Senior Vice President - Technical (Solar Energy) at Energy Talent Company

Energy Talent Company is building the future of renewable energy. At Energy Talent Company, we provide world-class talent solutions that empower people and companies in Africa’s energy sector. Through our talent training program and elite talent program, we train, vet and out-hire the best solar energy professionals.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Vice President - Technical (Solar Energy)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

General Duties and Responsibilities
Technical Leadership:

• Lead the company's technical efforts in the provision of the state-of-art power solutions across all business verticals: Residential, Commercial & Industrial, TELCo, SMEs, Mini-Grids and Utility Scale.
• Ensure Engineering and design of Solar PV meets both clients needs and industry benchmark.
• Lead Solution Architects to the preparation of technical proposals using the appropriate tools to determine the best configuration, material, and technologies for optimal performance
• Supporting the development of commercial proposals by providing material and quantity-related information to the commercial and finance teams for price modeling.
• Lead the technical team to ensure that proposals generally contain appropriate and accurate information/data and visual representation that effectively communicate the organization's value proposition to prospects.
• Develop electrical Single-Line-Diagrams and 3d Visualization to aid initial system architecture and project cost budgeting.
• Lead the Solution Architecture team to perform site assessment to capture customer load profiles, energy needs, location preferences, potential threats, and available infrastructure required for an optimal design.
• Developing and managing a database of site assessments and proposals as a corporate asset for decision-making
• Lead solar, battery and inverter sizing analyses whilst supporting a team of solution architects as well as peers from the Sales, Project Delivery, Customer Experience, Customer operations and Finance.
• Design of Standardized solar-hybrid solutions that can be deployed with minimal customization across all business verticals
• Support relevant efforts in the improvement on hardware developments, EMS and other R&D activities within the Embedded Engineering team
• Lead efforts in equipment selection, product development and systems integration whilst supporting a team of engineers within the product development and systems engineering units.
• Lead efforts in standard manufacturing and assembling processes by working with peers within the manufacturing team.
• Lead techno economic analyses to compare the technical performance and commercial viability of different configurations.
• Oversee participation in tender applications for Solar PV projects, from qualification to proposal submission
• Identify and explore new market opportunities that contribute to business growth and sustainability

Project Management and Execution:

• Oversee the entire life cycle of solar PV projects from project initiation to project closeout/handing over
• Support the development of projects by overseeing technical and HSSE due diligence.
• Oversee EPC contractors, vendors, service providers, regulatory authorities and other stakeholders during construction of projects.
• Contribute to the enforcement of standard practices across all phases of projects
• Draft the scope of work and estimate the respective project budget.
• Create and distribute RFPs to potential subcontractors, establish evaluation metrics, and select winning proposals.
• Manage contract negotiations, change orders, and other agreements with subcontractors and
• Vendors, and oversee all subcontractors’ work in all phases.
• Develop and maintain project timeline, identify critical path and key milestones for project’s success
• Achieve Zero LTI for every deployment
• Develop and enforce a standard Health, Safety and Environment policy
• Collaborate with the Finance department for accurate and timely internal reporting, covering aspects like cash flow, inventory and revenue
• Work closely with off-takers and clients to manage interfaces with construction works
• Oversee project budgets and timelines
• Support the projects transition into full-time operations and achieving handing over
• Support Supply chain in end-to-end material procurement, management and forecast

Commercial Leadership:

• Support the company's commercial efforts to build a robust pipeline of new business opportunities across all business verticals
• Supporting the sales team with technical pre-sales activities
• Supporting the commercial team with response to technical questions on RFPs
• Oversee participation in tender applications for Solar PV projects, from qualification to proposal submission.
• Support the commercial team with formulating and implementing strategies aimed at expanding the business portfolio across all business verticals.

Strategic Development:

• Work closely with the CEO to formulate and implement strategies aimed at expanding the business’s footprint and sustainability both nationally and internationally.
• Support Finance team to provide relevant input during technical due diligence as at when required.
• Every other thing as requested by the CEO.

Requirement and Skills
You’ll be a good fit for this role if you have:

• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods
• An excellent critical thinking and decision making skills
• An ownership and responsibility mindset
• Always excited to mentor young Engineers and personnel
• Relevant technically and managerial related professional certificates
• A member of an Engineering Society, preferably COREN
• HSE Certificates, PMP and NEMSA will be an added advantage
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• You currently lead a technically related team, run root cause analysis and provide technical project-based solutions in a telco, energy or utility sector. You lead from the front.
• You get things done, you are an execution expert with relevant certifications.
• You have a background in computer/electrical/mechanical engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience. You are an engineer at heart and in practice.
• You have deployed, supported or managed projects scaling over 20,000 customers/service nodes across all system architectures: DC-Coupled, AC Coupled, AC-DC Coupled and Grid Tied
• You are hard as nails - you don’t take no for an answer, You are also very empathetic to understand people need time to adapt.
• Customers love you, you are really good with people, you work well with people - you are the life of the party.
• You are proactive, and on point. You are excellence personified.
• You have hands-on experience with electricity.
• You are on top of your game, Ideally you are a sector thought leader.
• You have a sound commercial acumen, with a data drive approach to decision making - an experience with P&L is really desirable.
• Numbers make you smile, you love it.
• You would rate yourself a minimum of 8 in any of the following tools (Ms Project/Asana/Basecamp/Jira/Excel)

We’d also like to see:

• Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing environment
• An attribute of grit
• Good communication, strong leadership qualities
• Compliance oriented, good interpersonal skills
• Excellent time management, task prioritizing and organizational ability
• High level of attention to detail.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resumes and portfolios to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.