Maintenance Superintendent

Adecco Careers; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maintenance Superintendent with extensive experience in the alumina sector. This critical role involves ensuring safety and maintainability throughout project phases, optimizing operating costs, and fostering best maintenance practices. The ideal candidate will have a diploma or higher education, coupled with a strong background in maintenance operations, and the ability to train and mentor team members. Join a global leader in HR solutions and contribute to impactful projects in a dynamic environment where your expertise will drive success.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years operating experience in the alumina industry.
• 3 years experience as a Maintenance Superintendent.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety and maintainability during project phases.
• Optimize operating costs while balancing CAPEX and OPEX.
• Identify maintenance opportunities to add project value.

Skills

Maintenance Best Practices

Communication Skills

Team Adaptability

Training and Mentoring

Understanding of Engineering Principles

Education

Diploma or above

Job description

The role will be accountable to the Operations Director for:

1. Safety: ensuring that all relevant safety aspects from a maintainability perspective are taken into consideration during and post the feasibility study. This includes major shut downs, preventative maintenance and shift breakdown activities and proactive actions such as condition monitoring.
2. Maintainability: ensuring that during the feasibility study and during the detailed design and construction phases of the project, that the refinery will be “fit for purpose” and that due consideration is given to achieve the correct balance between CAPEX and OPEX. This will involve input into activities such as crane studies and identification of specialised tooling.
3. Operating Costs: ensuring that maintainability considerations are fully understood and that the best decisions are made to contain operating costs whilst working within the constraints of the project CAPEX.
4. CAPEX and Commissioning: seeking out opportunities to add value to the project by improved maintenance practices as a result of an improved design.
5. Timing: ensuring that maintaining concerns are raised at the earliest stage to enable joint and satisfactory resolution with the EPCM contractor, thus minimising any schedule slippages.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Preferably Diploma level or above.
2. 7-10 years operating experience in the alumina industry.
3. 3 years experience as a Maintenance Superintendent.
4. Ideally this person will be trade qualified.
5. Demonstrated high level of maintenance best practices.
6. Ability to train and mentor others.
7. Strong understanding of the relationship between production and maintenance.
8. Understands engineering principles.
9. Good communication skills.
10. Readily adapts to a team environment.

About The Company:

The Adecco Group is the world's leading provider of HR solutions. With more than 33,000 FTE employees and a network of 5,600 branches, in over 60 countries and territories around the world, we offer a wide variety of services, connecting close to 750,000 associates with well over 100,000 clients every day.

The services we offer fall into the broad categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition, talent development and workforce management solutions, as well as outsourcing and consulting.

The Adecco Group is based in Zurich-Glattbrugg, Switzerland and we are a Fortune Global 500 company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.