Electrical Engineer Power

Location:

Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

Posted:

January 22, 2021

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GEORGE OFOSU MENSAH

Mobile Number: +233-*********

Email Address: *****************@*****.***

PERSONAL DETAILS

Nationality : Ghanaian

Sex : Male

Marital Status : Single

Spoken Languages : English and Twi

PROFILE

I am a dynamic and self-motivated young man who is passionate about combining the skills of logic with the skills of team work to produce a measurable result. I have the ability of picking up very fast on new jobs. I have a good communication and organizational skills with the ability to work with little or no supervision.

I am an electrical/Electronic engineering graduate with a second-class honours (Upper Division) degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana and have gathered relevant skills from my internship and National service period with GRIDCO.

SKILLS

Ability to work for long hours and independently to meet deadlines.

Efficient and effective team player with the ability to take initiatives and motivate team members.

Excellent ability to pick up on new procedures and new jobs.

A very high desire level of gaining and applying new knowledge in any field of operation.

A very analytical person with a good problem solving skills.

Effective communicator both written and oral.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Electrical Engineer National Service Personnel, Ghana Grid Company Limited, Tema - (September 2018 -July, 2019)

Key contributions:

Assisted engineers in carrying out preventive maintenance works in the various substations.

Assisted the Senior Planning Engineer in providing technical and administrative support for the Department in the areas of maintenance planning, performance reporting and decision making.

Prepares departmental technical reports for management information and decision making.

Collated, managed, calculated and monitored customer data on power transformers to ensure optimum transformer utilization and transformer sizing for a load center.

Calculated and monitored major incident data on average supply and transmission line availability.

Electrical Engineer intern, Ghana Grid Company Limited, Kumasi

(June 2017 – July 2017)

Key contributions:

Assisted electrical engineers to carry out operating work in the substation.

Assisted in carrying out preventive maintenance work at the substation and switchyard with engineers and technicians.

Assisted line maintenance technicians on the field in carrying out line related maintenance works.

Electrical Engineer intern, University of Cape Coast Hospital, Cape Coast

(June 2016 – July 2016)

Key contributions:

Assisted in carrying out preventive maintenance works on the various electrical equipment used in the hospital.

Carrying out of maintenance and inspection works on the hospital’s electricity distribution system.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.

(2014-2018)

BSc. (Honours) Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Key Knowledge gained:

Understanding of the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity.

Equipped with the knowledge of how a power system can be represented to facilitate the assessment of its performance.

Analytical and conceptual thinking.

Better Insight in Load Flow Analysis in Power System.

Understanding of power system operation and control and the underlying principles adopted to ensure effective operation and control of power systems.

Relevant Courses Taken - Circuit Theory, Power System Analysis, High Voltage Engineering, Electromechanical Energy Conversion, and Transformers, Power System Planning and Optimization, Substation Design, and Power System Protection.

Final Year Design Project:

Completed Internet of Things (IoT) project involving the design of a raspberry pi bus stop reminder.

Technology Summary

An intermediate user of Microsoft Word and Excel.

Web Programming.

HOBBIES AND INTEREST

Surfing the internet

Watching movies

Listening to music

REFERENCES

Anthony Godzi

Mgr. Network Maintenance