Technical Operations Manager

Roles and Responsibilities

Job Purpose: To ensure safe, efficient, and reliable plant operations to prevent downtime and achieve plant production targets according to procedures, standards, and specifications. To ensure all activities carried out in the plant sites are executed according to all relevant standards and QHSE procedures, standards, and specifications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Validate work permits for work performed in the plant.
• Maintain efficient and reliable operations to avoid plant downtime and meet production targets. Ensure daily instructions are fully understood and well applied.
• Respond to emergency situations such as plant trips, accidents, or incidents, taking necessary actions to restore normal operations and prevent future occurrences.
• Perform frequent plant field inspection tours to ensure field activities are executed properly.
• Ensure all machinery is in sound operating condition.
• Validate that work requests issued by operators are acceptable in terms of timing and quality.
• Validate the quality of maintenance work executed for operations in the plant.
• Participate in scheduling maintenance works and first-level maintenance activities performed by operators.
• Take actions to reduce equipment downtime and ensure high plant availability.
• Participate in troubleshooting investigations, identify operational trends, perform root cause analysis, and recommend corrective actions to support continuous improvement.

Monitor O&M Performance:

• Participate in plant performance and availability improvement plans or operations and maintenance cost reduction plans by highlighting defects in plant design or installation.
• Submit necessary reports and recommendations to the Operations Manager regarding equipment status and/or problems. Keep track of all operations’ historical records.
• Participate in scheduled plant shutdowns and turnarounds.

Reporting:

• Manage financial planning to meet payables.
• Review O&M reporting on monthly performance against budget and business plans.
• Manage the preparation of monthly performance reporting and KPIs for the company.
• Contribute to financial planning, reporting, and tracking.
• Ensure all relevant reports are completed in a comprehensive, accurate, and timely manner, complying with international corporate governance principles and standards, as well as terms of agreements with CPC.

Desired Candidate Profile:

• Ensure that all HSE measures and precautions are strictly adhered to during operations activities to prevent Health, Safety, and Environment incidents.

Support with Other Tasks as Required:

• Provide support on other tasks as required by the line manager, including but not limited to writing key documents and correspondences.
• Lead projects or special assignments as required.

Compliance with Information Security Policies:

• Adhere to applicable Masdar information security policies and procedures, identifying and reporting security incidents and suspected weaknesses to the appropriate contacts.
• Protect assets under care (e.g., laptops and other devices) and information/credentials against unauthorized access, sharing, and/or damage/loss, in accordance with the Information Classification and Handling Procedure.
• Clear desks of all sensitive material and log off/lock workstations at the end of the day and when leaving the desk for prolonged periods, in accordance with Acceptable Usage Policies.
• Ensure no installation, copying, or modification of any software on Masdar equipment without authorization.

QHSE:

• Support Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) activities, policies, and objectives of Masdar, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.
• Participate in QHSE audits, office inductions, incident reporting, and review of QHSE performance as applicable.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8-10 years of experience in the operation of a large power generation plant or continuous process plants, with at least 3 years in a similar or supervisory role.
• MUST have hands-on experience in the operation of Steam Turbines, High Pressure Boilers, Wind Turbines, and Solar.
• Hands-on experience in the operations of Distributed Control Systems.
• Hands-on experience in the operations of HV, MV & LV Electrical Systems.

Job-Specific Skills:

• Good technical experience in wind power plants.
• Able to communicate appropriately and manage relationships with all persons on site.
• Experience managing different technical subcontractors on complex projects.
• Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
• Must be available to take duties and ownership of situations at all times, including weekends and outside of normal working hours.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, and Outlook, with proven ability to learn new software programs as needed.