Background

Lungisa Solutions is seeking an Operations Manager responsible for the overall planning, coordination and control of all operations across their services: solar, electrical, general maintenance, and construction equipment hire.

Key responsibilities:

1. Operational Planning & Execution: Planning and scheduling daily/weekly work orders, and efficiently allocating teams, vehicles, tools, and materials to sites. This also includes overseeing plant & equipment hire operations.

2. Technical & Quality Oversight: Reviewing and approving designs/BOQs for solar and electrical jobs, and ensuring installations comply with standards. This also covers implementing quality control checks and sign-off procedures.

3. People Management: Supervising a team of at least 10 technical staff, handling performance management, and conducting daily toolbox talks and weekly operations meetings.

4. Customer Relations & Commercial Support: Conducting site visits, supporting the preparation of quotations, tracking the sales pipeline, and managing escalated customer complaints.

5. Asset & Inventory Management: Maintaining records and ensuring preventative maintenance for all construction equipment, and controlling tools, spares, consumables, vehicle utilization, and fuel.

6. Safety, Compliance & Documentation: Implementing and enforcing HSE policies, ensuring proper PPE, maintaining project documentation (e.g., job cards, as-built records), and ensuring statutory and company policy compliance.

7. Continuous Improvement: Identifying and implementing process improvements to reduce turnaround time, costs, and rework, and providing regular operational reports and KPIs to management.

Requirements:

A Diploma or Degree in Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field is required.

Experience in operations or project management within a solar/electrical/construction/maintenance environment is an advantage.

Valid driver's license, willingness to travel frequently between sites, strong customer relations, and basic financial/commercial understanding.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Planning and scheduling daily/weekly work orders, and efficiently allocating teams, vehicles, tools, and materials to sites.
• Overseeing plant & equipment hire operations.
• Reviewing and approving designs/BOQs for solar and electrical jobs.
• Ensuring installations comply with standards.
• Implementing quality control checks and sign-off procedures.
• Supervising a team of at least 10 technical staff.
• Handling performance management.
• Conducting daily toolbox talks and weekly operations meetings.
• Conducting site visits.
• Supporting the preparation of quotations.
• Tracking the sales pipeline.
• Managing escalated customer complaints.
• Maintaining records and ensuring preventative maintenance for all construction equipment.
• Controlling tools, spares, consumables, vehicle utilization, and fuel.
• Implementing and enforcing HSE policies.
• Ensuring proper PPE.
• Maintaining project documentation (e.g., job cards, as-built records).
• Ensuring statutory and company policy compliance.
• Identifying and implementing process improvements to reduce turnaround time, costs, and rework.
• Providing regular operational reports and KPIs to management.

• Operational Planning
• Team Management
• Quality Control
• Customer Relations
• Asset Management
• Inventory Management
• HSE Policy Implementation
• Process Improvement
• Reporting and KPI analysis
• Basic financial/commercial understanding

• Diploma or Degree in Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in operations or project management within a solar/electrical/construction/maintenance environment is an advantage.
• Valid driver's license.
• Willingness to travel frequently between sites.
• Strong customer relations.
• Basic financial/commercial understanding.