Husk Power Systems (“Husk”) is an award-winning clean energy company serving rural India and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, it was named “World’s Best Challenger Brand” in the energy industry and is a 3-time Global Cleantech 100 company. The company’s AI-powered rural energy platform provides 24/7 renewable power to rural households, commercial customers, institutions, and small factories. It also delivers a range of other products and services, including e-commerce and credit financing of branded appliances for home and commercial use, as well as community-based solutions for e-mobility and the agricultural value chain. Husk’s mission is to supercharge economic growth and social well-being in rural communities that are unserved and underserved.

Husk Values

Honesty and Integrity; Act with discipline and integral to your job; Respect each other; Respect Human rights within our responsibility and contractual obligations. Frugal Innovation, Quality and Reliability; Respect for environment, health, and safety. Excellence as an attitude; We shall align perception to a common understanding of performance rating and measures., We > I, Fail Fast and Learn Faster Continuous Learning.

Husk is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, or religion. Husk is committed to improving gender balance within its teams in Nigeria and globally. Female candidates are therefore highly encouraged to apply even if not all requirements are met.

Benefits

Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent annual review processes that are gender inclusive, maternity, and paternity leave, gender-inclusive workplace conditions, family health insurance, and frequent training to assist the employees to grow in and to the next roles. Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work-life balance hence giving them the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their life.

Position Name: Project Manager (Site Augmentation)

Division / Function: Project & Installation

Location of the Job: Abuja, Nigeria with 80% travel to Husk Minigrids/ Potential Locations

Reports to: COO with a dotted line to the Country Director

Number of positions: 1

General:

• Drive all Project Planning related activities for the Projects Team.
• Regularly interact with various high level internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment with project delivery.
• Work closely with the COO, Country Director and other internal stakeholders to deliver on country business objectives. 
• Support the optimization of various Husk NG activities to ensure best practices are entrenched towards more efficient processes.
• Support in driving “Best Practices” across the business. Once a “Best Practice” has been identified, ensure that the practice is visible nationally and to another subsidiary.
• Understand the priorities of the country operations and support the Country Team when necessary
• Provide requisite support and inputs on building and aligning various company processes and policies according to global best practices.
• Other duties may be assigned from time to time.

Project Planning/Management

• Develop project schedules, set timelines, assign resources to the schedule, and provide budget estimates and project timeline forecasts.
• Work with other members of the Projects Team and other units to prepare technical proposals, provide inputs to project design and scope of work, management plans, work sequence, safety, quality control and commissioning tasks
• Conduct post project reviews to identify areas for future improvement.
• Drive collaboration and synergy between relevant teams to ensure project delivery within scope, timeline and quality.
• Track project performance and alignment with allocated resources.

QHSSE

• Ensure project quality and safety assurance; and coordinate all quality & safety activities throughout project duration.
• Ensure consistency between the project QCD objectives and customer satisfaction.
• Attend and assist with safety meetings and orientation including TBT at project sites.
• Conduct scheduled and unannounced inspections for quality and safety.
• Review accident/incident investigation reports.
• Ensure corrective action is taken to avoid recurrence of issues raised.

Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate, maintain regular communication, and develop positive and productive relationships with various stakeholders, regulatory stakeholders, customer/client groups etc.
• Own communication channels for engagements with all relevant stakeholders including the Support Functions Team – HR/Finance/Procurement and external sub-contractors.
• Provide regular updates on projects progress against set targets; to all relevant stakeholders

Business Growth and Support

• Ensure support for other Business Units for alignment with Project Planning/Management tasks.
• Work with relevant Business Units to ensure relevant land lease documents, building permits, other land documentation for compliance purposes.
• Provide inputs for contractual engagements with external sub-contractors

Required Skills and Attributes

• 10 years of experience with the majority of experience as a Project Manager delivering projects within the construction, (rural) infrastructure and power sectors- off grid power experience is a plus. 
• Relevant degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management; PM certification in PMP or Prince 2 or other – a plus.
• COREN certification to practice Engineering, a must. NEMSA certification desired.
• Proficiency in MS Office and relevant PM tools.
• Knowledge of design techniques and principles involved in the production of electrical plans and drawings; a plus.
• Familiarity with renewable energy equipment, overhead distribution materials and specifications.
• Experience reading and interpreting engineering drawings.
• Experience with contract documents (drawings, subcontracts, specification sheets and commissioning documents)
• Strong organizational skills, and attention to detail a must
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Fluency in English, both in written and oral communications.
• Intelligence and eagerness to learn and transfer knowledge.
• Passion for organization, details, and precision in all you do.
• Having autonomy to implement your creative solutions – not just coming up with ideas, but possessing the commitment and skill to implement them.
• Flexibility and comfort working in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Great team play and stakeholder management skills.

Location and Travel

This role is based in Abuja, Nigeria requires 80% to Husk Minigrids/ Potential Minigrids locations.

Salary

NGN500,000 – NGN700,000 based on experience. 

Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

DISCLAIMER:

This description indicates the general nature and level of the qualifications and duties required of employees in this job classification, as well as the essential functions a person must be able to perform to do this job. It is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Husk Power Systems and its subsidiaries are equal-opportunity employers and make employment decisions on the basis of merit and business need. We hire without consideration of race, colour, religion, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, or any other basis protected by law.