About this role
About this job:
Q-Sourcing
Tanzania Limited is a manpower management solutions firm operating in the East
African Region in the countries of Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and South
Sudan.
On behalf of our Tanzania based
client, we are looking for a competent and experienced Electrical Engineer
POSITION
IN THE ORGANIZATION
Reports to: N+1: Head of Maintenance and Inspection
N+ 2: Operations Director
LOCATION: MST – Tanga and frequent travel to
EACOP site
WHO WE ARE:
The
East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project is a Midstream development
located across Uganda and Tanzania that includes a nearshore Marine Storage and
Export Terminal (MST). Once completed, the EACOP Company will operate the East
African Crude Oil Pipeline, a 1,443 km long, electrically heated crude oil
export pipeline that transports oil from Kabaale - Hoima in Uganda, to the
Chongoleani Peninsula near Tanga Port in Tanzania for crude export to the
international markets.
JOB DIMENSIONS
Senior
Electrical Engineer will support Back office Electrical Engineer for site
electrical activities. Senior Electrical Engineer will act as Electrical
authority MV and HV and will provide support and tutoring to electrical site
technician(s).Senior Electrical Engineer will manage technicians, service
contracts and interfaces with power grid stations or providers. He/She will be
in charge of managing several service contracts such as UPS, Lighting, HVAC,
vendors maintenance services.
He/she is responsible for
maintenance and inspection activities of EACOP electrical equipment who are
mainly:
- Pump package driven by electric VFD motor up to 2 M Watts.
- HV power distribution system
- Piping Heat tracing
- Pipeline LLHT system
- PV farm
- BESS (Battery system)
- UPS
- Electrical Control Panels, MCC, Switchgears, PLC’s, VFD’s, MoV’s,
& CB’s,
- Diesel generators (4 M Watts)
- MVs, HV & LV Systems
- Building electrical wiring system and lighting system
- Air Compressors
- Nitrogen generator
- Fire Heater, Heat exchanger, Electric heater
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Production
Operations:
- To ensure the
performance / availability of the facilities, highlight miss-functions, compile
relevant data, establish a diagnosis, produce corresponding report with
corrective actions and participate to the implementation of the agreed plan.
- Prepare periodic or
specific reporting of the maintenance activities under his/her
responsibilities.
- Preparation/review of
the complex or with external electric power provider interface PTW dossiers and
confirm completeness.
- Preparation of
Procedures for operation and shutdown instructions.
- Participation in
production incidents or shutdowns are properly investigated and sign the
associated production reports.
- Assist in
identification of possible areas of optimization, potential improvement to
increase equipment availability and cost reduction.
- Ensure execution of
both planned and unplanned maintenances of electrical equipment so that ensure
optimization of equipment efficiency and availability.
- Assist in the
evaluation and participate on the validation of the Site Modification Request
(SMR/RFM); consolidate the technical dossier on maintenance side.
- Participate in
validation of the commissioning / pre-commissioning of new equipment or
equipment modified; ensure the good management of the punch list after the
hand-over.
Maintenance
Operations:
- Participate and assist in the project commissioning
activities and simops interfaces.
- Train and assist electrician technician according to
electrical certification needs
- Contribute to optimization of the maintenance plan
for critical electrical equipment.
- Analyze major malfunctions and failures for critical
equipment, and contribute to the corresponding action plans with Electrical
Engineer
- Contribute on supervision of Electrical spare parts
management for critical equipment from Contractors by ensuring they respect the
methodology and strategy are agreed and implemented within FO stock policy.
- Participate to Contractors audits when required.
- Assist Area Electrical Engineer with complex
troubleshooting and maintenance activities.
Quality Assurance:
- Assist in supervising and evaluating the performance
of the Maintenance service contractor, secure that REXs are well implemented
for the maintenance plan to be updated.
Site Management:
- Build TEAM environment.
- Evaluate the personnel working in his team and make
proposals for their training plan.
- Simop and electrical risk analysis maintenance and
commissioning activity during operation.
- Contribute to the training of all personnel under
his/her responsibility.
- Organize Job Training (OJT) in coordination with the
Training Department.
HEALTH, SAFETY &
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
EACOP is committed to ensuring that the health,
safety and welfare of workers, communities, and the environment are well
addressed and managed. Therefore, the employee is mandated to:
- Fully comply with Company H3SE (Health, Safety,
Social, Security & Environment) policies and Life Saving Rules.
- Actively participate in HSEQ and promotes this
culture to co-workers.
- Remain vigilant and maintain continuous awareness of
potential unsafe conditions.
- Communicate to management any HSE related concerns
and ways to improve them.
- Maintain a workplace & workspace that is safe,
clean, and always neat – practice good housekeeping
Requirements
MANDATORY
REQUIREMENTS
QUALIFICATIONS
/ EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Academic
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical
engineering or similar
• Proficiency in Oral and written
English
• Good knowledge of CMIMS (Computerized
Maintenance & Inspection Management System).
• Certified MV and HV engineer
Experience
Required
• 10 years of experience in Oil &
Gas industry, 3 years minimum as site Electrical authority, Experience in
electrical Power generation, distribution, control and management systems with
10 years’ experience on transformers, HV/LV switchboards, HV/LV Motors, ECS and
PMS.
• Reliability, autonomy, analytical,
organizational capacity and strong technical knowledge
• Good knowledge of HSE
ADDED ADVANTAGE
• Proficiency in Oral and written
English.
How
to apply:
All
candidates who meet the criteria outlined as above are encouraged to send their
CVs/Resumes to: [email protected] or link below not later than 14 th November 2026.
https://jobs.qsourcing.com/jobs/Careers/735362000023075001/QSTL-EACOP-ELECTRICAL-ENGINEER?source=CareerSite
This
position is open to locals and expats.
For
any further clarifications call 0748 519 015.
Note:
Only
shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Q-SOURCING SERVTEC IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
EMPLOYER. ANY SOLICITATION WILL LEAD TO DISQUALIFICATION