Ensuring safe, efficient, high quality and cost effective maintenance of rotating equipment, static equipment and solar field equipment.
Ensure the availability and reliability of the complete plant by applying the best, safest, sustainable and timely Maintenance practices in order to achieve the contractual requirements.
Enforce all safety and maintenance procedures on contractors and SPC employees.
Manage SPC employees and contractors during day-to-day maintenance and during outages to ensure safe and reliable maintenance practices are followed.
Review and update maintenance procedures and strive always to find a better and more cost effective way to perform the maintenance.
Support the maintenance manager with the annual, short term, long term and outage budgets.
Health and Safety
General Guidelines
Job Holder works at Shams solar power plant in a controlled potentially hazardous environment.
Job Holder should report anomalies as per HSE policy
Job holder should attend the HSE mandatory trainings as per to HSE policy
Risks
The daily work tasks performed represent risks that could lead to serious accidents which are controlled by means of procedures, PPE (Personal protective Equipment), safety devices and HSSE Team supervision.
Traffic/vehicles accidents.
Risks inherent to the job of Mechanical & Solar Field Maintenance while performing on-site inspections, Maintenance and outage activities.
Key Responsibilities:
Main Activities
Safety Culture
Enforce HSE and Quality policies and procedures, and ensure that all HSE measures and precautions are strictly considered and taken care of during the execution of maintenance activities to avoid any activity which might lead to Health Safety and Environment incidents / non conformities.
Ensure all mechanical and solar field related work is done under the Shams PTW procedures.
Ensure the facility corrective and preventative maintenance are done.
Ensure the facility corrective and preventative maintenance are done.
In the event of an emergency the job holder will participate in the emergency (response) team as per his role in the emergency response plan, which may include provision of logistic support (such as driving of vehicles, equipment and hose delivery / supply…) to the emergency response team. He will participate in emergency drills and if necessary will be trained in first aid and firefighting techniques.
Plant Reliability
Ensure at all times the Quality, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability of Shams Power Plant by following existing procedures and to review the existing procedures.
Ensure the availability of solar field and cleaning trucks as per company target.
Ensure that the cleaning of mirrors quantity/ quality as per company target
Ensure the technical availability of plant equipment to meet the contractual obligations.
Ensure the quantity and quality of cleaning activity in solar field as per company target
Recommend new maintenance plans, procedures and schedules to improve the reliability of plant equipment.
Review critical spare parts and ensure the required spare parts are available for the power plant, solar field and cleaning trucks.
Maintenance
Manage and coordinate preparation of plant maintenance activities with Planner, ensure materials required for job performance are available in quantity and quality.
Manage subordinates and contractors, directly guide, supervise and assume responsibility for the performance of the direct report Mechanical Maintenance personnel.
Supervise and coordinate Mechanical and solar field day to-day Maintenance activities, rectify defects as appropriate, manage emergency repairs and trouble-shooting activities to immediately determine the cause of failures and identify how to prevent failures in the future.
Ensure PM and CM maintenance are carried out and the actuals are recorded in MAXIMO.
Plan and supervise facility maintenance activities.
Participate and resolve plant technical issues in coordination with maintenance team, Engineering team and Operations team.
Assist and supervise senior mechanical technician, senior solar field technician and contractors in maintenance activities and troubleshooting.
Respond to all emergency breakdowns in person or by supervision of senior mechanical technician or senior solar field technician to ensure plant availability, minimize downtime and possibility of liquidity damages.
Strive to increase the PM’s and de-crease the CM’s
Communicate with contractors for any mechanical or solar field related requirements
Identify and ensure the availability of the required resource to perform day-to-day activities
Manage, raise and review Work Permits for each job performed by Mechanical and Solar Field team as required by Shams O&M procedures.
Participate in Plant performance and availability improvement and Operations and Maintenance cost reduction plans by highlighting defects/issues in the plant design or installation. Propose implementation and modification plans.
Improve workshop equipment and tools in order to perform new in house activity
Recommend new Maintenance plans, procedures and schedules for Mechanical equipment.
Maintain a condition based preventive maintenance culture on day to day basis by conducting troubleshooting and root cause analyses, finding solutions to reduce reactive maintenance.
Perform other related duties as assigned by Maintenance Manager.
Financial Control
Support the maintenance manager with the preparation of the annual budget, OPEX budget, Capex budget, outage budget and a long-term budget for mechanical, facility and solar field maintenance activities.
Prepare scope of work and generate purchase order for all mechanical and solar field requirements
Guide mechanical and solar field team to perform the maintenance within the yearly budget
Strive to develop more cost effective and efficient procedures to ensure the availability of the plant.
Perform as much work as possible in-house without sacrificing the quality.
Identify contractors as per mechanical and solar field requirement
Review, renegotiate existing contract
Negotiate with contractors the most cost effective, safe, technical sound procedures, services and high quality materials.
Outages
Manage contractors during the annual and major outages to ensure high quality and safe work.
Prepare manpower, budget and material required to ensure timely availability of resources and spares for effective execution of solar field and power block outage maintenance plans.
Plan yearly shutdown and maintenance of solar field and power block as per the maintenance procedures.
Generate and file outage service reports.
Ensure all outage related actuals are recorded in Maximo
Team Development
Involve the technicians and supervisors during RCA’s as part of the on job training.
Lead mechanical and solar field team during maintenance activities to install good maintenance practices and high quality work ethics.
Support mechanical and solar field team during trouble shooting to improve their confidence
Ensure individuals’ development for all mechanical and solar field team
Workmanship
Reduce the re-work by ensuring technicians are using the maintenance procedures and correct tools.
Ensure maintenance activities are well defined and planned.
Review the existing procedures and update if required.
Generate new procedures as required.
Review the existing spare parts and ensure the required spare parts are available.
Job Context
Shams solar power plant is located in a desert environment close to Madinat Zayed City.
Job Holder works in the Maintenance Department under the supervision of the Maintenance Manager.
Job Holder can either work during day or night shift depending on the nature of works to be performed.
Job Holder supports reliable and accessible 24-hour call-out functionality.
Job Holder works equally indoor and outdoor.
Job Holder’s role is defined by the Maintenance Manager. The responsibility and authority of the Job Holder
is subject to the demands of the work scope and criticality.
Job Holder is required to understand and promptly act safely upon operational instructions, respond safely and effectively in urgent situations, make quick decisions in the event of breakdown or failure to safeguard personnel and the Plant.
Job Holder shall solve problems in accordance with Shams O&M Policies and Procedures.
Job Holder is empowered to take on the right initiative to ensure problem will be solved in a timely, safe cost efficient and sustainable manner, to avoid reoccurrence. Problem solving may require various parties to support the initiative.
Job Holder works closely with Technicians and Contractors to ensure that Maintenance activities are carried out efficiently, safely and to high quality standard.
External: Vendors, Contractors and Sub-Contractors’ operational staff.
Skills & Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering
Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
No particular certification is required but driving license is required.
Experience
At least 10 year experience in Mechanical & Solar Field maintenance of a large power generation plant or continuous process plants, of which at least 3 years in a similar position or a supervisory role.
Hands-on experience in the maintenance and repair of rotating & static equipment.
Skills
Highly proactive and self-motivated, capable of handling multiple tasks.
Team player, good interpersonal skills for subordinates development, team building and conflict resolution.
Good knowledge of preventive and predictive Maintenance principles and working procedures.
Proficient with PC software’s and CMMS, able to write technical reports and procedures.
Good command of oral and written English, Arabic is an advantage.
Required Competencies
Core: HSE Compliant, Team Oriented, Respectful, Professional Work Ethics, Communication
Technical: Time Management, Competent Person for Lifting Plans, Risk Assessment, Organizational Skills, Basic Environmental Knowledge, Report Writing, Emergency Response Management, Maintenance Reliability Competent, Forecasting & Budgeting, Leadership & Management
Key Accountabilities
Strictly adhere, promote and ensure the enforcement of Shams O&M Policies, Procedures and HSSE rules and practices.
Safe, cost effective and continuous operations of Plant Mechanical equipment.
Asset integrity management.
Responds/acts upon Maintenance Manager‘s supervision and direction.
Mechanical team and Contractor management.
UAE Nationals development.
Ownership of Plant mechanical equipment.
Good team spirit with colleagues and other department employees.
Improvement of Plant operations by identifying opportunities and making constructive suggestions.
Efficient use of CMMS by Mechanical team and contractors.