Project and Maintenance Engineer

About the role

The Project & Maintenance Engineer – B2B, Retail and Terminals is responsible for planning, executing and supporting maintenance and construction activities for fuel infrastructure serving commercial and industrial customers across African operating environments.

Key responsibilities

• Plan and execute preventive and corrective maintenance for retail, B2B and terminal fuel assets, including ground fuel sites and LPG facilities.
• Provide technical support for breakdown response, fault diagnosis and permanent repair solutions.
• Deliver construction, installation and upgrade projects for new customer sites, capacity expansions and system modifications.
• Prepare scopes of work, technical specifications, Bills of Quantities (BOQs), cost estimates and schedules.
• Supervise contractors to ensure safe, on‑time, on‑budget delivery to specification.
• Support commissioning, testing and hand‑over of projects to customers and operations.
• Ensure compliance with HSE, petroleum, LPG and environmental regulations; participate in risk assessments and permit‑to‑work systems.
• Support inspection, testing and certification of tanks, pressure vessels and piping, and verify construction quality.
• Coordinate specialist service providers and conduct quarterly contractor performance reviews.
• Track maintenance and project costs against budgets and identify value‑engineering opportunities.
• Act as technical interface with customers and assist commercial teams with proposal inputs.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.
• Experience in maintenance engineering, project delivery and HSE compliance within fuel or related industrial environments.

Required skills

• Preventive and corrective maintenance planning
• Fault diagnosis and repair
• Project management and scheduling
• Technical specification writing and BOQ preparation
• Contractor supervision and coordination
• Commissioning, testing and hand‑over procedures
• HSE compliance, risk assessment and permit‑to‑work
• Inspection, testing and certification of tanks, pressure vessels and piping
• Financial tracking and cost estimation