Job Description

To supervise and undertake installations, maintenance and repair of pumping units and associated installations within the Tanzania Region in order to facilitate efficient transportation of the refinery feedstock.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintenance Planning: Undertakes effectively the development and implementation of preventive maintenance programmes on pumping units and associated installations in order to ensure their working order.
• Installations and Modifications: Undertakes timely installations and commissioning of new pumping units and modifications of existing ones in order to facilitate their use and continuity of operations.
• Repairs: Supervises and undertakes promptly, the repair of breakdowns on pumping units in order to prevent disruptions of operations.
• Requisition of Materials: Supervise and undertakes periodically the requisition of spares and inputs in order to meet sectional requirements.
• Sectional Budgeting: Undertakes efficiently, forecasting of requirements, scheduling expenses and creating budgets in order to facilitate resource mobilization.
• Induction of Operations Staff: Supervises timely, the induction of operations staff to new installations and modifications on pumping units, in order to build capacity to utilize equipment efficiently and safely.
• Fabrication of Spare Parts: Supervises timely, the fabrication and manufacture of spare parts for repairs of pumping units and related equipment in order to ensure continuity.
• Quality Control: Checks and ensures regularly that all works done at workshops and field conform to appropriate engineering standards in order to ensure their quality and durability.
• Maintenance of safety: Ensures that safety gear and equipment are available and safety regulations are followed at all working sites in order to facilitate the well-being of staff.
• Performance Management: Undertakes the implementation of performance management systems in order monitor and evaluate performance and develop remedial measures.

Minimum Qualifications

• Form VI Certificate
• BSc Mechanical Engineering
• Member of the Engineers Registration Board (ERB)

Preferred Qualifications

• Able to write technical and analytical reports
• Strong supervisory and team working skills
• Excellent critical thinking and computation skills
• Creative problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Computer Aided Design skills
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written in English and Swahili

Minimum Experience Required

• Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience

• Maintenance Planning: Undertakes effectively the development and implementation of preventive maintenance programmes on pumping units and associated installations in order to ensure their working order.
• Installations and Modifications: Undertakes timely installations and commissioning of new pumping units and modifications of existing ones in order to facilitate their use and continuity of operations.
• Repairs: Supervises and undertakes promptly, the repair of breakdowns on pumping units in order to prevent disruptions of operations.
• Requisition of Materials: Supervise and undertakes periodically the requisition of spares and inputs in order to meet sectional requirements.
• Sectional Budgeting: Undertakes efficiently, forecasting of requirements, scheduling expenses and creating budgets in order to facilitate resource mobilization.
• Induction of Operations Staff: Supervises timely, the induction of operations staff to new installations and modifications on pumping units, in order to build capacity to utilize equipment efficiently and safely.
• Fabrication of Spare Parts: Supervises timely, the fabrication and manufacture of spare parts for repairs of pumping units and related equipment in order to ensure continuity.
• Quality Control: Checks and ensures regularly that all works done at workshops and field conform to appropriate engineering standards in order to ensure their quality and durability.
• Maintenance of safety: Ensures that safety gear and equipment are available and safety regulations are followed at all working sites in order to facilitate the well-being of staff.
• Performance Management: Undertakes the implementation of performance management systems in order monitor and evaluate performance and develop remedial measures.

• Able to write technical and analytical reports
• Strong supervisory and team working skills
• Excellent critical thinking and computation skills
• Creative problem solving and trouble shooting skills
• Computer Aided Design skills
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written in English and Swahili

• Form VI Certificate
• BSc Mechanical Engineering
• Member of the Engineers Registration Board (ERB)