CrossBoundary Energy
About The Firm
CrossBoundary Energy, part of CrossBoundary Group, was launched in 2015 as Sub-Saharan Africas first dedicated fund for commercial and industrial renewable energy systems, including hybrid power systems for the mining sector. CrossBoundary Energy is currently active in more than 17 countries and has a portfolio of over US$500 million of renewable energy projects for commercial and industrial clients across the continent. CrossBoundary Energys approach to the industrial renewable energy transition has brought to bear some of the most significant mining hybrid projects in the world. CrossBoundary Energy is a direct investment platform of the CrossBoundary Group and is funded by ARCH Emerging Markets Partners Africa Renewable Power Fund (ARCH ARPF). For additional information, visit www.crossboundary.com/energy.
Why join us?
The CrossBoundary team is a unique group of people who are genuinely excited by the opportunity to make a difference in some of the most challenging and exciting markets in the world. Team members come from diverse backgrounds but share several qualities: curiosity, humility, integrity, a drive for excellence, and a bias for action. Learn more at www.crossboundary.com.
What Youll Do
CBE is recruiting a fulltime Technical Director to design, establish, and lead the technical asset management function across a growing portfolio of renewable and hybrid power assets in Africa. This is not a pure engineering or advisory position. You will build the technical foundations, systems, and operating standards required to manage a diverse, expanding fleetincluding large, complex hybrid plants (e.g., Kamoascale solarBESSthermal assets)and ensure assets consistently meet performance, availability, safety, and lifecycle objectives. Working closely with Engineering, Operations, Finance, ESG, and Project Delivery, you will own technical operations once assets transition into service, ensuring they are operated, maintained, monitored, and improved in a disciplined, repeatable, and scalable manner.
Primary Responsibilities2) PortfolioLevel Technical Standards & Systems3) O&M Strategy & Contractor Management4) Lifecycle & Handover Ownership5) ScaleReady Team & Capability Building6) CrossFunctional LeadershipWho You Are
- Technical Asset Operations & Performance
- Own the technical performance of operating assets, including availability, reliability, degradation management, and longterm asset health.
- Lead the technical response to underperformance, outages, and recurring issues; drive rootcause analysis and implement durable resolutions.
- Manage technical interfaces with O&M contractors, OEMs, and specialist vendors.
- Design and implement portfoliowide technical standards, operating philosophies, and performance benchmarks across technologies.
- Establish clear technical decision frameworks and escalation pathways aligned with commercial and risk thresholds.
- Build technical governance fit for portfolio scale and complexitynot singleasset heroics.
- Define technical inputs to O&M strategy (scope, KPIs, incentives, penalties) for new and existing assets.
- Standardize contractor performance management, reporting, and enforcement across the portfolio.
- Support contract structuring and renegotiation from a technical and lifecycle perspective.
- Own the technical handover from Project Delivery into Operations; confirm assets are operationally ready, dataenabled, and supported by robust documentation and systems.
- Ensure readiness for billing, performance monitoring, warranty management, and ongoing optimization.
- Build and lead a technical asset management team sized and structured for current portfolio needs and forecast growth.
- Codify technical knowledge, templates, and playbooks to reduce dependency on individuals.
- Develop internal technical capability and ensure continuity as the portfolio scales.
- Serve as the technical counterpart to commercial asset management, Finance, ESG, and Operations leadership.
- Translate technical issues into clear operational, financial, and risk implications for executive decisionmaking.
- Deep experience operating complex power generation assets, ideally solarBESShybrid systems.
- Proven track record of building and embedding technical operating frameworks (beyond designing them).
- Comfortable operating in emerging markets and imperfect operating environments.
- Strong judgment, pragmatism, and execution disciplineable to move from diagnosis to implementation.
- Leadership style focused on clarity, standards, and repeatability (not individual heroics).
- Credible partner to senior executives, contractors, and external stakeholders.
Location
Candidates will join our team in Nairobi, Kenya, Johannesburg, South Africa, or Cape Town, South Africa.
Equal Opportunity Employer
CrossBoundary is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to human.resources@crossboundary.com
