VINCENT KWAME OSEI-APPIAH
DANSOMAN
Summary
Dynamic Regional Project Engineer with extensive experience at the Electricity Company of Ghana, excelling in project management and operational efficiency. Proven track record in enhancing system reliability and customer satisfaction through strategic planning and effective communication. Skilled in power engineering and committed to safety practices, driving successful project outcomes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Project Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
10.2022 - Current
- Preparing monthly Engineering and Operations report for onward submission to head office through the Regional Engineer.
- Planning, designing, initiating and implementing all capital projects aimed at improving system reliability and ensuring quality supply to ensure a high customer satisfaction index using the PS-SAP system.
- Preparing contract award letters and contract agreements for further action by the Regional Engineer.
- Supervising and inspecting all awarded, on-going and completed projects within the Region to ensure strict compliance and adherence to ECG constructional standards by all contractors (Third-parties) and to recommend payments after completion of works.
- Preparing project status reports and ensuring the application of all acceptable project management practices to reduce WIPs within the Region.
- Preparing annual Engineering and Operations Budget.
District Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
02.2020 - 10.2022
- Ensuring the prompt response to and the clearance of all system faults within the district, both underground and overhead at Low voltage and 11kV levels.
- Preparing and ensuring the strict adherence to Routine Maintenance charts on substation equipment, overhead line and underground networks to minimize faults that can result in long outage durations.
- Ensuring that all transformers within the district are monitored at least twice a year to ascertain the load on them and take appropriate further actions on the load details to avoid transformer damage or burn-out especially due to overloading.
- Initiating and raising project proposals for system improvements, upgrades and injection of transformers where necessary to ensure quality, reliable and safe power supply to customers. (Achieved excellent reliability indices)
- Supervising and inspecting all approved, on-going and completed projects within the district to ensure all the ECG constructional standards are adhered to by all contractors (Third-parties) and to recommend payments after completion of works.
- Preparation of weekly and monthly reports on all operational activities for on-ward submission to the Regional Office.
- Ensuring zero accidents and near misses within the district by organizing weekly safety meetings for all staff using the company's operations procedure and safety manuals as a guide as the Safety Officer of the district.
Ag. District Manager
Power Distribution Services/ECG
04.2019 - 01.2020
- Ensuring 100% collection of sales revenues within the District.
- Ensuring continuous supply and availability of power to all customers.
- Implementing and ensuring all company core values and ethics are adhered to.
- Ensuring industrial harmony between all staff.
- Ensuring the enrollment of all senior staff onto the Performance Management System through target setting, reviews and appraisals yearly.
- Ensuring high network availability and operational efficiency.
- Ensuring the provision and supply of all logistics and materials needed at all sections within the District.
- Ensuring the reduction of commercial and technical losses to the barest minimum.
- Ensuring the continuous improvement of skills and capability building of all staff through training.
District Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
03.2013 - 03.2019
- Ensuring the prompt response to and the clearance of all system faults within the district, both underground and overhead at Low voltage and 11kV levels.
- Preparing and ensuring the strict adherence to Routine Maintenance charts on substation equipment, overhead line and underground networks to minimize faults that can result in long outage durations.
- Ensuring that all transformers within the district are monitored at least twice a year to ascertain the load on them and take appropriate further actions on the load details to avoid transformer damage or burn-out especially due to overloading.
- Initiating and raising project proposals for system improvements, upgrades and injection of transformers where necessary to ensure quality, reliable and safe power supply to customers. (Achieved excellent reliability indices)
- Supervising and inspecting all approved, on-going and completed projects within the district to ensure all the ECG constructional standards are adhered to by all contractors (Third-parties) and to recommend payments after completion of works.
- Preparation of weekly and monthly reports on all operational activities for on-ward submission to the Regional Office.
- Ensuring zero accidents and near misses within the district by organizing weekly safety meetings for all staff using the company's operations procedure and safety manuals as a guide as the Safety Officer of the district.
Substation M'tce Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
05.2012 - 03.2013
- Ensuring the Maintenance and safety of all substation equipment and accessories within the Accra West Region through the strict adherence to the Annual Maintenance Chart.
- Ensuring that Routine Inspections and House Keeping activities are carried out at all distribution substations within the Region and anomalies detected such as leaking transformers, stolen earth wire, cracked bushings etc. are worked on through plan maintenance activities.
- Ensuring the carrying out of all necessary tests on transformers, switchgears and other accessories before they are commissioned into the system either as replacement or new projects.
- Preparing weekly and monthly report on all substation maintenance activities for on-ward submission.
- Keeping accurate data on all installed and retired substation equipment within the network as at when they are done.
Engineering Trainee
Electricity Company of Ghana
01.2011 - 05.2012
- Carrying out switching Operations on 11kV and 33kV networks.
- Carrying out switching operations using the SCADA system in the central control room.
- Carrying out partial and total isolation on portions of the network as stated in the Request for Isolation document and issuing Permit to Work to be person in-charge of work at site stating all isolated points.
- Carrying out all other assigned functions as a Control Engineer.
Operations & Sales Engineer
SFA Limited
08.2008 - 12.2010
- Preparing estimates and quotations for prospective customers.
- Representing the company at meetings.
- Supervising sales and supply of company products (transformers, switches, AVR, cables etc.).
- Scouting for jobs for the company which led to the award of contracts from companies such as Kuku properties, Melcom Gh. Ltd, Metalex Group and Plessey Gh. Ltd.
- Liaising between the client and the final service provider.
NSP
Electricity Company of Ghana
10.2007 - 08.2008
- Assisting in the writing of proposals and preparation of estimates for both rechargeable and development jobs.
- Assisting in the design and construction of both LV and HT networks to improve power system reliability and supply.
- Attending to faults registered from the call centre.
- Attending to customer complaints in the absence of the District Engineer.
- Assisting in the preparation of monthly reports for the district to give an indication of the system performance within the month.
Education
MPhil - Procurement Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Kumasi11.2023
MSc. - Energy and Sustainable Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Kumasi11.2021
MBA - Supply Chain Management Option
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
06.2020
Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
12.2017
BSc. - Electrical/Electronic Engineering
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology
Kumasi06-2007
SSSCE Certificate - General Science
Mfantsipim School
Cape Coast12.2002
Skills
- Power Engineering
- Energy Management
- Sustainable Management Practices
- Procurement
- Logistics
- Transport Management
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Occupational Health
- Safety Practices
- Environmental Practices
- Complex Instructions
- Microsoft Office
- PowerPoint
- Internet Concepts
- Cost Cutting
- Operational Efficiency
- Project Management
- High Working Standards
- Safety Commitment
- Communication Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Economic Information Interpretation
- Financial Information Interpretation
- Report Writing
- Presentation Skills
Accomplishments
- Selected as a panelist to represent MOBA 2002 to speak on infrastructure at the annual MOBA engagement series held in September, 2022.
- Appointed Director of Operations, Marketing & Sponsorship of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Ghana Chapter from April to December, 2021.
- Elected member of the Membership Committee of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) in June, 2020 to June, 2021.
- Participated in the first ever PMI Exam Development Workshop in Africa, Accra -Ghana in 2020.
- Elected Regional Secretary of the Senior Staff Union (SSU/ECG), Accra West Region in 2019 till date.
- Acted as District Manager of DANSOMAN DISTRICT for close to 10 months and achieved high marks on my KPIs.
- Member of 12No. Accident and Technical investigation committees since 2013.
- Selected Best Supervisor (Dansoman District)-2013, Best Operations staff (Dansoman District)-2014 and Overall Best Worker (Dansoman District)-2015.
- Have been the pace setter in the handling of minor HT faults by districts instead of the region as a means of reducing outage time during 11kV faults.
- Have helped to greatly improve system reliability and quality of supply by initiating and implementing system improvement, upgrading, injection projects as well as the creation of redundant circuits in both the LV and 11kV networks to reduce outage durations and improve operational flexibility and efficiency.
- Have ensured strict adherence to safety practices and procedures which has led to zero (0) accidents or near misses for the past nine (9) years as a District Engineer and now as a Project Engineer.
Training And Seminars Attended
- Total Quality Management (TQM) and ISO 9001:2008 Awareness, 03/08/2012 - 03/10/2012, Messrs. Thundersafe Engineering, ECG Training Centre, Tema
- Project Management Professional Course (PMP), 09/07/2013 - 12/14/2013, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), GIMPA, Accra Campus
- Workplace Safety & Occupational Health, 08/25/2015 - 08/26/2015, Messrs Thundersafe Engineering, ECG Training Centre, Tema
- Implementation of Operations and Maintenance Management System Project, 09/01/2015 - 09/04/2015, Electricity Company of Ghana, E. C. G. Training Centre, Tema
- Commercial Management System (CMS) Training for District Engineers, 02/09/2016 - 02/10/2016, Electricity Company of Ghana, E. C. G. Training Centre, Tema
- Technical Report Writing, 05/11/2016 - 05/12/2016, Ghana Institution of Engineers, Engineers Centre, Roman Ridge
- Project Management Professional Training (PMBOK 5th Edition), 06/06/2016 - 06/10/2016, Knowledge Tree Technologies (KTT), KTT Training Centre, Osu
- Infra-Red Imaging and Reporting, 08/10/2017 - 08/11/2017, SATIR EUROPE(IRELAND) CO. LTD., E. C. G. Training Centre, Tema
- Monitoring and Evaluation, 06/14/2019 - 06/15/2019, MiDA through CRESOL CONSULT., Fiesta Royale Hotel, Accra
- CPR, AED and Basic First Aid training and Certification., 08/01/2019 - 08/02/2019, MiDA through SAFE SOLUTIONS, USA, Golden Tulip Hotel, Accra
- Workshop on Change management for ECG Managers, 11/06/2019 - 11/07/2019, Palladium Group Gh.Ltd., Golden Tulip Hotel, Kumasi
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 07/23/83
References
- Mr. William Boateng, Director of Communications, ECG, HEAD OFFICE, -0264-260252, 9:00am to 4pm, Monday-Friday
- Dr. Ernest Kissi, Senior Lecturer, KNUST, CTM DEPARMENT, -0243-989661, 9:00am to 5pm, Monday-Friday
- Prof. Degraft Owusu-Manu, Associate Professor, KNUST, CTM DEPARMENT, -0243-555882, 8:00am to 4pm, Monday-Friday
Training
- Project Management, 10/25/2023 - 10/28/2023, Project Management Institute., Georgia World Congress Centre, Atalanta Georgia, USA
- International Federation of Supply Chain Management (IFPSM), 09/07/2013 - 12/14/2013, International Federation of Supply Chain Management (IFPSM), Florence, Italy
Research Papers
- Managing System Losses to Improve Energy Efficiency within the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited., PUBLISHED
- Assessing the Impact of Early Supplier Involvement on Public Works Procurement., PUBLISHED
- Factors Affecting Service Delivery in Relation to Supply Chain Management Processes within the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited. A case study of Accra West Region., NOT PUBLISHED
Professional Memberships
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, USA
- Professional Engineer, Ghana Institution of Engineering (PE-GhIE), GHANA
- Chartered Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CMILT), UK
- Full Member, Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (MGIPS), GHANA
- Full Member, Chartered Institute of Supply Chain Management (MCISCM), GHANA
- Full Member, Renewable Energy Institute (MREI), UK
- Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE), USA
- Member, International Association of Engineers (MIAENG), HONG KONG
- Associate Member, Energy Institute (AMEI), UK
- Student Member, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), UK
Timeline
Regional Project Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
10.2022 - Current
District Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
02.2020 - 10.2022
Ag. District Manager
Power Distribution Services/ECG
04.2019 - 01.2020
District Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
03.2013 - 03.2019
Substation M'tce Engineer
Electricity Company of Ghana
05.2012 - 03.2013
Engineering Trainee
Electricity Company of Ghana
01.2011 - 05.2012
Operations & Sales Engineer
SFA Limited
08.2008 - 12.2010
NSP
Electricity Company of Ghana
10.2007 - 08.2008
MPhil - Procurement Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
MSc. - Energy and Sustainable Management
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
MBA - Supply Chain Management Option
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
Post Graduate Diploma - Business Administration
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
BSc. - Electrical/Electronic Engineering
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology
SSSCE Certificate - General Science
Mfantsipim School