Regional Service Centre Technician
Sun King
Kenya
Posted on Oct 21, 2025
Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About the role:
The role holder will be in charge of providing high-quality technical assistance and repairs to walk-in customers and partners at regional experiential centres. This role will also assist inventory quality control, enhance the technical capacity of sales and assist teams, and contribute to improved customer satisfaction and reduced warranty costs. The technician will play a critical role in maintaining operational efficiency, driving service revenue, and implementing continuous product and process improvements at the service center level.
About the role:
The role holder will be in charge of providing high-quality technical assistance and repairs to walk-in customers and partners at regional experiential centres. This role will also assist inventory quality control, enhance the technical capacity of sales and assist teams, and contribute to improved customer satisfaction and reduced warranty costs. The technician will play a critical role in maintaining operational efficiency, driving service revenue, and implementing continuous product and process improvements at the service center level.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Head of Clean Cooking
What you would be expected to do:
Repairs & Technical assistance
- Diagnose and repair Sun King products for walk-in customers at the service centre - EBD/Partnership.
- Ensure timely, accurate and quality repair.
- Conduct accurate troubleshooting and screening while documenting all diagnoses and repairs in internal trackers.
- Adhere to established SOPs to ensure repair consistency and quality.
Customer Engagement & Education
- Provide basic product education and preventive maintenance guidance to walk-in customers.
- Offer troubleshooting assistance and usage tips to reduce future product misuse.
- Drive customer satisfaction by ensuring a professional assistance experience.
Inventory & Spare Parts Management
- Maintain 100% accuracy of service centre inventory, including tracking of all harvested, received and consumed spare parts.
- Track and report monthly spare part consumption
Quality Assurance & Control
- Conduct on-demand quality checks on shop stock and field returns.
- Highlight trends and improvement opportunities based on recurring product faults and repair data.
Records & Data Management
- Keep accurate, updated trackers for attendance, repair data, spare parts usage, and service claims.
- Monthly service centre reporting and data evaluation.
Process Improvement
- Work with internal teams to improve service center operations and workflows.
- Recommend and implement process enhancements for operational efficiency.
- Perform any other tasks as assigned by your supervisor (s).
Inverter customer assistance on need basis
- Provide inverter customer assistance on a need basis.
- Conduct warranty assistance visits to customer sites as required.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues related to solar inverter systems.
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Hold a bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy, or a related field; EPRA licenses (T1/T2/T3) are an added advantage.
- Possess a minimum 3 years of experience in after-sales service assistance, troubleshooting, and repair of electronic or solar products.
- Demonstrate proven customer service and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly.
- Are proficient in technical diagnostic tools and software, with a strong problem-solving mindset.
- Demonstrate high integrity, attention to detail, and accountability in handling repairs and spare parts.
- Show willingness to travel for on-site service operations (up to 50%) and work both alone and as a team.
What we offer:
- An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast growing, high impact industry;
- The chance to work in an open minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Greenlighters who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world;
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds. Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Greenlight Academy.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
We believe that diversity (of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, personality type, perspective, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different) enriches innovation and our competitiveness in the market.
We strive to ensure diverse perspectives inform critical decisions, and we actively work towards ensuring all Greenlighters feel like they belong. We also know that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Greenlight recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes individuals based on experiences and demonstrated job performance, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/AIDS status, disability, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.
We believe that diversity (of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, personality type, perspective, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different) enriches innovation and our competitiveness in the market.
We strive to ensure diverse perspectives inform critical decisions, and we actively work towards ensuring all Greenlighters feel like they belong. We also know that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Greenlight recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes individuals based on experiences and demonstrated job performance, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, HIV/AIDS status, disability, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.
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.
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.
