Assistant Manager - EV Charging & E-Mobility

Pactive Sustainable Solutions; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Khidmah seeks an Assistant Manager – EV Charging & E-Mobility to lead the delivery, operation, and growth of the EV charging portfolio. You will manage end-to-end projects from feasibility to operation, ensuring safety, compliance, and commercial success.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, CPMS integration, OCPP interoperability, and coordination with teams and partners to deliver reliable charging solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, mechanical, energy, sustainability engineering, or related field.
• EV charging or energy systems knowledge is preferred.
• Proven experience in managing complex projects and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for EV charging infrastructure and electrical systems.
• Oversee integration with CPMS and digital platforms.
• Monitor performance, uptime and maintenance of chargers.
• Lead technical and commercial proposals and coordinate with partners.

Skills

Project management

EV charging

CPMS integration

OCPP interoperability

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

CPMS platforms

Job description

The Assistant Manager – EV Charging & E-Mobility is responsible for leading the delivery, operation, performance and growth of the EV charging and e-mobility portfolio. The role oversees the end-to-end lifecycle of EV charging projects, including feasibility, technical planning, deployment, commissioning, CPMS integration, operations and maintenance, performance monitoring and client management. The position also leads technical and commercial proposals, manages key stakeholders and coordinates internal teams, consultants, contractors and technology partners to ensure safe, reliable, compliant and commercially successful delivery of EV charging solutions.

Technical & Systems Management:

• Provide technical leadership for EV charging infrastructure and associated electrical systems.
• Oversee integration of EV chargers with Charging Point Management Systems (CPMS) and related digital platforms.
• Ensure appropriate communication protocols and interoperability, including OCPP-based solutions where applicable.
• Monitor charger performance, availability, uptime, utilization and operational efficiency.
• Review technical issues and coordinate with OEMs, technology providers and contractors to achieve timely resolution.

Commercial and Operations:

• Establish and monitor O&M requirements, SLAs, KPIs and service performance.
• Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Manage AMC requirements, schedules and contractor/OEM performance.
• Coordinate with Business Development, Finance, Procurement and suppliers to develop commercially viable proposals.
• Monitor charger uptime, availability, faults, utilization and customer-impacting issues.

Occupational and workplace Health and Safety responsibilities:

• In addition to all job specific responsibilities, all employees are required to adhere to all Khidmah health, safety and environmental (HSE) policies, procedures, practices, and relevant legal and statutory health, safety and environmental requirements and obligations. All employees are personally responsible to familiarize themselves with these policies, procedures, practices, updates, etc. Khidmah HSE department regularly updates existing and introduce new policies, procedures and practices and each employee is personally responsible to ensure they stay updated and compliant with all such updates and new additions.

Information Security responsibilities:

• Comply with Khidmah Information Security Policies
• Be aware of and fulfil their information security responsibilities
• Ensure whoever handles sensitive company information have taken the Security Awareness Training
• Know how to report a security incident (to IT ServiceDesk or InfoSec).
• Not Disable his/her OS firewall and/or Antivirus
• Restrict use to authorized purposes, Protect access accounts, privileges and associated passwords.
• Accept accountability of his/her individual user accounts, and maintain confidentiality

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Sustainability Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

Professional Certifications / Knowledge:

• EV charging, electrical infrastructure, energy management or related professional certification is an advantage.
• Knowledge of UAE EV charging regulations and utility/authority requirements is highly desirable.

Experience

• 5–7 years of relevant experience in EV charging, e-mobility, electrical infrastructure, energy systems or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience in managing or delivering EV charging projects from feasibility through installation, commissioning and operation.

Other Requirements

• Valid UAE driving license; access to a personal vehicle is an advantage.