Senior Electrician

**Key Accountabilities/ Principal Responsibilities**

**Primary Duties**
- Conduct scheduled preventative maintenance on Electrical equipment in respective facility in accordance with Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- Maintain MV and LT Electrical substations, cables tunnels and distribution boards.
- Inspect and test substation and DB earthling and test earth leakage
- Ensure that facility electrical reticulation complies with safety and environmental requirements.
- Install new equipment and modify existing equipment.as per approved request.
- Attend to breakdowns, prioritize, plan and order spares
- Carry out generator test runs and update log books

**Secondary Duties**
- Ensure each planned maintenance job card has task sheet attached.
- Ensure that all staff working on the job have appropriate PPE.
- Ensure that risk assessment and LOTO procedure have been followed.
- Ensure all tasks relevant to the planned maintenance are carried out satisfactorily, in accordance to legal requirements and OEM.
- Complete job card in full and obtain completion signatures.
- Submit completed job card for closing
- Report any follow-up work and any safety related matters noticed.
- Complete plant log book

**General**
- Train, develop and uplift junior staff through knowledge and skill transfer.
- Ensure that all tools used are well maintained, and the correct tools are used for the relevant trade
- Maintain good house-keeping in areas of responsibility
- Give feedback to helpdesk at each critical phase of the repair job.
- Assess scope of work and provide accurate labour and material quotations
- Demonstrate teamwork and readiness to assist fellow employees.
- Adhere to AFMS Policies, Protocols and Procedures
- Ensure compliance to Occupational Health and Safety Act.
- Willing to do standby duty
- Willing to work flexible hours

**It should be noted that, for operational reasons, it may be necessary to perform tasks other than those described herein from time to time.**

**Prescribed procedures may be amended by management as and when required**

**Key Skills and Experience**
- Grade 12
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience
- Nat Dip in Electrical Engineering or related qualification (Post Trade Test/ N3)
- Electrical Trade Certificate (Red Seal)
- A 3 Phase Wireman’s License (Installation Electrician)
- Willing to do training and work on High Tension if needed.
- Valid driver’s license (Code 8)
- Knowledge and good understanding of applicable Health & Safety regulations and procedures
- Willing and flexible to work extended hours and/or outside of normal working hours where required

**People and Management Skills**
- Ability to work independently
- Good attention to details
- Good people relationship skills
- Leadership skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Customer focused (Good customer relations)
- Good and proven leadership skills
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Ability to handle and control difficult situations
- Self-motivated (Driven)
- Willingness to walk the extra mile

**Key result areas**
- Understand role of reporting to the business and client
- Understand interworking with various teams to ensure client financial compliances
- Understanding that feedback and communication is critical to success

**Additional Responsibilities and Skills**

The employee acknowledges that all duties performed will reflect on the client and will thus act in a professional manner at all times, as FMS is a service provider, all necessary steps need to be taken to ensure that the service has been delivered according to client requirements, and to prescribed service levels.