Operations &Maintenance Manager - Shuaibah 3 RO

• Lead and effectively manage all aspects of power generation and water production within NOMAC’s plant to ensure efficient operations, whilst maintaining a critical focus on safety and quality.
• Work with all related parties to troubleshoot and resolve escalated/critical operational issues to facilitate timely achievement of production objectives whilst ensuring minimal liquidity damages.
• Review the daily operations reports and submit periodic reports to the management, keeping them informed of all technical problems, if any, as well as on recent changes or modifications on existing work plan or schedule.
• Lead the Operational management meetings so that the entire team is clear on the production standards required and the operations programs that are underway.
• Review the long-term equipment and operating performance characteristics and provide technical recommendations to improve the reliability of the equipment and overall efficiency of the operations processes.
• Ensure all safety protective device tests on critical equipment are carried out successfully on regular basis, to ensure protective continuity testing in Compliance with International Safety Standards.
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• Effectively delegate any maintenance issues to be resolved on each shift and small projects to the right skills in the team, planning and managing effective works
• Adhere to daily and weekly checks to ensure smooth operation of site.
• Develop a Planned Preventative Maintenance (PM) schedule, ensure full preventative maintenance is carried out, plan in missed maintenance activities, and lead the team to deliver effectively.
• Audit and ensure compliance of the engineering data systems.
• Manage the team to ensure machine availability, reactively managing dysfunctional machinery with the Shift management.
• Optimize equipment according to standard procedure, enhancing performance and product quality, ensuring the achievement of all Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Ensure routine calibration and maintenance requirements of a variety of electro-mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems are undertaken.
• Develop clear accountability for maintenance material spend combined with a strategy to manage expenditure.
• Manage systems and equipment data storage and maintain high levels of standards and accuracy.
• Manage the process of the introduction of new machinery, plant and equipment from drawing up the specification, to managing suppliers through to full installation in collaboration with all relevant parties
• Manage the process of disposal of obsolete machinery, plant, and equipment from gaining agreement to write off to physically removing it and its safe and lawful disposal.
• Attend various meetings and action/communicate instructions.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems.
• Identify business improvement opportunities within the organization.
• Provide technical expertise to the team.
• Identify and deploy the technical skill sets, resource levels and systems to
• deliver projects, including the engagement of external resources as
• required
• Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials and advise others of any impact.
• Develop, implement, and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) foreach area of responsibility.
• Conduct risk assessments of processes and tasks in the department.

Plant Chemistry and Laboratory Management

• Oversee and monitor the setting of production parameters and adjust production conditions during operation to ensure quality and efficiency.
• Oversee the laboratory activities and ensure the testing is in accordance with regulatory requirements, procedures, schedules, budgeted costs, and quality standards.

Health, Safety, Security & Environment

• Ensure compliance to all relevant health, safety, security and environmental management policies, procedures, and controls across the department to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Report and respond to HSSE incidents using the established emergency communication channels and protocols, to minimise the impact of the hazard.
• Together with HSE department, ensure that safety rules and regulations are fully explained to plant employees / contractor staff and appropriate safety and protective equipment are worn; safety notices are prominently displayed in all work areas and that all accidents and incidents are efficiently investigated and analysed whilst ensuring that measures are implemented to avoid any recurrence.
• Monitor and ensure that ERT teams are readily available and evaluate their performance at regular intervals especially during the drills, to ensure they are complying with the HSSE practices and procedures.

• Strong leadership skills and excellent planning and organizational ability
• Strong experience and know-how of conceptual and analytical thinking
• Strong knowledge of the operations in water desalination plants
• Excellent communication, influencing and motivating skills.
• Mentoring, coaching and people management skills.
• Strong planning, organizing, and integration skills.
• Teamwork and effective collaboration skills
• Ability to manage emergency situations.
• Thorough understanding of PPP, contractual obligations etc.

Engineering