Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
About the Role:
Sun King is looking for a motivated team member to join our team in driving the adoption of clean energy solutions in South Africa. The incumbent will be facilitating solar installations; from site assessment to system activation, and ensuring compliance with all South African safety regulations and standards.
This role also requires the ability to self-drive a company vehicle to installation sites and other work-related locations.
System Installation
- Assist with electrical installations and related issues related to the grid, solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, inverters, monitoring systems by:
- Digging holes and trenches, planting poles and laying cables in trenches, chasing and cutting walls and concrete floors for conduit, cleaning the working areas.
- Installing and fixing of flush and surface mounted wireways and ancillary equipment installing cables including the fitting of glands, making off and securing such cables.
- Assisting with erecting and joining luminaires; assisting with operating a trenching machine when needed, once trained.
- Work with the engineering team to document electrical system specifications, installation guidelines, and best practices.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and recommend enhancements to streamline installation procedures and minimize electrical issues.
- Disseminate knowledge and expertise with colleagues, installers, and customers to enhance their knowledge of solar electrical systems and promote best practices.
- Assisting the master installation electrician.
- Any other business as assigned by your supervisor.
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Have a Diploma or certificate in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Have a valid South African driver's license.
- Have previous experience in technical and electrical troubleshooting, or the solar energy industry; this is highly desirable.
- Have good knowledge of electrical fundamentals, circuitry, and photovoltaic system component
- Have excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical information clearly and concisely.
- Are familiar with solar PV components, including solar panels, inverters, charge controllers, and batteries.
- Employ a detail-oriented approach to problem-solving and troubleshooting electrical issues.
- Have a good work ethic with a willingness to learn and take initiative.
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Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- 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 Sun Center for Leadership.
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 built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.
Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones.
Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 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.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.
Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.
Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 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 42% of Sun King’s workforce.
