Xina Solar One Power Station
The Xina Solar One Power Station is a 100 MW (130,000 hp) concentrated solar power plant in South Africa. Constructed between 2014 and 2016, the power station was commercially commissioned in 2017. The solar component of this power station is complemented by molten salt thermal storage technology, which allows the power station to provide full power for another 5.5 hours after the sun goes down, thus supplying energy during South African peak hours. The consortium that owns the solar farm comprises a foreign independent power producer (IPP), two domestic finance development companies, and a local charity. The energy generated here is sold directly to Eskom, the South African national electricity utility company, under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA).
The Job Holder will be appointed as a Xina Operations and Maintenance (Pty) Ltd employee and will be based at the following registered address: Xina Solar One Portion 4 Farm Scuit - Klip 92 Pofadder Northern Cape
Duties & Responsibilities
- Day to day personnel management of a multi-disciplinary maintenance team including Mechanical, C&I, Electrical, Solar Field and Warehouse departments.
- Safely ensure the day-to-day efficient management of all plant maintenance activities through a team of site-based staff according to good practice, company rules, procedures and policies, OEM guidelines, legal, environmental, contractual and other requirements.
- Manage staff in line with company policies ensuring fair and consistent treatment.
- Organizing and coordinating required technical training to enhance the professional skills of the O&M team.
- Encourage team members, provide guidance and promote staff development, develop a highly capable O&M team qualified for the activities assigned to them.
- Ensure implementation of effective and economical operating methods and techniques and identify technology changes, which can be implemented to advance the same.
- Implement effective predictive and preventative maintenance techniques for plant maintenance programs.
- Develop and ensure implementation of plans, procedures, instructions, guidelines to achieve safe operation, optimum availability, and operating efficiency of the power plant.
- Review maintenance and test reports.
- Ensure that all statutory maintenance inspections, interventions, and reviews are planned, executed and recorded accordingly.
- Utilize SAP ERP for the execution of the maintenance plan.
- Review and keep maintenance documentation up to date.
- Ensure and drive implementation of efficient and effective maintenance methods and techniques.
- Establish and ensure maintenance of effective monitoring and reporting systems.
- Serve as a technical resource to the Business.
- Participate in plant incident investigations, provide recommendations, compile incident reports and follow-up on any action plans.
- Analyse and study operating maintenance costs and take necessary measures as required.
- Confirm and approve all purchase requisitions initiated by Department Heads and Section Heads.
- Control of outsourcing and suppliers for any maintenance and repair work; the sourcing of preferred local suppliers and spare parts.
- Establishing of short and long-term strategic maintenance strategies for the plant.
- Approve recommendations for spare parts purchases made by Department Heads.
- Manage maintenance spare parts inventory.
- Lead meetings with Department Heads to discuss operating conditions, maintenance progress and any difficulties and planned activities for following week.
- Participate in O&M meetings and ensure reporting per business requirements.
- Ensure maintenance is performed in line with the O&M Contract.
- Management of outsourced maintenance contracts such as OEM LTSA.
- Management, planning and safe execution of scheduled outages and overhauls.
- Receive and evaluate pertinent reports, relating to cost and progress of maintenance activities on the plant and transmit analysis to the Head of O&M.
- Adhere to all company policies and procedures.
- Developing and reporting of maintenance KPI’s.
- Develop, control and optimize the maintenance budget, report on variances on a monthly basis.
- Control maintenance operations and take any necessary corrective action to ensure compliance with approved Business Plans and Budgets.
- Work closely with outside inspection and overhaul contractors and provide them with all necessary support.
- Play a key role in driving in promoting company culture.
- Ensure reporting to all stakeholders and participate in stakeholder engagements as required.
- Perform any other duties as required by the Plant Manager.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Skills:
- Drive to achieve results through themselves and others.
- Ability to build and work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary staff.
- Ability to work together with the other departments in order to achieve the best result for the company.
- Take ownership.
- Maintain high ethical standards.
- Motivation and leadership of team and individual team members.
- Seek, organize and exchange information for decision making and problem solving.
- Ability to create a climate of open communication on personal and professional issues.
- Ability to develop and Maintain budgets and planned preventative maintenance schedules.
- Ability to work autonomously, prioritizing tasks and activities in line with business objectives.
- Quality and Environment awareness and managing according to quality standards and procedures.
- Innovation, vision, creativity, taking initiative, problem solving and decision making.
- A pro-active approach to planning and decision making.
- Ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders.
Knowledge:
- Maintenance principles and working procedures.
Language:
- English Language: excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Computer:
Computer literate: must have a high degree of skill in Business Computing Applications such as Word Processors, Spreadsheets, PowerPoint and SAP.
General Responsibilities
- Adheres to the Company Policies and Procedures.
- Behaves in a responsible way.
- Lives the values of the company.
- Undertakes other duties as may be expected within reason.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
Essential Qualifications:
- Degree/Diploma in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.
- Relevant Management qualification (MDP) added advantage.
- GCC Certification added advantage.
Experience:
- 5-7 years’ experience in a similar role.
- Knowledge and experience of Steam Turbine operation, Siemens units preferred.
- Working with enterprise asset management database platforms – (SAP, Maximo, MS Office).
- Working within a multi-cultural environment.
- Experienced in outage planning and management.
- Proven delegation skills and ability to create a work climate where people are empowered to act.
- Excellent communication skills, capability to communicate clearly and concisely at all levels.
- Leading and managing a large team.
- Interaction with operation, engineering, administration and HSE.
- Experience in planning maintenance operations.
- Warehouse management.
Package & Remuneration
The compensation will be market related.
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