CAPEX, Projects Engineer at Louis Dreyfus Company

Your main responsibilities:

Capex & Project Lifecycle Management

Project Execution: Initiate and deliver Capex projects (Asset Improvement, SHE, Maintenance, Discretionary) up to $5M annually. Ensure full compliance with LDC internal gate reviews (Platform, Engineering, Procurement, SHE/PSM, Risk, IT, Legal) and regulatory frameworks.

Contractor & Stakeholder Leadership: Serve as the primary liaison between contractors, consultants, and internal teams during design, construction, and commissioning.

Benefits Realization & Handover: Oversee seamless project handovers to Operations and Maintenance while tracking initial assumptions, cost savings, and ROI with Commercial and Finance teams.

Strategic Procurement & Sourcing

End-to-End Sourcing: Manage market research, supplier pre-qualification (KYC), TCO-based RFP/RFQ evaluations, contract negotiations, and vendor performance monitoring for over 100 suppliers.

Procure-to-Pay Governance: Oversee purchase requisitions, material receipts, contract completion certificates, and claims management while partnering with Finance and Control.

Operations, Maintenance & Asset Integrity

Preventative & Corrective Maintenance: Drive high operational availability, yield, and safety for critical assets (boilers, weighbridges, utilities, and electro-mechanical systems).

Workshop & Infrastructure Setup: Establish a standard electromechanical workshop and manage asset life cycles, including the disposal of obsolete equipment.

Inventory Control: Monitor maintenance stores, spare part reorder thresholds, and fuel/water utility levels to ensure complete inventory accuracy.

Safety, Energy & Budgetary Compliance

Financial Oversight: Manage annual Capex/Opex maintenance budgets, control KPIs (committed vs. spent, overruns), and execute cost-saving/waste-elimination strategies.

SHE, PSM & Energy Leadership: Serve as Asset Energy Officer to lead annual energy audits and drive sustainability goals. Actively enforce safety regulations, risk assessments, and incident prevention.

People Management & Continuous Improvement

Team Leadership: Supervise, schedule, and evaluate maintenance staff (including janitorial teams), enforce training, and manage overtime.

Process Optimization: Implement QMS standards, best-practice maintenance frameworks, and data-driven root-cause analyses to resolve system losses and boost overall plant reliability.

Qualifications

Your profile:

Experience: 5-8 years experience in a bulk storage terminal or warehouse, port operations, processing plant or similar experience.

Knowledge: good background in food industry, construction, maintenance and projects management in a manufacturing or logistics environment, import/export port operations, continuous improvement initiatives, root cause analysis, managing teams.

Education:

Degree certificate in Electrical/Mechanical/Civil/Industrial Engineering, Projects Management or a relevant field. Master’s certificate will be an added advantage. Additional certification such as Certified Energy Manager, Project Management Professional is highly desired.

Languages: English / Kiswahili

Systems / Applications: Terminal Management Automation and Control Systems, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Power, Water, MEP, Project Management and Scheduling Systems, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Design Systems (AutoCAD, Solid Works)

Technical / Functional skills:

Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety and comprehensive knowledge in the regulations and code of practice

Knowledge of Hazard Management principles

Accident investigation skills and preparation of comprehensive report with recommendations

Aptitude for understanding the risks and precautions associated with the equipment in their area of responsibility

Proven management skills with the ability to optimize team performance and development

Highly skilled communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally

Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills

Proven analytical, problem solving and organizational skills

Strong planning skills with the ability to handle multiple projects through to completion and to manage competing priorities

Project management skills

Conflict management skills

Commercial and financial acumen with a full understanding of the impact of failure in terms of business cost, production schedules and customer order fulfilment

Excellent attention to details

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office

Familiarity with ISO procedures such as ISO 9001 and how to internally audit processes

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