Maintenance Mechanical Engineer

Star Energy Resources; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Star Energy Resources in the UAE is looking for a Maintenance Mechanical Engineer to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of a storage terminal. You will provide technical engineering expertise, supervise maintenance, troubleshoot, and drive reliability improvements.

You will ensure maintenance activities are engineered, planned, executed, inspected, and documented in line with engineering standards, manufacturer recommendations, and HSSE requirements, while mentoring technicians

Responsibilities

• Provide technical engineering support for preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.
• Supervise maintenance activities for pumps, seals, valves, piping, and related equipment.
• Review work orders, scopes, and materials to plan safe, compliant maintenance.
• Support reliability initiatives and asset integrity programs.

Job description

Job Purpose

Support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of an Oil & Gas storage terminal by providing technicalengineering expertise, maintenance supervision, troubleshooting, equipment reliability improvement, andmaintenance execution support.

The Maintenance Mechanical Engineer is responsible for ensuring that assigned maintenance activities areproperly engineered, planned, executed, inspected, and documented in accordance with applicable engineeringstandards, manufacturer recommendations, approved procedures, and HSSE requirements.

The position plays a key role in improving asset performance, developing maintenance strategies, supervisingtechnical execution, and strengthening the competence of Maintenance Technicians and Technical Assistants.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance Engineering & Execution

• - Provide technical engineering support for preventive, predictive, corrective, and breakdown maintenanceof mechanical equipment and terminal infrastructure.
• - Supervise and coordinate maintenance activities involving centrifugal pumps, mechanical seals, valves,piping, loading arms, firefighting systems, and other rotating and static mechanical equipment.
• - Review maintenance work orders, technical scopes, work instructions, spare parts requirements,manpower, tools, and execution methodologies.
• - Coordinate with Maintenance Planning and Operations to establish maintenance priorities, schedules,equipment availability, and resource requirements.
• - Ensure maintenance activities are executed in accordance with approved engineering specifications,drawings, manufacturer recommendations, and quality requirements.
• - Review maintenance findings, inspection results, equipment testing, and reinstatement requirementsbefore recommending equipment return to service.

Equipment Reliability & Asset Integrity

• - Investigate equipment failures, recurring defects, and abnormal operating conditions, identifying rootcauses and recommending corrective and preventive actions.
• - Support development and optimization of preventive and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• - Review equipment maintenance history, failures, performance trends, and work order data to identifyreliability improvement opportunities.
• - Support equipment criticality assessments, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and ReliabilityCentered Maintenance (RCM) initiatives.
• - Coordinate equipment inspections, condition monitoring, and integrity assessments with relevantspecialists.
• - Identify and escalation asset integrity concerns, overdue inspections, and safety-critical equipmentdeficiencies.
• - Support reliability improvement initiatives to reduce equipment failures, maintenance backlog, andunplanned downtime.

Engineering & Technical Documentation

• - Develop, review, and improve mechanical maintenance procedures, work instructions, inspectionchecklists, and technical specifications.
• - Review mechanical drawings, P&IDs, equipment manuals, and technical documentation required formaintenance execution.
• - Prepare technical scopes of work, material specifications, and engineering justifications for maintenancerelated modifications and repairs.
• - Provide engineering support for equipment modifications, replacement, upgrades, and minorimprovement projects.
• - Ensure maintenance records, inspection findings, equipment histories, and technical documentation areaccurate and traceable.
• - Support Management of Change (MoC) processes, technical risk assessments, and engineering reviewswithin delegated authority.

HSSE, Process Safety & Quality

• - Ensure assigned maintenance activities comply with terminal HSSE requirements, Permit to Work (PTW),isolation procedures, Life Saving Rules, and applicable engineering standards.
• - Participate in Job Safety Analyses (JSA), risk assessments, incident investigations, and technical safetyreviews.
• - Verify that maintenance activities have appropriate technical controls, work instructions, inspectionrequirements, and acceptance criteria.
• - Identify unsafe conditions, technical deviations, quality deficiencies, and potential equipment integrityrisks.
• - Exercise stop-work authority when activities are unsafe or required controls are not established.
• - Support inspection, testing, and quality verification of contractor maintenance activities.
• - Ensure corrective and preventive actions arising from maintenance failures, audits, inspections, andincidents are properly followed up.

Team Coordination & Competence Development

• - Provide technical guidance and supervision to Maintenance Technicians, Junior MaintenanceTechnicians, and contractors.
• - Support structured training, practical competency assessments, and development of junior maintenance personnel.
• - Coordinate technical activities with Operations, Maintenance Planning, Procurement, Warehouse, HSSE,and Projects.
• - Review work execution performance, identify technical capability gaps, and recommend training orimprovement actions.
• - Promote safe working pr