Head of Engineering, UAE

What we need:

Head of Engineering, UAE will advance and position the fleet in terms of reliability, cost, and efficiency, and within the top quartile globally over the project lifecycle while complying with the applicable contractual documents. Will also be responsible for the lifetime management and integrity of the major capital items of plant and apparatus such as Gas & Steam Turbines, HRSG’s and pressure systems, Generators, Transformers and electrical distribution systems, Desalination, peripheral plant including pumps, pipework and tanks, and structural and civil assets and associated balance of plant herein known as the assets. They will be required to develop and implement local procedures and methods which allow compliance with Operator developed directives and guidance on Engineering, considering manufacturers recommendations and good engineering practice.

The Head of Engineering is a member of the Senior Management Team within the cluster and is responsible for the assets within the Cluster assigned.

• Risk assesses the degrading effects of plant operations on plant remnant life and plant integrity.
• Implements management systems, develops, and implements local procedures/activities to effectively manage Engineering Risks and ensures compliance with Corporate Technical Procedures or guidance documents.
• Develops and implements written schemes of inspection to periodically assess the condition of the plant (Turbines, Generators, Boilers, Distillers, Pipe work, etc.).
• Develops long term outage plans and manages annual outages, including:
• Development of outage plans for the foreseeable remnant life of the plant.
• Preparation for outages in terms of securing the necessary budgetary funding approval, procurement of spares, manpower, technical expertise, and preparation of technical specifications to allow completion of the tendering process.
• Ensures that all the required activities are completed on time prior to the due date of the outages.
• Manages the outages safely, on time and to budget to achieve the desired objectives; and,
• Ensures lessons learnt are recorded, incorporated into future plans and that a full record of as found and final status is maintained. Is the lead interface pertaining to the CSAs/LTSA’s with relevant suppliers.
• Implements a program of plant condition monitoring to determine the current condition of the plant.
• Works with the Maintenance Department to optimize maintenance requirements over the lifetime of the plant.
• Leads the Investigation into the root cause of singular and repeat failures and implements reliability improvements in coordination with sites, ROS framework.
• Liaise with the Operations Department to determine plant improvements in relation operability, safety, environmental impact, efficiency and commercial flexibility.
• Implements a test program to routinely check the safety integrity of the plant.
• Communicates OEM TIL’s and notifications to the owner in an appropriate timescale.
• Plant modifications are managed and controlled in compliance with Corporate Technical Guidance.
• Ownership of the change management process for the sites and assessing Engineering proposals and modifications represent value for money commensurate with the assessed risk; and,
• Map competencies within the team and ensure active participation as part of a wider network of experts across the global fleet.
• Review relevant maintenance and performance KPI’s with sites and define programs to address continuous improvement.
• Support O&M Design Review (i.e. accessibility, redundancy, automatisms, etc.).
• Monitor and supervise commissioning and performance tests.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among engineering teams across different power stations. Share best practices, lessons learned, and innovations to drive improvements.
• Ensure high level of reliability and resource efficiency within the business, identification of new actions as outcome of RCA’s or fleet experience in coordination with Engineering and Maintenance.
• Review a prepared SOW for the major overhauls /LTE/major refurbishments of plant equipment in close coordination with Cluster site management.
• Ensure technology wise lesson learned shared across the cluster and effective implementation of derived actions.
• Support PAT team in carrying out O&M Readiness Assessment prior to takeover.

Accountabilities:

• Health, Safety and Environmental aspects of the business are considered in commercial business decisions.
• The integrity of the asset is not compromised on the basis of cost.
• Engineering Risk Management processes are implemented.
• Ownership of the ROS, Process Safety, and Change Management process throughout the relevant sites.
• Investigate and consolidate responses to MPC center for issues observed through monitoring software’s, while working with the central team on the development of new tools for more efficient identification of issues in future.
• Compliance with Regulations, Laws and Project Agreements.
• Staff are trained and competent and are developed professionally.
• Engineering and quality standards are established and maintained.
• Engineering budgets are accurate and controlled.
• Inputs into the Business Planning process.

Who will fit:

• 15 - 20 years of experience in the field with high focus on plant reliability.
• PHD or Master’s in engineering or a Bachelor’s degree with membership of a Chartered institute or Engineering body. Relevant experience can be considered based on specific cases.

About NOMAC

Founded in 2005, and firmly established in the GCC, North Africa and South, Middle Europe and East Europe regions, providing high quality O&M (Operation & Maintenance) services for power production and water desalination projects, regionally and globally.

More of us, and opportunities in www.nomac.com