Electrical & Automation Engineer (PLC/SCADA)
Engineering
K sh 200,000 – 340,000 gross / month
Openings: 1 Location: Nairobi – Syokimau (Mombasa Rd / Katani link, metro belt) Overview: Production waits for no one, and neither will your control systems. As an Electrical & Automation Engineer, you’ll be the guardian of PLC logic, VFD tuning, and SCADA dashboards, ensuring lines hum and utilities stay stable. Expect hands-on wiring, clean panels, and kaizen-style problem-solving with operators, the kind of work where every trip avoided saves both time and cash. You’ll implement safety interlocks, e-stops, and guards that protect people and machines alike, while digitizing downtime codes that finance can actually trust. Calibrating instruments, maintaining historian tags, and keeping panels spotless aren’t just chores; they’re part of the rhythm that makes the plant predictable and resilient. In short, this is a role where your technical chops meet strategic impact. You’ll drive unplanned-trip reductions, faster repairs, and data-driven decisions while coaching cross-functional teams to treat automation not as a black box, but as a tool for reliability, efficiency, and safe production. Key Responsibilities: - Maintain PLCs (Siemens/Allen-Bradley), HMIs, SCADA & historian tags. - Tune VFDs/servos; protect motors; manage harmonics/power quality. - Implement safety interlocks, e-stops, guards; own change control. - Capture/digitize downtime reasons; publish loss trees and fixes. - Calibrate instruments (flow/temp/level/pressure). - Manage drawings, panel hygiene, and critical spares. Education & Experience: - BSc Electrical/Mechatronics; 4–7 yrs automation in process/discrete plants. Skills & Tools: - PLC/HMI, SCADA, networks, instrumentation, and electrical safety. KPIs: - Unplanned trips ↓, downtime captured, safety incidents, and mean time to repair. Compensation (Kenya): KES 200,000–340,000 + annual bonus. Figures are client estimates and vary with stack & scale. Benefits: - Medical, pension, on-call allowance, training (OEM courses). Growth Path: - Senior E&A Engineer → Automation Lead → Head of Engineering. Ideal promotion cycle.