Installation & Maintenance Jobs in Ethiopia

Tenant Maintenance Coordinator (Fluent Arabic Speaker) 

Company: Sunrise Real Estate
Location: Sunrise Real Estate, Summit Square by Medhanialem church and Pepsi Round About: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=2R2W%2BG6P+Addis+Ababa
Employment Type: Temporary with the potential to become permanent
Time: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

 Pay: 30,000 ETB NET 

About the Role

Sunrise Real Estate is looking for a reliable, organized Tenant Maintenance Coordinator to be the main point of contact between our Arabic-speaking tenants and our maintenance teams. Many of our tenants do not speak English or Arabic so this role is built around clear, respectful communication in Arabic. You will visit our properties, assess reported damage, handle tenant calls, and make sure repairs are scheduled and completed quickly. The work is fast-paced, with new tasks every day. 

You will be responsible for handling requests made by tenants such as change in light bulb, water pump being broken, drainage issues, anything related with home maintenance and construction. You will be introduced to the Engineers on site and all the maintenance handymen and your job is to coordinate and fix a good time to enter the property. The tenants are very strict so you must be very professional in your approach. 

This is a temporary position so we can see your performance firsthand. Strong performers will be considered for a permanent role.

Responsibilities

• Visit properties to inspect and document reported damage and maintenance issues
• Answer tenant calls and messages promptly and professionally in Arabic
• Complete multiple maintenance request forms and reports accurately each day
• Schedule and coordinate meetings with repair workers and contractors
• Keep tenants updated on the status of their requests
• Follow up to confirm repairs are finished and tenants are satisfied
• Report urgent issues and ongoing work to the office team

Roles and Responsibilities

• Before the job launches, he/she will ensure the production device (Machine) is ready for work interims of safety & cleanness.
• Make sure that the machine and environment is clean and safe for operation.
• Make sure that all the machine safeguarding’s are on place.
• Make sure you have worn the all PPE. properly
• Make sure the raw material is as per the company standard.
• Confirms that the required raw materials are already Available
• Ensure that all the raw materials are ready as per the given recipe
• promptly inform the close-up of the production process, unusual sound or a problem immediately with the production Team leader, to correct the deficiencies, and assist with the repair personnel in the repair work
• Precautions, protects and preserves the product, equipment, parts and finished products supplied for the product.
• Operating the machine properly as per the SOP, using the right stopping mechanism on the time of emergency and stopping the machine following the right procedure as per the SOP.
• Ensuring that all the design structures are on the right place while the machine is operated.stopping the machine following the right procedure as per the SOP.
• Ensuring that all the design structures are on the right place while the machine is operated.
• Make sure that preventive maintenance and CLIT are done properly.
• Monitor and control machines on upstream and downstream are running optimally and safely.
• Provide necessary Trainings for junior staffs.
• Maintain activity log (produced volume, down time, wastage)
• Follow up on maintenance
• Propose alternative ways

DEDE Bottle Factory PLC is an emerging bottle manufacturer dedicated to high-quality, sustainable production. Located in Debre Birhan, with a contact office in Addis Ababa, our state-of-the-art facility is currently in the advanced project phase. We are preparing for full-scale operations with cutting-edge machinery and expert teams to serve both local and international markets with innovative bottle solutions.

Purpose of the Job

The Setup & Maintenance Mechanician II leads the installation, setup, calibration, and continuous maintenance of inspection machines used in the bottle production process. This role ensures optimal machine performance, minimizes unscheduled downtime, maintains strict product quality standards, and supports production efficiency while providing technical guidance to junior mechanicians.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Install and configure inspection machines on the bottle production line, ensuring proper calibration and operational functionality.
• Perform initial setup and fine-tuning of inspection equipment to align with strict production specifications.
• Verify sensor alignment, camera accuracy, and rejection mechanisms for precise defect detection.
• Execute routine preventive maintenance programs on inspection machinery to eliminate unscheduled operational downtime.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and software issues affecting inspection performance.
• Repair or replace faulty machine components, including sensors, motors, conveyors, and control panels.
• Monitor machine metrics during active production and adjust settings to resolve quality issues.
• Maintain accurate records of machine setups, calibration logs, maintenance actions, and troubleshooting activities.
• Collaborate with Production and Quality Control teams to systematically resolve recurring inspection defects.
• Enforce factory maintenance protocols, occupational safety standards, and keep a clean, organized work area.
• Support the technical growth of junior mechanicians through direct coaching, mentoring, and knowledge transfer.
• Carry out other related duties as assigned by the Shift Supervisor.

Vamos Trading plc

Vamos Trading plc is one of the prominent Private companies in Ethiopia. It incorporates five legal business entities namely; Vamos construction, Vamos real-estate, Vamos hotel, Vamos Import /Export and Vamos concrete batching plant trading plc.

 General Service and Maintenance Officer

Job Summary

  The General Maintenance Officer is responsible for coordinating and monitoring general service, office facility, maintenance, and administrative support activities to ensure a safe, clean, functional, and well-maintained working environment. The position coordinates routine maintenance, follows up on service providers and contractors, manages office facilities and supplies, and ensures timely resolution of maintenance and general service requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day general service and facility management activities.
• Ensure offices, common areas, and company facilities are clean, safe, organized, and properly maintained.
• Conduct regular inspections of company facilities and identify maintenance requirements.
• Follow up on office furniture, fixtures, equipment, and facility-related issues.
• Coordinate office relocation, workspace arrangement, and other facility requirements.
• Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance activities for buildings, offices, furniture, electrical, plumbing, and other facility-related systems.
• Receive and follow up on maintenance requests from employees and departments.
• Coordinate with technicians, contractors, and service providers for maintenance and repair works.
• Monitor maintenance work to ensure it is completed properly, on time, and according to required standards.
• Coordinate with external service providers and contractors for general service and maintenance activities.
• Obtain quotations and support the procurement process for maintenance and service requirements.
• Monitor the performance and quality of outsourced service providers.
• Follow up on contracts, service schedules, and maintenance agreements

Number Required:- 2

Salary: Attractive and benefit package.

Work Place: Addis Ababa

Employment Type: Full-time and Permanent

The main purpose of the Position

Performing autonomously, specific complex / advanced installation, maintenance works and repairs depending on technician’s specialization (requiring special/qualifications/training), according to supervisor’s instructions and MSF standards and procedures, in order to ensure a proper functioning and maintenance of MSF equipment, installations and infrastructures

Accountabilities 

• Performing autonomously, all necessary complex / advanced installations, maintenance and repairs (i.e. requiring special qualifications/training), according to the supervisor’s instructions and executes any needed tests after any repair or maintenance. Including the following functions:  
• • Qualified Electrician
  • Qualified Mechanic
  • Biomed Technician
• Making suggestions regarding any repair or maintenance work needed in MSF electrical installations, equipment and/or vehicles and assisting logistics department for any relative work needed.
• Managing the stock of consumable items, filling in the stock cards, carrying out physical stock inventories, executing orders necessary for renewing stock, avoiding any shortage.
• Responsible for the equipment and tools, including extinguishers, checking they are correctly and safely used, maintaining and renewing them when necessary and keeping the inventory updated.
• Keeping working area clean and tidy.
• Ensuring that all record sheets and books related to logistical maintenance are always completed. Preparing needed reports before and after any repair or required maintenance.
• Immediately informing the line manager of any problems that arise in the course of the work, particularly with regard to damage, loss, theft or attempted break-ins.
• Working in collaboration with other specialised technicians and workers, if necessary, or managing a small team of workers.

MSF Section/Context-Specific Accountabilities 

• Accountable for the installation, maintenance, and repair of all coordination facilities, including offices, warehouses, guest houses, and the Expat family house.
• Develop and implement preventive maintenance plans for all MSF facilities, equipment, generators, electrical systems, sanitary systems, plumbing systems, and infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and minimize breakdowns.
• Follow up on maintenance requests and ensure timely execution of maintenance activities across all coordination facilities.
• Carry out preventive and corrective maintenance of electrical installations, including distribution boards, wiring systems, lighting systems, sockets, and other electrical infrastructure.
• Conduct regular inspections and condition assessments of offices, warehouses, guest houses, staff residences, water and sanitation systems, electrical installations, and other MSF infrastructure, and report identified risks with recommended corrective actions.
• Supervise and monitor contractors and external service providers during outsourced maintenance, construction, and rehabilitation works to ensure compliance with MSF standards, safety requirements, and technical specifications.
• Monitor the condition and performance of technical installations and equipment, identify potential failures or risks, and recommend corrective measures to minimize service interruptions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve electrical and electromechanical issues affecting facilities and equipment to ensure operational continuity.
• Support infrastructure improvement and rehabilitation projects by preparing technical specifications, Bills of Quantities (BoQs), cost estimates, and work completion verification reports.
• Ensure compliance with occupational health, safety, and environmental standards, including electrical safety, fire safety requirements, and safe working practices.
• Monitor the condition and expiry dates of fire extinguishers across all coordination facilities and initiate timely servicing, refilling, or replacement when required.
• Monitor and analyze utility consumption, including electricity, water, fuel, and generator usage, and propose measures to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date maintenance records, technical reports, equipment histories, and related documentation to ensure proper traceability.
• Coordinate emergency maintenance interventions and respond promptly to technical incidents to ensure the safe and continuous operation of all facilities.
• Supervise and monitor the functionality, maintenance, and performance of submersible pumps, booster pumps, and water distribution systems in warehouses and other facilities.
• Monitor pest control measures, identify signs of infestation, assess potential entry points, and ensure appropriate pest control interventions, particularly in warehouse facilities.
• Monitor and supervise the condition, performance, and functionality of dehumidifiers to ensure uninterrupted operation in warehouses, archives, and storage areas.
• Implement and monitor Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) programs for cold-chain equipment, refrigerators, and related systems.
• Ensure the proper installation and safety compliance of warehouse racking systems in accordance with recognized storage and warehouse safety standards.
• Support the Logistics Coordinator Assistant in asset identification, coding, inventory control, and compliance with MSF asset management procedures.
• Perform any other related duties assigned by the line manager.

External Vacancy Announcement

Position Title: Packaging Operator 

Location: Harar

Number of Positions: 3

Application Deadline: September 15, 2026

Job Purpose:

The Packaging Operator will ensure the safety agenda in the daily job. Operate and execute in a qualitative way the process and product-related tasks while improving the key performance indicators and production losses, leading to a safe working environment on machine/area.

Key Responsibilities

• Works in line with the defined and implemented safety, environmental, and food safety standards. Following the 5S, Housekeeping and HACCP are related to the workplace.
• Identify the safety risks in their department.
• Apply LSR principles, including do's and don'ts.
• Take action where unsafe situations or behaviors occur, give feedback, and report to the relevant people.
• Safely shut down and start up equipment for the yearly overhaul.
• Act in compliance with HEINEKEN and local safety rules, standards, and procedures.
• Identify water and energy losses in their area of responsibility and suggest solutions.
• Implement good environmental practices.
• Make all the quality checks in line with the standards and procedures on simple packaging machines.
• Perform quality and food safety checks in line with standards and safety procedures.
• Identify quality issues in their area.
• Take part in improvement actions to prevent quality issues from arising and contribute to quality-related analyses (e.g., DAS, RCFAs, problem-solving).
• Clean and disinfect to the expected level in line with recipe standards, SOPs, and CILT.
• Executes the tagging process, CILT, and applies problem-solving tools. Participates and starts leading the improvement teams.
• Use the digital tools available to report the information required for the DCS (e.g., shift handover list, downtime reports, shift performance information).
• Restore and sustain basic conditions using the shop floor excellence tools displayed in digital applications (SOP, OPL, CILT activities, and 5S).
• Apply APM team methodology, steps 0-3.
• Take part in TPM improvement activities related to safety, quality, the environment, and performance losses in their area (BDA, MSR, Kaizen, RCFA)
• Identify losses in the operation (extract, water, energy, material losses, etc.).
• Executes all the packaging operations on simple machines in line with the valid standards. Manage documentation and reporting for the working area.
• Operate the equipment according to demand and seasonality.
• Perform basic standards for the packaging process in their own area (all planned and routine activities – sampling, cleaning, start up and shutdown according to Standard Operating Procedures, etc. – and machine processes).
• Operates the simple packaging machines. Executes basic maintenance tasks according to standards 
• Safely operate equipment in line with specifications and demand and ensure delivery On Time In Full.
• Captures and interprets performance data and executes corrective actions
• Restore and sustain basic conditions using the shop floor (SOP, OPL, CILT activities, and 5S).
• Apply tagging and de-tagging, prioritize the tags, and eliminate equipment anomalies.

Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an international Italian NGO established in 1965. Since its establishment, COOPI has been undertaking activities to help and empower the poor and needy in different countries. COOPI Ethiopia started its operation in 1995 and has been primarily implementing emergency, relief and early recovery programs in water hygiene and sanitation, food security and livelihood, nutrition and protection sectors.

COOPI is currently implementing 12 projects in Ethiopia focusing on WASH, ESNFI, CCCM, Energy, Food security and Livelihood managing 7 field bases and a staff of over 100 employees.

COOPI is looking for qualified and competent Community mobilizer

Position: cpmmunity mobilizer

• Number required: 1 (One)

• Duty station: Tigray Region – Axum

• Duties and Responsibilities:

Key Activities/Responsibilities

Planning

• Awareness Campaigns: Organize workshops on the historical value, vulnerability, and long-term importance of local heritage.

• Form local volunteer groups to monitor heritage sites against vandalism, encroachment, or decay

• Skill Development: Coordinate training in hospitality management, guiding, hygiene standards, and basic financial literacy

• Micro-enterprise Support: Assist artisans and farmers in packaging and marketing local products directly to tourists

• Maintain a transparent grievance system where locals can voice negative tourism impacts

• Stakeholder Coordination: Liaising between government agencies, private hospitality businesses, and local communities

• Visitor Management: Implementing carrying-capacity strategies to prevent overtourism and manage crowd flow at sensitive sites

• Campaign Execution: Leading destination marketing campaigns to attract specific target demographics and international markets.

• Digital Promotion: Managing online branding, social media positioning, and partnerships with travel influencers or media

• Event Hosting: Organizing promotional roadshows

• Capacity Building: Conducting training workshops for local guides, hospitality staff, and tourism entrepreneurs

• Provide any support required by the Project Manager (PM) in drafting the M&E plan for the project according to Log Frames, with the support of the WASH Coordinator or geological /Advisor.

• Prepare drafts/ToRs for activities implementation (background, methodology, objectives, results, activities, BoQs, Monitoring and post monitoring table linked to result framework and send it to PM,

• When requested by the PM, prepare a detailed physical and financial monthly plan according to the format provided by the PM and submit it to PM 10 days before the end of the month, with the support and supervision of the WASH Coordinator or geological /Advisor.

• Prepare weekly activity planning, movement plan with the PM and send to the WASH Coordinator or geological /Advisor.

• Prepare monthly plan with the support of the WASH Coordinator or geological /Advisor and the PM.

• Prepare the general work plan for the hard and soft activities.

• Prepare and share the weekly accomplishment of the activities (hard and soft).

• Contribute to weekly project meetings.

Implementation

• Prepare all educational, conservation, and training materials in the primary local language or dialect.

• Skills Training: Roll out vocational hospitality training and language programs for local workers

• Local Inclusivity: Build community-based tourism models ensuring local communitu participation and creating awareness in touism development and managment

• Working closely with COOPI's WASH/ geological Department.

• Have relevant experience in supervising civil works, in heritage conservation and rehabilitation

• He/she should know about the international and local standards to be the reference for executing the works.

• Report any management problems in implementing activities to the PM. Report any technical problems to the PM and the WASH Coordinator/ geological Advisor.

• Support the PM in the implementation of project activities. Provide technical assistance in her/his area of expertise.

• Support field supervision of contractors and PIs. Review and approve completion reports of completed works in collaboration with the advisory group, PM and program coordinator.

• Support the implementation of baseline, intermediate monitoring, post-monitoring, end-of-project surveys and all data collection required to implement activities, reporting results and targets as requested by the PM and ToRs (with Kobo when possible).

• Make proper use and take care of COOPI properties under one's control.

• Work closely with the WASH team in the implementation of activities.

• Supervise the work of masons/plumbers during the construction of WASH works (water systems, elevated tanks, latrines, replacement of doors and roofs...).

• Be present in the field during hard and soft works (construction, rehabilitation, data collection, monitoring, etc.).

• Actively participating to weekly/bi-weekly meeting called by the PM following the Agile system.

• Preparation of weekly and monthly reports to share with PM.

• Support to draft/inform the PM on activities accomplishment, including implementation data as requested (interim, final, ad hoc, etc).

• Participate in grant closing meetings for every closed grant (if required by the PM).

• Attend coordination meetings with communities at Kebele and Woredas level requested by the PM and share key points (no decision level is granted in stakeholders coordination meetings).

• Support the organization of internal and donors visits to the project sites liaising with the PM.

• Support approval of agreements with the regions and required MoU with local authorities.

• Active participation in relevant technical working group.

Reporting

External Coordination

Project development

• Support the regular collection of information at stakeholders level (Zone, Woredas and Kebele, community, local partners, NGOs, etc.) baseline need assessment, gaps.

• Propose activities and project ideas and share them to the PM.

Perform any other duties assigned by the PM.

About You

Qualification and Experience

• Senior Level / Team Lead: 5 to 8+ years of experience leading multi-stakeholder projects, preferably with international NGOs or cultural agencies (e.g., UNESCO, ICOMOS).

• Heritage & Conservation: Minimum 1–2 years working specifically with cultural heritage sites, museum outreach, archeological protections, or natural resource management

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Tourism Studies, Hospitality Management, or Business

• Soft Skills: Advanced cross-cultural communication, problem-solving, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills

• A minimum of five years of relevant working experience in tourism and hotel management, with private companies or NGOs. Please, list the works you supervised and completed in your CV, with clear specifications on your role, works completed and locations.

Fluency in English and Tigrigna.

• Proven capacity to work in a team is essential. Experience in managing staff is a must.

  Preferred:

• Regulations: Strong understanding of national building codes, historic preservation laws, and UNESCO charters

• Experience in liaising with governmental/local authorities and NGOs.

• Excellent knowledge of construction/rehabilitation of civil and WASH works and draft of BoQs.

• Have some knowledge related to the foundation soils.

• Demonstrated ability to work in stressful environments and under pressure.

• Knowledge of local language and area of operation is a plus.

Application Deadline: August 07, 2026

Duration of the contract: Six months with possibility of extension based on satisfactory performance and fund availability.

Salary and Benefit: Gross salary 40,531 ETB

• Hardship Allowance 30%

Duty starting date: As soon as possible

Requirement Skill

• Communication

• Data Analysis & Reporting

Desired Skill

• Data Collection & Reporting

How To Apply

Interested applicants should submit the following non-returnable documents:

• Cover Letter

• Updated Curriculum Vitae (with credential documents), via ethiojobs.net or recruitment.ethiopia@coopi.org

• Please submit a copy of your document and COOPI will not take any responsibility for the loss of any original document.

• Please write position name that you apply for in the subject of email.

• Please do not forget to specify the location of interest on the cover letter.

Only short-listed candidates who meet the requirements will be contacted.

COOPI is committed to promoting diversity and gender equality within the Organization. Women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Perks + Benefits

Medical Allowance