No Experience Agricultural Engineer Job Placement –
SolarNow
Job Title: Agricultural Engineer
Organisation: SolarNow
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
SolarNow is an asset financing company that sells high quality solar product and appliances to households and businesses in Uganda. The company started in 2011 and has since opened 46 branches throughout Uganda, employs around 600 people.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Introduction:
- Technical Definition: Ensure products have technical definitions based on industry standards and client requirements
- Sourcing: You support sourcing in screening of products and their relevant suppliers
- Testing and Specification: Create specifications, test methods for every product and their subsequent testing and reports
- Launch: Use product launch tracker to ensure controlled and successful launch of product, work to create technical value proposition, training, quality control etc,
Intervention:
- Report: You review why products have low customer satisfaction scores, what can be done about this and how -including review of solutions related to operational impacts and cost benefit
- Roll Out: You roll out the Intervention project given in proposal, working within the budget, across teams to ensure successful implementation
Insights: You use data from the insights engine actively throughout your interventions enabling feedback to the insights officers on ideas for improvements
Interface/ Communications:
- Work together with all the other Desks in the company to ensure a smooth project roll out.
- Support the development of communications out to Desks to promote the work you do and understanding on how your team works.
Management/ Coaching
- Reporting: You prepare your weekly report on time to enable accurate tracking of your work and the team
- Quality Assurance: You review work done by Junior Officers to ensure it meets requirements
- Performance Monitoring: You track and review the performance of Junior Officers to ensure optimal team performance
- Mentoring and Coaching: You support the development of the team through sharing skills and abilities
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the SolarNow Agricultural Officer job placement must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering or any related field.
- Knowledge on water pumps or irrigation solutions is an advantage.
- Highly motivated and passionate about work.
- Eye for technical detail.
- Able to work with minimum supervision.
- Good communication and reporting skills.
- Team player / People Management skills.
- Computer literacy: Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their applications to the Human Resource Manager, SolarNow Uganda Services via e-mail to recruitmentug@solarnow.eu with their updated CVs (no other documents).
Deadline: 26th February 2018
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