TEAM LEAD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Job
Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day
Salary:
Attractive
Job Deadline: 10 July 2026
Number of Jobs: 01
Hiring Entity: Yalelo Uganda
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| Yalelo Uganda |
Location: In Uganda
Job Details:
Reports to: ENGINEERING MANAGER
Department: ENGINEERING
Grade: M2
Direct Reports:
- Electrical Engineer
- Electrical Supervisor
- Electrical technicians
- Electrical Graduate trainees
JOB OVERVIEW:
The Electrical Engineering Team Leader will provide end-to-end leadership of all electrical engineering functions across Yalelo Uganda operations. The role ensures high plant availability, safe and reliable electrical infrastructure, and successful execution of expansion projects. It leads a team including Electrical Engineer, Electrical Supervisor, Technicians, and Graduate Trainees while driving safety, compliance, reliability, and engineering governance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Electrical Infrastructure Leadership & Reliability
- Lead electrical maintenance and reliability programs across production, cold rooms, ice plants, hatcheries, and utilities.
- Ensure continuous power availability and system stability.
- Oversee troubleshooting of complex electrical failures affecting production.
- Ensure preventive maintenance planning for critical systems.
- Expansion Projects & Infrastructure Development
- Lead electrical works for plant expansion, cold rooms, ice plants, and distribution upgrades.
- Review designs, BOQs, and contractor works.
- Ensure commissioning and handover of installations.
- Coordinate multiple parallel projects under tight timelines.
- Safety, Compliance & ERA Requirements
- Ensure compliance with ERA licensing requirements.
- Drive closure of safety audit findings.
- Enforce LOTO, PTW systems, and electrical safety standards.
- Lead incident investigations.
- Asset Reliability & RCA
- Support and improve existing preventive and predictive maintenance systems.
- Lead RCA for major failures.
- Address overloads, power instability, and equipment breakdowns and load analysis profile update.
- Energy Management
- Optimize energy usage.
- Manage load balancing and generator dependency.
- Lead the energy committee and follow up strategies
- Leadership & Coaching
- Supervise and develop electrical engineering team with clear succession plans.
- Build technical capability and accountability.
- Conduct performance management within the team.
- Champion annual site electrical safety audits
- Administration & Governance
- Manage electrical budgets and maintenance records.
- Support audits and compliance reporting.
- Ensure critical spare parts availability.
REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS, TRAINING & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
- ERA licensed engineer.
- 7–10 years industrial experience.
- 3–5 years supervisory experience.
- Strong MV/LV systems experience.
- Vast Experience in the following regulations: BS7671, National Regulatory Authority (ERA), National Regulatory Authority (IEC standards), Uganda National Grid standards
Application procedure
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Please send the application, CV & academic documents as one pdf document to: careers@yalelo.ug, clearly specifying the job position in the subject line. The closing date for receiving applications is 10th July 2026
Posting Date: 2026-06-29
