Technical Manager – (Conakry, Guinea)

Technical Manager – (Conakry, Guinea)

Our client is a leading provider of power management and protection solutions with over 20 years in the battery and power unit industry.  They are looking to hire a Technical Manager for their offices in Conakry, Guinea.

The role of the Technical Manager is to establish, build and lead on all aspects of the company’s technical, functional areas including, identification of technology, lifecycle maintenance of solutions, identifying and resolving technical issues, training, and knowledge transfer while seeking opportunities for continuous development

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Country CEO, the Technical Manager will build and manage the different Units in the Technical Department and across regions
• To serve as the primary technical contact within the company and with the Technical client representative
• Manage the interaction with other units/regions inside the organization
• To serve as a technical expert representative across teams, clients, and subcontractors.
• To ensure accuracy of drawings, calculations, reports, and most importantly, the validation
• Ensure that work implemented on-site by other departments is done as per ours / Client Specifications
• Suggests corrections in technical solutions and operations to meet contract requirements more efficiently, and more importantly, align with the theoretical fuel consumption
• Defines communication and enforces coding standards and organized work within the technical unit.
• Promotes, coordinates, and transfer technical knowledge and best practices within the organization.
• Lead and drive the development of the technical function in line with the company strategy and business plans, working closely and collaboratively with the Chief Technical Officer if available and the Chief Executive Officer to deliver high-quality programs.
• Provide strong leadership and technical guidance across functional and virtual teams to manage large-scale projects that include application software components and solutions deployed to sites.
• Communicate effectively with functional teams, including Operations and Maintenance, Solutions Management/Production, Testing, Customer Support as well as executive management
• Build, develop and grow the Technical Training Facility, recycling facility, ensuring that consistent and relevant technical training on solutions is delivered

Qualifications

• Solid understanding and hands-on experience in areas such as real-time operating systems, embedded systems, high availability design and development.
• A demonstrable track record of successfully leading, building ad delivering a strategic functional area of an organization
• Strong leadership, control, and people management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French.
• Proficiency in the use of project management tools such as PowerPoint, Excel and Project Plan.
• First Degree in a related course (preferably in Engineering)

• A Master’s degree will be an advantage
• PMP an added advantage
• 20 (Twenty) years’ experience in Telecom, with a strong background in the telecoms industry preferably in Field Operations or Support capacity.
• At least 10 years of technical and managerial experience working with engineering development teams at Director level.
• Experience in emerging markets is an advantage