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Senior Electrical Engineer
2026-03-02T10:53:36+00:00
A Private Company
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FULL_TIME
Kampala
Kampala
00256
Uganda
Professional Services
Science & Engineering, Installation, Maintenance & Repair, Energy & Mining
UGX
MONTH
2026-03-13T17:00:00+00:00
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Description

Seawol Energy Services is hiring an Senior Electrical Engineer with the following qualifications;

Qualification:

  • Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering from an accredited university or equivalent.

Experience:

  • Minimum 8 years’ experience on Electrical systems and maintenance in the Oil & Gas environment, two years of which must have been spent working on an operational plant.
  • A good working knowledge of office software packages such as Excel, and preferably experienced in a CMIMS (e.g. SAP, MAXIMO).
  • Good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Must have good working knowledge of codes and standards used in the industry (NEC, NEMA, ISO, IEC, ATEX, NORSOK, ASME, ASTM, API, ANSI etc.).
  • Awareness of current legislation and practices with respect to plant operation and compliance reporting.
  • Fluent English is mandatory.

Dimension

The job holder is a part of the company Maintenance team and will report directly to the Electrical Lead Engineer.

He shall work as part of the Electrical discipline for the facilities preparing operational maintenance activities (procedure, contracts, spare parts requirements) for electrical systems

nsuring that they are technically accurate and can be executed in a safe and efficient manner in the production phase.

They shall develop their understanding of the operational requirements and the discipline to be ready to support operations at start-up.

After start up, he shall ensure support to site on all topics related to Electrical.

He shall also ensure the continuous training of Electrical Junior engineer.

Reporting Line in Organization: Lead Electrical/HVAC EngineerCommunications & Media Studies

Project Phase:

  • Participate in the review of documents and files in the Electronic Data Management System issued by the EPC to ensure they are of sufficient quality to be utilized for MIE activities and by Maintenance Personnel onsite during the Operational phase.
  • Participate in inter-discipline MIE activities including maintenance and criticality strategy development, global maintenance plan preparation, writing of maintenance plans and procedures.
  • Ensure that all MIE deliverables are in line with National Legislation, Affiliate and COMPANY Specifications and Best practices.
  • Prepare complex site maintenance procedures for the maintenance and testing of Electrical systems prepared with site supervision, ensuring incorporation of best practice.
  • Take active role in the Operating Spare Parts Selection process and procurement activities and assist Spare Parts Coordinator as required with the detailed spares requirement per equipment, inspection, shipment, delivery and storage of spares in COMPANY warehouse(s).
  • Participate in the review of documents and files in the Electronic Data Management System created and issued by the MIE Spares Contractor.
  • Ensure adequate preparation, review and validation of the Maintenance dossiers.
  • Preparation of Company Management System (CMS) documents within area of responsibility.
  • Attend SAT/FATs at vendor premises as required.
  • Assistance to the Commissioning/start up teams and Production/Maintenance/Inspection COMPANY teams as required.
  • Develop Digital Tools and applications required to effectively manage maintenance operations post start-up.
  • Develop technical Scopes of Work for Specialized Maintenance Contracts (SMCs) and be the technical duet for the Call for Tender process.

Operational Phase (additional to Project activities):

  • Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to site personnel on the operation and maintenance of electrical systems ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries and minimal disruption to operations.
  • Ensure all electrical equipment are maintained and kept in optimum working condition.
  • Ensure constant follow-up of equipment regarding their obsolescence and prepare any required upgrades.
  • Contribute to the ongoing monitoring of strategies for the maintenance and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all plant and equipment meets verification and compliance requirements.
  • Proactively monitor, review and analyze plant and equipment performance using Digital Tools and provide feedback to Line Management, identifying opportunities to maximise production and performance and share best practice.
  • Ensure Condition Based Maintenance is used to maximize electrical equipment availability whilst maintaining technical integrity.
  • Prepare scopes of work for vendor services and repairs, make recommendations on preferred contractors and coordinate vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned activities, monitoring and controlling manpower usage.
  • Conduct ad-hoc technical surveys at site and at vendor/repair locations, providing detailed technical reports identifying problems and solutions and ensuring optimum contractor performance.
  • Develop, monitor, challenge and improve Electrical maintenance procedures implemented.
  • Ensure all relevant operations and maintenance procedures and documentation are maintained accurately, kept current and available on request.
  • Develop and maintain good working relationships with site personnel through effective communication and regular site visits.
  • Develop positive and constructive relationships with contractors and suppliers and identify opportunities to improve contractor/supplier performance, reduce costs and improve quality of services/products supplied.
  • Ensure follow-up of Electrical contracts in terms of budget and scope performance.
  • Participate in budget definition and follow-up for assigned activities.
  • Assist department management and planning team in scheduling discipline maintenance activities ensuring site personnel have all required resources (materials, procedures and manpower) to execute tasks on time.
  • Ensure continuous training and upskilling of Junior engineers working in the team.
  • Ensure compliance with Company Rules and utilize Guide & Manual in electrical activities.

Accountabilities

  • Ensure highest safety standards and continuity and optimization of production.
  • Provide all aspects of engineering and technical support and assistance to site-based teams.
  • Develop and maintain productive and constructive relationships with site-based personnel, office operations/technical teams and external contractors/vendors.
  • Specific budget lines as delegated.
  • Contract Representative for nominated contracts and specific scopes of work.
  • Participate in the review of documents and files in the Electronic Data Management System issued by the EPC to ensure they are of sufficient quality to be utilized for MIE activities and by Maintenance Personnel onsite during the Operational phase.
  • Participate in inter-discipline MIE activities including maintenance and criticality strategy development, global maintenance plan preparation, writing of maintenance plans and procedures.
  • Ensure that all MIE deliverables are in line with National Legislation, Affiliate and COMPANY Specifications and Best practices.
  • Prepare complex site maintenance procedures for the maintenance and testing of Electrical systems prepared with site supervision, ensuring incorporation of best practice.
  • Take active role in the Operating Spare Parts Selection process and procurement activities and assist Spare Parts Coordinator as required with the detailed spares requirement per equipment, inspection, shipment, delivery and storage of spares in COMPANY warehouse(s).
  • Participate in the review of documents and files in the Electronic Data Management System created and issued by the MIE Spares Contractor.
  • Ensure adequate preparation, review and validation of the Maintenance dossiers.
  • Preparation of Company Management System (CMS) documents within area of responsibility.
  • Attend SAT/FATs at vendor premises as required.
  • Assistance to the Commissioning/start up teams and Production/Maintenance/Inspection COMPANY teams as required.
  • Develop Digital Tools and applications required to effectively manage maintenance operations post start-up.
  • Develop technical Scopes of Work for Specialized Maintenance Contracts (SMCs) and be the technical duet for the Call for Tender process.
  • Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to site personnel on the operation and maintenance of electrical systems ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries and minimal disruption to operations.
  • Ensure all electrical equipment are maintained and kept in optimum working condition.
  • Ensure constant follow-up of equipment regarding their obsolescence and prepare any required upgrades.
  • Contribute to the ongoing monitoring of strategies for the maintenance and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all plant and equipment meets verification and compliance requirements.
  • Proactively monitor, review and analyze plant and equipment performance using Digital Tools and provide feedback to Line Management, identifying opportunities to maximise production and performance and share best practice.
  • Ensure Condition Based Maintenance is used to maximize electrical equipment availability whilst maintaining technical integrity.
  • Prepare scopes of work for vendor services and repairs, make recommendations on preferred contractors and coordinate vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned activities, monitoring and controlling manpower usage.
  • Conduct ad-hoc technical surveys at site and at vendor/repair locations, providing detailed technical reports identifying problems and solutions and ensuring optimum contractor performance.
  • Develop, monitor, challenge and improve Electrical maintenance procedures implemented.
  • Ensure all relevant operations and maintenance procedures and documentation are maintained accurately, kept current and available on request.
  • Develop and maintain good working relationships with site personnel through effective communication and regular site visits.
  • Develop positive and constructive relationships with contractors and suppliers and identify opportunities to improve contractor/supplier performance, reduce costs and improve quality of services/products supplied.
  • Ensure follow-up of Electrical contracts in terms of budget and scope performance.
  • Participate in budget definition and follow-up for assigned activities.
  • Assist department management and planning team in scheduling discipline maintenance activities ensuring site personnel have all required resources (materials, procedures and manpower) to execute tasks on time.
  • Ensure continuous training and upskilling of Junior engineers working in the team.
  • Ensure compliance with Company Rules and utilize Guide & Manual in electrical activities.
  • Ensure highest safety standards and continuity and optimization of production.
  • Provide all aspects of engineering and technical support and assistance to site-based teams.
  • Develop and maintain productive and constructive relationships with site-based personnel, office operations/technical teams and external contractors/vendors.
  • Communication
  • Good working knowledge of office software packages such as Excel
  • Good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good working knowledge of codes and standards used in the industry (NEC, NEMA, ISO, IEC, ATEX, NORSOK, ASME, ASTM, API, ANSI etc.)
  • Awareness of current legislation and practices with respect to plant operation and compliance reporting
  • Fluent English
  • Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering from an accredited university or equivalent.
bachelor degree
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Vacancy title:
Senior Electrical Engineer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Science & Engineering, Installation, Maintenance & Repair, Energy & Mining]

Jobs at:
A Private Company

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, March 13 2026

Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, March 2 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Description

Seawol Energy Services is hiring an Senior Electrical Engineer with the following qualifications;

Qualification:

  • Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering from an accredited university or equivalent.

Experience:

  • Minimum 8 years’ experience on Electrical systems and maintenance in the Oil & Gas environment, two years of which must have been spent working on an operational plant.
  • A good working knowledge of office software packages such as Excel, and preferably experienced in a CMIMS (e.g. SAP, MAXIMO).
  • Good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Must have good working knowledge of codes and standards used in the industry (NEC, NEMA, ISO, IEC, ATEX, NORSOK, ASME, ASTM, API, ANSI etc.).
  • Awareness of current legislation and practices with respect to plant operation and compliance reporting.
  • Fluent English is mandatory.

Dimension

The job holder is a part of the company Maintenance team and will report directly to the Electrical Lead Engineer.

He shall work as part of the Electrical discipline for the facilities preparing operational maintenance activities (procedure, contracts, spare parts requirements) for electrical systems

nsuring that they are technically accurate and can be executed in a safe and efficient manner in the production phase.

They shall develop their understanding of the operational requirements and the discipline to be ready to support operations at start-up.

After start up, he shall ensure support to site on all topics related to Electrical.

He shall also ensure the continuous training of Electrical Junior engineer.

Reporting Line in Organization: Lead Electrical/HVAC EngineerCommunications & Media Studies

Project Phase:

  • Participate in the review of documents and files in the Electronic Data Management System issued by the EPC to ensure they are of sufficient quality to be utilized for MIE activities and by Maintenance Personnel onsite during the Operational phase.
  • Participate in inter-discipline MIE activities including maintenance and criticality strategy development, global maintenance plan preparation, writing of maintenance plans and procedures.
  • Ensure that all MIE deliverables are in line with National Legislation, Affiliate and COMPANY Specifications and Best practices.
  • Prepare complex site maintenance procedures for the maintenance and testing of Electrical systems prepared with site supervision, ensuring incorporation of best practice.
  • Take active role in the Operating Spare Parts Selection process and procurement activities and assist Spare Parts Coordinator as required with the detailed spares requirement per equipment, inspection, shipment, delivery and storage of spares in COMPANY warehouse(s).
  • Participate in the review of documents and files in the Electronic Data Management System created and issued by the MIE Spares Contractor.
  • Ensure adequate preparation, review and validation of the Maintenance dossiers.
  • Preparation of Company Management System (CMS) documents within area of responsibility.
  • Attend SAT/FATs at vendor premises as required.
  • Assistance to the Commissioning/start up teams and Production/Maintenance/Inspection COMPANY teams as required.
  • Develop Digital Tools and applications required to effectively manage maintenance operations post start-up.
  • Develop technical Scopes of Work for Specialized Maintenance Contracts (SMCs) and be the technical duet for the Call for Tender process.

Operational Phase (additional to Project activities):

  • Provide specialist technical/engineering advice and guidance to site personnel on the operation and maintenance of electrical systems ensuring highest safety standards, a timely response to queries and minimal disruption to operations.
  • Ensure all electrical equipment are maintained and kept in optimum working condition.
  • Ensure constant follow-up of equipment regarding their obsolescence and prepare any required upgrades.
  • Contribute to the ongoing monitoring of strategies for the maintenance and operation of plant/equipment to ensure that all plant and equipment meets verification and compliance requirements.
  • Proactively monitor, review and analyze plant and equipment performance using Digital Tools and provide feedback to Line Management, identifying opportunities to maximise production and performance and share best practice.
  • Ensure Condition Based Maintenance is used to maximize electrical equipment availability whilst maintaining technical integrity.
  • Prepare scopes of work for vendor services and repairs, make recommendations on preferred contractors and coordinate vendors, materials and equipment for planned and unplanned activities, monitoring and controlling manpower usage.
  • Conduct ad-hoc technical surveys at site and at vendor/repair locations, providing detailed technical reports identifying problems and solutions and ensuring optimum contractor performance.
  • Develop, monitor, challenge and improve Electrical maintenance procedures implemented.
  • Ensure all relevant operations and maintenance procedures and documentation are maintained accurately, kept current and available on request.
  • Develop and maintain good working relationships with site personnel through effective communication and regular site visits.
  • Develop positive and constructive relationships with contractors and suppliers and identify opportunities to improve contractor/supplier performance, reduce costs and improve quality of services/products supplied.
  • Ensure follow-up of Electrical contracts in terms of budget and scope performance.
  • Participate in budget definition and follow-up for assigned activities.
  • Assist department management and planning team in scheduling discipline maintenance activities ensuring site personnel have all required resources (materials, procedures and manpower) to execute tasks on time.
  • Ensure continuous training and upskilling of Junior engineers working in the team.
  • Ensure compliance with Company Rules and utilize Guide & Manual in electrical activities.

Accountabilities

  • Ensure highest safety standards and continuity and optimization of production.
  • Provide all aspects of engineering and technical support and assistance to site-based teams.
  • Develop and maintain productive and constructive relationships with site-based personnel, office operations/technical teams and external contractors/vendors.
  • Specific budget lines as delegated.
  • Contract Representative for nominated contracts and specific scopes of work.

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Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Engineering jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Friday, March 13 2026
Duty Station: Kampala | Kampala
Posted: 02-03-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 02-03-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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