Mechanical Engineer

Acwa China; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NOMAC is seeking a seasoned Maintenance Manager to oversee mechanical maintenance across the plant, ensuring high availability and reliability. The role emphasizes preventive and corrective maintenance, outage planning, and effective troubleshooting in line with HSE and quality standards.

The successful candidate will lead a team, coordinate with OEM contractors, and ensure data integrity in SAP/CMMS, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in mechanical maintenance, preferably in water desalination or power plants.
• Knowledge of SAP/CMMS and maintenance planning.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and manage mechanical maintenance activities to ensure plant availability and reliability.
• Oversee preventive/corrective maintenance, planning shutdowns, and overhauls.
• Maintain documentation in SAP, including logs, repairs, time and materials.

Skills

Mechanical engineering knowledge

Downtime analysis

CMMS SAP knowledge

Project management

Preventive maintenance

Mentoring & people management

Plant operations in water desalination

Planning & organization

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Job Purpose

To supervise and manage the mechanical maintenance activities in the plant, including preventative and corrective maintenance, planning for shutdowns, and overhauling work activities; organizing maintenance, troubleshooting and modification of all mechanical machinery in accordance with overall maintenance plans, HSE guidelines and quality standards to ensure plant availability and machine reliability.

Job Purpose

To supervise and manage the mechanical maintenance activities in the plant, including preventative and corrective maintenance, planning for shutdowns, and overhauling work activities; organizing maintenance, troubleshooting and modification of all mechanical machinery in accordance with overall maintenance plans, HSE guidelines and quality standards to ensure plant availability and machine reliability.

Maintenance Management

Monitor the mechanical preventive and corrective maintenance and overhauling work activities to ensure safe and efficient application of procedures and implementation of optimal mechanical maintenance.

Ensure that all documentation is completed in SAP correctly such as the Log, outlining the fault, method of repair and the time, labour and materials used in order to support timely availability of information.

Manage the timely response to all emergency breakdowns and provide prompt corrective action to ensure plant availability, thereby minimizing downtime and possibility of liquidity damages.

Develop and promote a condition based preventive maintenance culture on day to day basis by conducting troubleshooting and root cause analyses, finding solutions to reduce reactive maintenance.

Troubleshoot critical problems/breakdowns of Mechanical machinery and investigate, diagnose faults to determine best proper action/repairs while ensuring they comply with NOMAC’s quality and HSE standards.

Review and analyse mechanical machinery maintenance data and conduct site engineering studies to determine the feasibility of introducing modifications to increase reliability and efficiency of plant, thereby ensuring continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Prepare feasibility studies for new installations, replacements or repair of existing mechanical machinery including technical evaluation, specifications and materials for modifications in addition to process diagrams and cost estimates and ensure proper follow up reports and evaluation on completed modifications.

Outage Management

Participate in the effective forecasting of manpower, budget and material requirements to ensure timely availability of resources and spares for effective execution of Mechanical outage maintenance plans.

Coordinate the planning and execution of the shutdown maintenance of critical mechanical machinery, as per the recommendation of the OEM, and provide technical support to ensure the EHS, scope, cost, and timeline objectives are met.

Documentation

Ensure that all maintenance documentation for the mechanical activities are completed correctly including the Maintenance Log, outlining the fault, method of repair and the time, labour and materials used to support timely availability of information.

Health, Safety, Security & Environment

Ensure adherence to all relevant health, safety, security and environmental procedures, instructions and controls so that the safety of employees and environmental compliance can be guaranteed.

Together with HSSE department, ensure that safety rules and regulations are fully explained to plant employees / contractor staff and appropriate safety and protective equipment is worn; safety notices are prominently displayed in all work areas and that all accidents and incidents are efficiently investigated and analysed whilst ensuring that measures are implemented to avoid any recurrence.

Material Management

Lead the preparation of monthly / annual requirements for machinery, spare parts and general materials for the mechanical unit within the plant to support timely availability of requirements as per maintenance plans and budget constraints.

Evaluate quotations provided by the procurement department to identify and provide recommendations on the most appropriate materials / machinery for the plant.

Relationship Management

Develop and maintain effective business relationships with all relevant internal departments and external contractors with highest standards of business ethics, whilst promptly attending to all critical technical issues in-order to ensure the services required by the organization are delivered in the most effective manner.

Liaise with EPC / OEM contractors for clarification, analysis and technical guidance in order to ensure clarity of communications/accurate fulfilment of operational requirements.

SAP Administration

Supervise the effective administration of SAP processes within the Mechanical maintenance section and adhere to SAP guidelines in all related aspects of maintenance planning, scheduling, data management such as breakdowns review, corrective maintenance notification, creating maintenance work orders and planning in order to ensure data/system integrity in line with NOMAC’s defined standards.

Continuous Improvement

Contribute in the identification and implementation of change initiatives, programmes and projects in line with the organization’s standards.

Policies, Processes, Systems & Procedures

Adhere to all relevant organizational and departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions so that work is carried out to the required standard and in a consistent manner.

Health, Safety, Security & Environment

Adhere to all relevant health, safety, security and environmental procedures, instructions and controls so that the safety of employees and environmental compliance can be guaranteed.

Assignments

Perform any other duties which the line manager may require to be carried out.

People Management

Supervise the activities and work of the team members to ensure that targets and objectives are achieved and the business plan is delivered in line with the required policies, processes, procedures and systems.

Internal

Needs to work closely with Maintenance Manager / Engineering Section Head, Mechanical Supervisor, Mechanical Technicians and Operations Team.

External

Work with Relevant contractors and vendors.

Minimum Qualifications

A Bachelor degree holder in Mechanical Engineering.

Minimum Experience

7-10 years’ experience in Mechanical Maintenance either in water desalination and power generation plants, conventional plants, renewable plats (based on plant) where 2 years of experience are in a supervisory role.

Skills

• Practical experience and know-how of mechanical engineering
• Knowledge of downtime analysis and practical knowledge of problem solving tools
• Knowledge of maintenance management methods, of predictive inspection tools and of CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management System, good knowledge of SAP Template desirable)
• Project Management
• Detailed understanding of preventative/predictive maintenance theory
• Mentoring, coaching and people management skills
• Knowledge of the operations in water desalination and power generation plants and of NOMAC operations
• Strong planning, organizing, and integration skills
• Teamwork and effective collaboration skills