Test and Repair Engineer needed at Okra Solar
Job title : Test and Repair Engineer
Job Location : Abuja
Deadline : April 26, 2024
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- This role will involve applying fundamental electronics engineering knowledge to assess a range of hardware devices with abnormal performance. The successful applicant will need to summarize and report diagnostics results to a range of stakeholders to ensure sufficient product fixes and warranty claim processes can be actioned further.
- The short term focus of this role will be to rapidly onboard to testing procedures for Okra Pods, inverters and batteries and generating in-depth reports to the product team and running smooth testing operations on a ongoing basis.
Responsibilities
Full ownership of all diagnostics and repair operations
- Debugging failed energy equipment (batteries, solar panels, Inverters, MPPT Controllers)
- Running all equipment received through the proper testing processes.
- Working with QA/QC, engineering and product teams to suggest product design optimisation to better handle common failure modes.
- Share operational reports on a regular basis, detect failure trends and work with engineering and product teams on their investigation
Working in the field with Service Delivery Member.
- Going out to rural off-grid area for multiple days at a time to deploy projects with our partners
- Facilitating training sessions on Field Operations with our partners
- Gather impact data and generating impact reports for engineering team.
Managing knowledge inside responsibility area:
- Maintain technical records of incidents and failures
- Create guides, manuals and other materials to support partners and users
- Contribute to continuous improvement of the field test and processes
- Contribute to product FMECA and risk analysis
- Upskill support team people for agreed operations
Hard Skills
- Hands-on knowledge of AC and DC power electronic equipment testing and repair
- Good documentation and process building skills
- Good issue trend analytics and reports creation skills
Soft Skills
- Good oral and written English communication
- Ability to research and problem solve (either form other team members or by online research)
- Comfortable to work in rural locations up to several workdays
Required Experience
- High school graduate
- 2+ years of experience working in power electronics testing and repairing
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with energy systems
- Lead-acid, Li-Ion or similar batteries testing and cell-by-cell repair experience
- Developing repair / debugging standards and procedures
Nice to Have
- University degree in Electrical Engineering or similar
- Experience working with solar power equipment
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