KickStart
International Inc.
Vacant
Position: Technical Intern
Function: Product Innovation and
Development
Location: KickStart Kariobangi
Office - Nairobi.
Type of Contract: Internship
Scope of Role: Type of Contract: Internship
Reports to: Manager, Product Intelligence and Development
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Works with: Technicians and trained casuals
Nature
and Scope:
- To
performs routine photovoltaic (PV) system maintenance on modules, arrays,
batteries, power conditioning equipment, safety systems, structural
systems, weather sealing, or balance of systems equipment.
- To
install active solar systems, including pumps.
- Assemble
solar arrays, panels, or support structures, as specified.
- To
activate photovoltaic (PV) systems to verify system functionality and
conformity to performance expectations.
- Check
electrical installation for proper wiring, polarity, grounding, or
integrity of terminations.
- Identify
installation locations with proper orientation, area, solar access, or
structural integrity for photovoltaic (PV) arrays.
- Test
operating voltages to ensure operation within acceptable limits for power
conditioning equipment, such as controllers
- Identify
methods for laying out, orienting, and mounting modules or arrays to
ensure efficient installation, electrical configuration, or system
maintenance.
- Determine
photovoltaic (PV) system designs or configurations based on factors such
as customer needs, expectations, and site conditions.
- Install
required labels on solar system components and hardware.
- Supervise
practical tests giving key results which feed into design iteration.
- Have
a particular role in numerical analysis of strength and performance
Qualifications
and Experience
- Final
year graduate Engineer.
- Mechatronic
/ Electrical and Electronic Engineering / solar / Energy and Renewables
background.
Skills
and Behaviour
- Design
work should result in products which meet all the strength, durability,
cost, ergonomics, and other criteria defined by design criteria approval
which has been facilitated by the product manager function.
- Identify
electrical, environmental, and safety hazards associated with photovoltaic
(PV) installations.
- Work
carried out in the workshop should be supervised to standards of
craftsmanship which meet or exceed accuracy and tolerances achievable by
downstream manufacturing.
- Test
standards for solar pumps should be rigorous, efficient, and unambiguous
so as neither to lower KickStart’s high organizational standards nor to
use excessive staff time through redundant operations.
- Supervision
of material provision and usage should be carried out to optimise
KickStart’s cash efficiency, and prevent time loss through absence of
critical materials.
- He/she
is sensitive, during the course of development, to the feelings and
opinions of potential users of the technology, and proactively cultivates
relationships which allow these opinions to be transmitted.
- The
incumbent should cooperate with the PID Manager and the workshop team to
ensure nationally legislated standards of safety are met or exceeded
How to
Apply
If you
feel you are the right candidate for this job, please send your CV and Cover
letter to hr@kickstart.org quoting the position title on the subject line by
COB 13th May, 2016
