CrossBoundary Energy Recruitment 2024(5 Positions)

Who We Are

• CrossBoundary operates in frontier markets that also hold immense investment opportunities. The chosen candidate will play an important role in a unique team with the opportunity to make a large impact on the renewable energy landscape in Africa.
• Team members come from diverse backgrounds, but share a number of qualities: curiosity, humility, integrity, a drive for excellence, and a bias for action.

Who You Are

• Self-starter: You don’t wait to be asked to add value.  When faced with an impasse, you convene the subject-matter experts you need to find a way forward.  You hold yourself personally accountable for brokering solutions where authority is unclear.
• Deliberate: You are straightforward and known for choosing the simple, robust solution where more complicated approaches would deliver the same results. Your colleagues praise you for translating complex inputs into a plan of action.
• Entrepreneurial: You want to work out how new technologies can be used to optimize our work and enable us to create robust products
• Excellence: You demonstrate and maintain the highest personal standards, continually pursuing opportunities for improvement.  You are not afraid to get your hands dirty to untangle a complex issue
• Flexibility: You are comfortable with ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving and complex environment that does not have a fixed rule book.  You identify opportunities where control or processes are needed, or where creative problem solving is required and take the necessary action
• Collaborative: You are eager and willing to train up colleagues, contractors and stakeholders to consistently deliver excellent work
• Curiosity: You distill the signal from the noise, and assist others to generate creative solutions by looking at problems from new perspectives.
• Authentically Cares: You are patient and skilled at developing relationships with clients, suppliers, and teammates to consistently deliver excellent outcomes
• Clear Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; crisp, clear, concise, and persuasive communicator that can connect with a broad range of audiences

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading and managing the technical and commercial performance of CBE’s operating portfolio of TESCO projects in Nigeria
• Management of O&M subcontractors and partners, ensuring work is executed on time and to the highest standards
• Responsible for meeting MTTR obligations for incident resolution, ensuring job tickets raised by the Network Operations Centre are closed within expected timelines, and to expected standards and quality
• Oversee the security of CBE and client assets, working with security companies and the client to build and execute robust security strategies and measures, under guidance from the Security Manager
• Responsible for timely delivery of fuel to sites as well as avoiding fuel theft.
• Management of subcontractor Engineering resources in the Client’s Network Operations Centres with oversight of trouble ticket resolution processes from alarm to resolution
• Ensuring that all CBE Assets are maintained in compliance with Component Warranties
• Recruiting, training, and managing a team of Field Engineers that each have responsibility for a collection of site operations
• Monitoring, forecasting and ensuring sufficient stocks of spares are held within CBE warehousing, and that MSPs have sufficient consumable inventory to conduct preventative and corrective maintenance
• Ensure compliance of all statutory and contractual requirements for all projects in the operating portfolio
• Pursue cost reduction strategies, to exploit synergies and other opportunities to reduce costs and increase margins
• Interface regularly and effectively with the operations and finance teams to continue improving on the systems and processes required to manage the operating portfolio

Qualifications
Ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:

• 8+ years relevant working experience
• 5+ years work experience in managing the operations and maintenance of a large portfolio of digital infrastructure assets within a Towerco or MNO
• Process Optimisation, continual improvement, and automation experience
• Experience managing the contracts and performance of multiple subcontractors
• Experience driving operational change in complex or stressful environments
• Experience working in Nigeria
• Experience with monitoring and control systems and management of Operations Centres
• Experience building teams and controlling costs through the introduction of technology

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Engineering degree (Mechanical / Electrical / Electronic)
• 5+ years work experience in operations, preferably in a TowerCo or Telco
• Demonstrated familiarity with hybrid power systems and energy as a service
• Experience managing the contracts and performance of multiple subcontractors
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field
• Demonstrated ability to independently supervise multi-stakeholder projects
• Clear effective communicator across diverse audiences.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Who You Are

• Self-starter: You don’t wait to be asked to add value. When faced with an impasse, you convene the subject-matter experts you need to find a way forward. You hold yourself personally accountable for brokering solutions where authority is unclear.
• Deliberate: You are straightforward and known for choosing the simple, robust solution where more complicated approaches would deliver the same results. Your colleagues praise you for translating complex inputs into a plan of action.
• Entrepreneurial: You want to work out how new technologies can be used to optimize our work and enable us to create robust products
• Excellence: You demonstrate and maintain the highest personal standards, continually pursuing opportunities for improvement. You are not afraid to get your hands dirty to untangle a complex issue
• Flexibility: You are comfortable with ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving and complex environment that does not have a fixed rule book. You identify opportunities where control or processes are needed, or where creative problem solving is required and take the necessary action
• Collaborative: You are eager and willing to train up colleagues, contractors and stakeholders to consistently deliver excellent work
• Curiosity: You distill the signal from the noise, and assist others to generate creative solutions by looking at problems from new perspectives.
• Authentically Cares: You are patient and skilled at developing relationships with clients, suppliers, and teammates to consistently deliver excellent outcomes
• Clear Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; crisp, clear, concise, and persuasive communicator that can connect with a broad range of audiences

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversee the CBE Telecom Nigeria contract management, understanding our obligations to customers, suppliers, and contractors and tracking CBE’s performance against these commitments. Draft amendments or updates to these contracts with support from CBE counsel
• Monitor performance of CBE’s client, suppliers, and contractors on their obligations to CBE, quantitatively identifying the best-performing vendors for future, expanded responsibilities
• Represent CBE in relationships with key banking, accounting, and external legal services providers
• Create process maps that track how the functional departments of CBE Telecoms Nigeria – construction, maintenance, ESG, regulatory, legal – work together, and recommend ways to streamline collaboration and information sharing
• Support CBE’s finance and policy leads to monitor and maintain business statutory compliance
• Design and deliver data-driven reports to Operations Director measuring project KPIs to inform management decisions and meet investor reporting requirements
• Lead on short-term, interdisciplinary strategic initiatives at the request of the Operations Director
• Develop new checklists, procedures, tools, procedures, and templates to better capture and organize knowledge on CBE Telecom Nigeria’s standard operating procedures
• Train CBE teams on use of essential software tools to organize their information and more easily report on project progress

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3+ years experience working in operations, IT, or administration at a top-tier international corporation OR supporting growth of a start-up enterprise
• Background in change management or business process optimization
• Excellent strategic writing and presentation skills; ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Who You Are

• Self starter: You don’t wait to be asked to add value. When faced with an impasse, you convene the subject-matter experts you need to find a way forward. You hold yourself personally accountable for brokering solutions where authority is unclear.
• Deliberate: You are straightforward and known for choosing the simple, robust solution where more complicated approaches would deliver the same results. Your colleagues praise you for translating complex inputs into a plan of action.
• Entrepreneurial: You want to work out how new technologies can be used to optimize our work and enable us to create robust products
• Excellence: You demonstrate and maintain the highest personal standards, continually pursuing opportunities for improvement. You are not afraid to get your hands dirty to untangle a complex issue
• Flexibility: You are comfortable with ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving and complex environment that does not have a fixed rule book. You identify opportunities where control or processes are needed, or where creative problem solving is required and take the necessary action
• Collaborative: You are eager and willing to train up colleagues, contractors and stakeholders to consistently deliver excellent work
• Curiosity: You distill the signal from the noise, and assist others to generate creative solutions by looking at problems from new perspectives.
• Authentically Cares: You are patient and skilled at developing relationships with clients, suppliers, and teammates to consistently deliver excellent outcomes
• Clear Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; crisp, clear, concise, and persuasive communicator that can connect with a broad range of audiences.

Primary Responsibilities

• Overall project financial and technical delivery throughout project implementation (from contract signature to site commissioning and cutover), in line with the project’s overall budget, schedule, regulatory requirements, and client expectations
• Create a plan to organize functional team leaders across CBE Telecoms Nigeria that allows for continuous tracking & evaluating of energy project deployment according to the client’s requirements.
• Take a holistic view of commercial, technical, ESG, regulatory, and legal perspectives to identify project implementation obstacles and find solutions
• Evaluate the technology stack in place to organize information related to project implementation. Identify gaps and communicate requirements to CBE Product team
• Monitor project implementation risk, consulting regularly with project legal, regulatory, health & safety, and commercial experts to implement appropriate mitigation strategies quickly
• Manage and develop CBE Telecoms Nigeria managers, prioritizing coaching and mentorship, skills growth, and instilling the confidence to take on new professional challenges
• Identify high-quality equipment, construction, installation, security, and other partners to help CBE execute successfully on project deployment
• Create and deliver compelling presentations detailing CBE’s implementation progress for clients and investors.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, or other relevant field
• 7+ years of experience in project development, construction management, or infrastructure deployment, including 2+ years in an executive role
• Understanding of common implementation challenges through all phases of telecommunications or distributed infrastructure construction
• Demonstrable business financial understanding and budget experience of multi-million dollar complex projects
• Applied understanding of Mobile Network Operators or TowerCos, and knowledge of industry standard commercial terms for client, supplier, and contractor agreements
• A strong network among active power project developers, suppliers, and construction partners relevant to the telecoms or distributed energy industries, especially in Nigeria
• Commercial skill to facilitate collaboration across multidisciplinary project teams
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.) and able to leverage Project Operations systems to manage large, complex problems effectively.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Qualifications
Ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:

• 7+ years relevant working experience
• 5+ year work experience managing security operations across distributed assets in Nigeria
• Strong knowledge, understanding, and experience of the changing security situation across Nigeria
• Experience developing and managing security policies across colleagues and subcontractors in Nigeria
• Experience working with MNOs and TowerCos in Nigeria
• Interest in and understanding of the telecom sector
• Experience with monitoring and control systems
• Experience initiating and coordinating criminal prosecution with security forces, judiciary, and legal counsel

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 5+ years work experience in security operations management
• Understanding of the security situation and actors across Nigeria
• Experience in security incident management and reporting
• Demonstrated ability to independently supervise multi-stakeholder projects
• Clear effective communicator across diverse audiences
• Writes clearly, professionally, and without grammatical errors
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment and stay calm under pressure.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Who You Are

• Engineer with an in-depth and broad understanding of design principles for hybrid power systems
• Experienced power system modeler and analyst, with experience determining size, storage and system configurations for hybrid power systems
• Self-starter who is passionate about clean energy and its potential to transform frontier markets in Africa
• Entrepreneurial mind who is not afraid of exploring how new technologies can be used to optimize our work and enable us to create robust products
• Capable of applying engineering principles to complex, bespoke problems that require creative thinking
• Comfortable with ambiguity; you are effective in a fast-moving and complex environment that does not have a fixed rule book
• Sound commercial judgement; independently assesses the most economical interventions and considers the long-term view when evaluating the costs and benefits of a potential solution
• A systematic and highly organized project manager; takes personal accountability for tracking numerous activities across workstreams and driving them all to successful conclusion.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Master of Engineering Degree
• 2+ years work experience in either power systems engineering, electrical transmission/distribution networks, building electrical engineering, or electrical generation
• Hybrid sizing, configuring and modelling experience – HOMER (or similar) and/or self-built models
• Understanding of the key components that form part of a hybrid solution
• Solar PV
• Battery storage
• Backup diesel generators
• In depth understanding of AC/DC electrical power systems, power electronics
• Writes clearly, professionally, and with good command of the English language.

Ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:

• Design and construction experience in thermal-hybrid solar PV or solar home systems, especially minigrids and nanogrids, with a top-tier firm
• Deep understanding of battery storage technologies and design of storage solutions
• Extensive knowledge of the state of play of the energy systems market and deep understanding of ‘what’s possible’ in terms of technologies, systems, monitoring and controls
• Experience project managing the delivery of complex engineering projects in African markets
• Good commercial understanding of the solar IPP model including an understanding of project finance
• Interest and understanding of the telecom or towerco industry.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online