POWER PLANT COORDINATOR AT LAFARGE AFRICA PLC | PLANT COORDINATOR JOBS IN OGUN

About Company:

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

Job Description:

• Responsible for overseeing power management at Ewekoro, ensuring safe, reliable, and uninterrupted electricity generation and distribution to plant operations and surrounding communities.
• The role includes managing contractual compliance for Wartsila generators, optimizing engine performance and uptime, coordinating scheduled maintenance and major overhauls, and ensuring efficient utilization of resources.
• Additionally, the position requires developing and implementing a robust maintenance master plan for power plant generators.

Key Responsibilities
Health, Safety & Environment:

• Act in accordance with the safety rules and regulations set up by the Group/plants and must be a good example for the employees to follow.
• Create safe work conditions and mobilize all plant employees and on-site contractors on safety at work (behaviors and skills)
• Participate in H&S through VPC and BOG.
• Create enabling environment for the smooth operations of the Wartsila generators.

Contract Development & Negotiation:

• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts with contractors, suppliers, OEMs, service providers, and regulatory bodies.
• Ensure contract terms align with company policies, legal standards, and project goals.
• Define clear deliverables, KPIs, penalties, warranties, and dispute resolution mechanisms.

Contract Administration & Compliance:

• Ensure all parties comply with contractual obligations, timelines, and specifications.
• Monitor performance of vendors and contractors against contractual commitments.
• Manage variations, amendments, and change orders in line with procedures.

Risk Management

• Identify contractual risks (e.g., delivery delays, technical failures, regulatory issues) and develop mitigation plans.
• Ensure insurance, indemnity, and liability clauses adequately protect the plant.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management:

• Serve as the key interface between the plant and external partners, such as EPC contractors, equipment suppliers, utility regulators, and  consultants.
• Resolve disputes and facilitate communication among internal departments and external stakeholders.

Financial Oversight:

• Track contract-related payments, budgets, and milestones.
• Ensure proper billing, invoicing, and cost control as per contract terms.
• Monitor penalties, liquidated damages, bonuses, and incentives as stipulated in the contracts.

Documentation & Reporting:

• Maintain a complete and updated repository of all contracts, amendments, correspondences, and performance records.
• Prepare reports for senior management on contract status, risks, claims, and opportunities.

Claims & Dispute Resolution:

• Lead the preparation, submission, and defense of claims (e.g., time extensions, cost overruns).
• Support or lead dispute resolution processes, including arbitration or litigation if required.

Support to Plant Operations:

• Provide contractual guidance during outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance activities.
• Ensure long-term service agreements (LTSAs), warranty support, and OEM commitments are fulfilled.

Regulatory & Legal Coordination:

• Ensure compliance with local and international laws, environmental regulations, and licensing requirements.
• Liaise with legal teams to address contractual legal matters.

Continuous Improvement:

• Analyze contract outcomes to derive lessons learned.
• Recommend improvements in contracting strategies and practices for future projects

Investments & Initiatives:

• Liaise with the project team to execute projects within the given budgets, time and scope in every aspect as well as the use of standard process and tools.
• Propose and support the implementation of power export to the grid.
• Support the business on power and energy projects with a focus on the development.

Sustainability:

• Ensure a safety culture with the plants and the Wartsila team
• Commit to improve environmental management at all time.
• Ensure long-term sustainability power and energy strategy for Sagamu and Ewekoro plant.
• Lead a proactive power and energy strategies with relevant external stakeholders (authorities and communities, etc.)

Governance:

• Ensure full implementation of regulatory bodies, company goals, local permits, policies and procedures; ensure up-to-date technical documentation; optimize the internal processes and structures.

Who you'll be working with
Internal:

• Plant Manager
• Maintenance Manager
• Electrical Manager
• Production Manager
• Electrical and Instrumentation Manager
• Automation Manager
• Warehouse Manager
• Production Manager
• Plant Controller
• Safety Manager
• New works Manager
• Environmental Manager

External:

• All local Communities
• Regulatory Authorities (SON, NESRA, OGEPA etc.)

Requirements:

• Minimum HND in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 10 years Manufacturing operations
• Excellent Project management skills
• Knowledge of Plant codifications.
• knowledge of Electric power supply management
• Knowledge of Electrical drawings interpretation and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of Programmable logic controller (Allen Bradly & Siemens)
• Knowledge of Instrumentation and Automation programs editing and modification.
• Industrial Automation system certified
• Demonstrated performance in working within cross-functional teams, with requisite drive and energy to ensure that a challenging benefits and capability building agenda is successfully delivered
• Highly effective time management, planning and organization skills; ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities and drive tasks to completion in a fixed time-frame and in a pressured environment.
• Demonstrated broad understanding of the content, processes and optimization channels.
• Ability to deal with ambiguities, conflicts and adversarial relationships
• Ability to assess potential and risks associated with plant operations
• Proven ability in analysis and interpretation of data
• Proven ability to identify problems quickly, make sound judgments, establish and implement solutions.
• Ability to visualize and solve complicated problems in the best way possible and make accurate and informed decisions.

Salary

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