Electromechanical Specialist at Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB)( Deadline: 17/02/2026)
Job responsibilities
• Provides senior-level technical leadership, strategic oversight, and quality assurance across all electromechanical systems and schemes.
• Reports to Irrigation & Water Use Specialist Team Leader and supports Project Management Team.
• Leads, approves, and provides strategic guidance on electromechanical designs, standards, and guidelines.
• Conducts advanced diagnostics, reviews contractor designs, oversees testing & commissioning, and ensures compliance with international standards.
• Develops preventive maintenance strategies, operational protocols, and system performance indicators. • Supervises consulting engineers, contractors, field engineers, and scheme-based staff.
• Introduces new technologies (SCADA, automation, solar pumping, energy efficiency) and leads modernization initiatives.
• Designs advanced training programs for engineers, technicians, and WUAs; mentors electromechanical engineers.
• Ensures system-wide quality assurance, compliance with safety, environmental, and technical standards across all project schemes.
• Reviews, validates, and approves feasibility studies, design reports, BOQs, and cost estimates from consultants.
• High-level supervision, review of shop drawings/method statements, and enforcement of contract technical compliance.
• Leads compliance efforts, ensures documentation integrity, mitigates risks, and strengthens internal controls.
• Conducts system-level risk assessments, develops mitigation strategies, and ensures safety protocol enforcement.
• Leads cross-disciplinary collaboration on infrastructure, irrigation, watershed, and energy aspects.
• Produces high-level technical reports, knowledge products, manuals, and contributes to strategic planning.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering-5 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering-3 Years of relevant experience
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering-0 Year of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering-5 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture Mechanization-5 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s Degree in Agriculture Mechanization-3 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture Engineering-5 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s degree in Agriculture Engineering-3 Years of relevant experience
- Master’s degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering-3 Years of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Mechanical and manufacturing engineering with at least second class upper division-5 Years of relevant experience
Required competencies and key technical skills
- Digital literacy skills
- Ability to convey ideas clearly and concisely
- Verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
- Conflict resolution skills
- Team work and team building skills;
- Accuracy and attention to details
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality
- Confidentiality, ethical and teamwork skills;
- Good interpersonal skills, detail orientated, integrity, confidentiality proper planning and organization skills;
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- High integrity and professional ethical standards
- Ability to work under minimal supervision
- Ability to work with confidential or sensitive information with discretion
- High sense of responsibility and integrity
- Ability to be proactive, self-motivated, and self-directed
Psychometric Languages
- Kinyarwanda
- English
- Français
Psychometric Domains
- Critical thinking- Competence / Skills
- Problem solving- Competence / Skills
- Decision making- Competence / Skills
- Analytical skills- Competence / Skills
- Time management- Competence / Skills
- Knowledge/Awareness- Behavior and attitude
- Perceptual Speed and Accuracy- Behavior and attitude
- Attention and concentration- Behavior and attitude
- Fluid intelligence- Behavior and attitude
- Emotion induction- Behavior and attitude
- Self-report measures- Behavior and attitude
- Behavioral observations- Behavior and attitude
- Patience- Behavior and attitude
- Empathy- Behavior and attitude
- Time for reaction- Behavior and attitude
- Coordination- Behavior and attitude
- Assertiveness- Communication skills
- Clear and Effective Communication- Communication skills
- Conflict Resolution- Communication skills
- Adaptability and Flexibility- Communication skills
- Influence and Persuasion- Communication skills
- Cross-Cultural Communication- Communication skills
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