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Senior Solar Installation and Maintenance Technician - Togo

Sun King

Sun King

Togo
Posted on Mar 14, 2025

The role & Opportunities

Sun King is looking for a Senior Solar Installation and Maintenance Technician to support the Solar Inverter installations, maintenance, repairs, and improve product performance and services. Build installations to set levels effectively in compliance with best practices, ensuring installation efficiency can be met within a safe, well-presented facility. Respond to technical issues affecting product performance, and maintain electrical and mechanical services through planned preventive maintenance. This role will be a key point of contact for the Sales team, cross-functional departments, and customers for after-sales and service queries. This role will work with all the stakeholders within Company and key stakeholders on the customer side for service queries and builds smooth relations with internal & external customers to obtain their loyalty to achieve best-in-class customer satisfaction.

You will have the opportunity to work cross-functionally to find solutions for our customers, including product replacement requests, warranty claims, troubleshooting, logistics, and service training. If you are an excellent communicator with an obsession with customer satisfaction, this role is for you!
Department
Operations
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
Togo
Workplace type
Onsite

What you would be expected to do

· Installation & Service: Attend Installations request, and service queries, identify faults, and resolve the issue with minimum downtime. Build and manage the installer & technician network. Develop a schedule, and carry out planned maintenance for the Inverter.







Quality Assurance:


· Ensure standard and timely installation of solar inverter products in compliance with company and national standards.


· Perform regular system and process audits to identify improvement opportunities.


· Monthly installation audits and installer reviews.


· Lead the diagnosis and resolution of complex technical inverter issues.


· Ensure compliance with safety standards and regulatory requirements during all service activities.


· Provide expert guidance to service teams and customers on the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of solar inverters.


· Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to address recurring technical issues and provide feedback for improvements.


Customer Service:


· Ensure excellent aftersales services for all inverter customers.


· Manage and resolve escalated customer complaints.


· Ensure all customer inquiries are responded to and resolved effectively.


· Provide expert customer support, addressing inquiries and resolving issues related to inverter systems internally, virtually, and on-site.


· Ensure timely closure of all warranty claims and replacement requests.


· Ensure timely diagnostics and repairs on all customer returns while maintaining a report on all practical issues and actions.


· Ensure seamless warranty claims and replacement processes.


Record Keeping, Data Analysis and Reporting:


· Maintain accurate date records on all practical issues and actions.


· Perform data analysis to identify trends, improve processes, and enhance customer experiences.


· Provide periodic reports to management on the inverter activities.


· Maintain detailed service records and generate technical reports


Drive Operational Efficiency:


· Develop and implement service protocols, including preventive maintenance strategies.


· Develop, implement, and maintain (SOPs) for inverter processes.


· Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to address recurring challenges and drive continuous improvement initiatives.


· Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry advancements to enhance service delivery.


Training:


· Management of the Sun King Installer Academy


· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote product education.


· Provide mentorship and training to junior service engineers and technical staff.


· Build training materials on installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and repairs


· Conduct advanced technical training for inverter installers, partners, and internal teams

Systems and process design:
· Coordinate with technology teams to ensure company systems meet customer service needs, including applications. Develop new processes to transform current service operations more efficiently.
Training: Build training materials and hold training for partners/ customers about product troubleshooting, repairs, installation, and replacement processes when requested. Develop a thorough knowledge of the product and service the company your work for is offering.
● Any other business as assigned by your supervisor.

You might be a strong candidate if you

  • Top marks at a top 5 Regional or Globally recognized universities with a degree in engineering or other relevant disciplines.
    ● An advanced degree is welcome
    5 + experience in after-sales services support in the electronic consumer goods/ Solar Inverter system and mobile industry.
    ● Strong knowledge of solar inverter systems, installation, troubleshooting and maintenance processes.
    ● Strong knowledge of solar PV systems, electrical wiring standards, and power electronics.
    ● Proficiency in diagnostic tools, software, and remote monitoring platforms.
    Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to distill information and understand how to communicate to different audiences to get results.
    Passionate about customer service and resolving issues
    ● The ability to maintain calm under pressure
    Efficiency and organizational skills
    Critical Thinker: Very strong ability to structure problems and drive towards solutions even in ambiguous situations
    Entrepreneurial Spirit with qualities of being able to work independently and figure things out with innovative thinking, problem-solving skills, and presence of mind.
    ● Demonstrates humility
    Driven by the social mission to provide energy to consumers and employment to rural communities. Should be a value-driven individual.

    We are looking for someone who is driven, passionate, and excited about the opportunity to bring honest, affordable energy to homes in Africa. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

Sun King offers competitive compensation, annual performance reviews, weekly professional development chats, a fun, supportive work environment, free lunch, medical insurance, a workplace accident scheme, and opportunities for continued professional career growth within a fast-growing global enterprise.
Sun King believes in equal opportunity for all people: We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/AIDS status, or disability


About Sun King

Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.

Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.