inverters, protection systems) and substation technologies (GIS/AIS).
- Solid knowledge of international electrical standards (IEC, IEEE).
- Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance strategies using industry best practices.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills and expertise in downtime/root cause analysis.
- Hands-on experience with SAP-based CMMS systems.
- Strong understanding of HSE standards and Permit-to-Work systems.
- Skilled in budgeting, spares management, and contracts administration.
- Knowledge of RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintenance) frameworks.
- Strong project management, planning, and organizational skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, team leadership, and mentoring abilities.
- Flexibility to travel frequently to our sites in Egypt (Hurghada region, Aswan etc.)
