Ampersand Rwanda Ltd is looking for an Electrical Engineer, Network Facilities, to oversee the electrical design, installation quality, commissioning readiness, and maintenance of its battery-swapping station network.
The successful candidate will provide technical oversight of station electrical systems, supervise four electrical technicians, and coordinate with utility providers and contractors. Based in Rwanda, the engineer will also review station designs for the company’s operations in Kenya.
Important: A current RURA Class B electrical installation licence is mandatory from the start of employment.
Key Responsibilities
1. Electrical Design and Optimisation
The Electrical Engineer will develop and review electrical designs for new battery-swapping stations and existing installations requiring upgrades. Responsibilities include:
- Preparing and reviewing single-line diagrams, load schedules, and distribution-board layouts.
- Sizing cables, protective devices, and earthing systems in accordance with applicable IEC and national standards.
- Assessing continuous charger loads, harmonics, and ambient temperature when designing installations.
- Balancing charger loads across electrical phases and determining appropriate supply capacity in kVA.
- Reviewing designs prepared by contractors and the Kenya team before approval.
- Maintaining standard station-design templates and bills of materials.
- Checking the suitability and quality of electrical materials before procurement or installation.
2. Installation Quality Control and Commissioning
The engineer will ensure that electrical installations meet approved designs, technical requirements, and safety standards. Duties include:
- Developing and applying electrical quality-control checklists.
- Inspecting installations before energisation.
- Carrying out or witnessing insulation-resistance, earth-resistance, continuity, polarity, and residual-current-device (RCD) tests.
- Maintaining complete inspection and testing records.
- Preparing defect lists and approving installations only after defects have been corrected and verified.
- Investigating electrical faults, including phase failures, nuisance tripping, and charger-bank faults.
- Documenting root causes and corrective actions to reduce recurring failures.
3. Utility and Contractor Coordination
The role involves working with Rwanda Energy Group (REG), contractors, and other relevant stakeholders. Responsibilities include:
- Preparing and tracking new electricity connection and supply-upgrade applications.
- Following up on voltage fluctuations, outages, phase loss, and other power-quality issues.
- Coordinating transformer and medium-voltage installation works.
- Ensuring licensed activities remain within the scope of the applicable licence.
- Maintaining records of utility applications, site inspections, approvals, and outstanding actions.
4. Energy Cost and Tariff Optimisation
The engineer will analyse energy consumption and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs. This includes:
- Reviewing electricity bills and metering data.
- Analysing electricity costs per kWh, peak and off-peak consumption, and applicable demand charges.
- Recommending tariff, load-shifting, and supply-configuration improvements.
- Monitoring energy losses between grid supply and the energy delivered to batteries.
- Investigating unusual energy-consumption results.
- Reporting energy costs, consumption trends, and efficiency opportunities.
5. Electrical Technician Team Leadership
The successful candidate will supervise a team of four electrical technicians. Key duties include:
- Preparing weekly work plans and allocating site visits and fault call-outs.
- Monitoring task completion and supervising fieldwork.
- Coaching technicians on installation, testing, maintenance, and repair procedures.
- Enforcing safe working practices, including permit-to-work procedures, lock-out/tag-out, appropriate personal protective equipment, and safe isolation.
- Assessing technician competence and identifying training needs.
- Maintaining a team skills matrix and contributing to performance reviews and recruitment when required.
6. Preventive Maintenance and Asset Management
The engineer will develop and manage preventive maintenance across the battery-swapping station network. Responsibilities include:
- Preparing maintenance schedules for distribution boards, protection devices, earthing systems, chargers, cabling, and transformer platforms.
- Defining inspection and testing activities according to equipment requirements and risk.
- Scheduling maintenance visits and following up on overdue tasks.
- Maintaining station maintenance logs and asset registers.
- Reviewing fault history to improve maintenance intervals and spare-parts planning.
- Preparing monthly reports on maintenance completion, electrical faults, and station downtime caused by electrical failures.
Minimum Qualifications and Experience
Applicants must meet the following requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, or Electrical and Electronic Engineering with a power focus.
- A current RURA Class B electrical installation licence.
- Registration with the Institution of Engineers Rwanda (IER).
- Two to four years of post-qualification experience in electrical design, installation, commissioning, or maintenance, including experience with medium-voltage systems or distribution-transformer works.
- At least one year of experience supervising electrical technicians or site teams.
- Working knowledge of IEC 60364 for low-voltage installations, cable sizing, protection coordination, and earthing.
- Practical ability to use insulation-resistance testers, earth testers, and multifunction installation testers.
- Ability to read and prepare single-line diagrams.
- Experience implementing or contributing to a preventive-maintenance programme.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD or equivalent electrical-drawing software and Microsoft Excel.
- Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda.
- A valid driving licence and willingness to travel to sites throughout Rwanda.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
The following would be advantageous:
- A RURA Class C electrical installation licence or demonstrated progress towards obtaining one.
- Experience with REG connection and supply-upgrade procedures.
- Experience using power-quality analysers, thermal-imaging equipment, or electricity-metering data.
- Familiarity with electric vehicle charging, battery chargers, solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, or other power-electronic loads.
The vacancy states that Ampersand will support relevant professional development and progression towards Class C, where applicable, subject to company policy and an agreed development plan. Applicants who already hold a RURA Class C licence should indicate this in their application.
Required Application Documents
Interested candidates should prepare the following documents:
- An up-to-date CV.
- A copy of the relevant degree certificate.
- A copy of the current RURA electrical installation licence.
- Evidence of IER registration.
- A brief example of an electrical design or installation project explaining their specific contribution.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete a technical exercise involving a sample battery-swapping station load calculation, cable sizing, and protective-device selection.
CLICK HERE TO APPLY
Umubaruramari (Accountant) muri Koperative COMIKAGI: Deadline 05 Ugushyingo 2026
Important notice
⚠️ All Jobs and Opportunities published on fdo.net.rw are completely free to apply.
Never pay any fee during the recruitment process!
Even if fdo.net.rw does its best to avoid scam job or opportunity offers, job seekers or opportunity seekers are 100% responsible for applying at their own risk.
Check carefully before applying. If you doubt the legitimacy of any offer, do not apply and contact us at
freedigopp54@gmail.com
Never pay to get a job or opportunity - if you do, you do so at your own risk.
