Technical Operator, Electrical at Komaza Kenya

Komaza works to unlock the potential of small-scale farmers to solve Africa’s wood supply crisis. Collectively, small farmers possess limitless land and labor resources to plant billions of trees. Komaza provides farmers with support across the forestry value chain, from seedlings to sawmills. With a dramatically lower-cost and more-scalable forestry model, our vision is to become Africa’s largest forestry company, growing an environmentally-sustainable wood supply and generating truly life-changing income for millions of farmers.

About The Role

The Technical Operator, Electrical is a preventative maintenance and focused improvement specialist engaged to optimize the running and maintenance of equipment within the factory. Where breakdowns occur the multi-skilled Technical Operator will act to diagnose and troubleshoot faults and where necessary will recommend design improvements. The Technical Operator is also involved with setting the maintenance strategy for the respective production area. The Technical Operator is professionally competent and qualified to operate safely at a post apprentice level in at least two of the principal engineering disciplines; mechanical, electrical or Instrumentation and Control

This role will be based in Kilifi, Kenya.

What You Will Do

• Machine Operation – The Technical Operator shall ensure safe machine operation and implement WCM practices to ensure the machines run for a long time without any significant additional CAPEX


• Manage PLC and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Networks (eg Programme modifications, Force Devices and fault finding)


• Safety – Utilize all appropriate safety and environmental procedures for people, processes, materials, products and equipment to ensure a safe working environment for the whole team


• Workplace Hazards – Full knowledge of the workplace and hazards within it. Utilize appropriate safety and environmental procedures for people, processes, materials, products and equipment relevant to the task


• World Class Maintenance (WCM) – Knowledge and understanding of the key principles of WCM and the impact this has on the key performance indicators in the production area (PQSCDMI); must understand the critical inter-relation between WCM and TPM


• Act as a leading coach and mentor to the operations team around the areas of mechanical engineering and World Class Maintenance techniques


• The Technical Operator shall demonstrate an understanding of the Internal Architecture of Programme Logic Control (PLC) and Distributed Control Systems (DCS), their applications and knowledge of the number systems they use


• Ability to remove and replace major electrical components (such as motors, switch/control gear) and troubleshoot electrical circuits safely

What You Have

• Diploma in Engineering relevant engineering disciplines (as graded by national standards): Mechanical, Electrical or Instrumentation and Control


• At least 3 years of experience in either a manufacturing environment (FMCG) or saw mill


• Programme Logic Control qualifications


• Class B EPRA registration for the Technical Operator, Electrical will be an added advantage


• Experience as a team member within a project management team with an awareness of project management tools and techniques

You’re Also

• Strong leadership and communication skills


• Proven data analytical skills


• Ability to solve problems effectively

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