The West Nile Rural Electrification Company Limited (WENRECo) is an Electric Energy Generation, Distribution & Sales company in the West Nile sub-region, in Northern Uganda. WENRECo is a subsidiary of Industrial Promotion Services (IPS), the industrial development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED).
WENRECo operates a Vertically Integrated off-grid utility involved in generation, distribution, and Sale of Electricity in the West Nile districts of Uganda & was the first off-grid Solution under a Public Private Partnership to qualify for World Bank Carbon Financing.
Reliable and affordable hydro Power Generated from the 3.5MW Nyagak I Mini Hydropower plant has strengthened the West Nile region’s economy in Uganda within sub-Saharan Africa.
WENRECo is a responsible employer committed to providing competitive employment terms to its employees & Ugandans in addition to providing safe and reliable electricity supply, improving customer service, minimizing energy losses, and operating in a cost-effective manner. We seek to recruit dynamic, competent & experienced candidates to fill the following positions.

Job Description
Department: Network Department
Job title: Protection Control & SCADA Engineer
Reports to: Network Manager
Job purpose:
To install, maintain and troubleshoot the SCADA system servers’, workstations’ and substation RTUs’ software and hardware, and SCADA communication links

Responsibilities:
• Developing protection, control, and bulk metering system design for electrical substations on the 33kV voltage profile from conceptual stage through construction and commissioning
• Developing protection planning and application documents, one-lines, schematics, panel layouts and wiring diagrams for power system protective relaying and bulk metering systems
Performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility distribution systems
• Reviewing or preparing engineering drawings/documents, specifications
• Plan and manage outage staging and scheduling
• Protective devices grading and setting to ensure balanced performance with the generation plants
• Configuration and design of the SCADA system and ensuring it is full time operational
Performing factory acceptance tests/inspections of Protection and SCADA equipment
• Configure and administer the SCADA system using the system configuration tools.
• Participate in commissioning of remotely monitored and/or controllable equipment into the SCADA system.
• Implement, maintain, and troubleshoot inter-control centre communication protocol (ICCP) link configuration, for effective communication of SCADA systems between Generation and Network Operators
• Train other SCADA system users.