Operations & Maintenance Manager.
Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our partners to accelerate their decarbonisation journeys through our market-leading technologies and power system modelling expertise. These cover decarbonisation services, future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimisation technology, including the GEMS Digital Energy Platform.
Did you know Wärtsilä has delivered 79 GW of power plant capacity and more than 130 energy storage installations in 180 countries around the world?
In this fast changing world of energy, we are constantly on the lookout for future-oriented talent to join our team and to work towards enabling sustainable societies through innovation in technology and services – together. Want to join the ride?


Key Responsibilities
• Develops and maintains comprehensive maintenance plans, including scheduling, budgeting, and resource allocation.
• Coordinates maintenance activities, collaborating with maintenance teams, customer and other stakeholders to prioritize maintenance tasks and manage workflow.
• Coordinates maintenance resources, ensuring the correct personnel and competences, tools, parts and other resources are timely in place.
• Optimizes inventory management for maintenance parts and supplies to support ongoing and future maintenance activities.
• Monitors and analyzes equipment performance data and other operational data to predict maintenance needs, support maintenance planning and prevent unplanned downtime.
• Ensures compliance with safety standards and regulatory requirements during maintenance operations.
• Acts as a liaison between maintenance, customer, operations, and management to facilitate clear communication and effective planning.
• Actively interacts with customers to ensure high customer satisfaction.


Skill set requirement
Education qualification: Engineering degree – Electrical or Mechanical.
Experience
• Overall, 10 years of experience with atleast 3 years of managerial experience in O&M of a powerplant.
• Strong financial term understanding
• Experience in customer relations & customer management
• Experience in Multi-Engine Wartsila Gas / HFO Engine Plant in a managerial capacity


Knowledge requirement
• Manages short- to mid-term planning for a significant/multiple operational areas or contracts, contributing to site performance.
• Exhibits advanced knowledge of maintenance planning, maintaining expertise and credibility in the field.
Innovation and Change
• Identifies and supports modifications to planning systems, tools, practices and processes.
• Utilizes advanced analytics for operational insights.

Teamwork and Leadership
• Leads small planning projects or workgroups, planning and organizing resources to meet commitments.

Communication and Networking
• Develops and maintains key stakeholder relationships, actively seeking stakeholder input and acting upon feedback to improve planning.
Job location : BOTO power plant, Senegal.

Last application date: 18.04.2025.
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