Plant Operations Manager

ENGIE Middle East; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 331,000 - 477,000; Full time

Job summary

Engie SA in the United Arab Emirates seeks an Operations Manager to lead and manage Plant Shift Teams, ensuring safe, efficient and reliable operation of the plant and meeting generation and cost targets within environmental limits.

You will report to the Plant General Manager and provide dynamic leadership in a culturally diverse environment, developing staff competence, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance with PWPA and O&M agreements while driving safety performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field.
• NEBOSH IGC or equivalent would be an advantage.
• Minimum ten years of operational experience in modern gas turbines power and desalination plants.
• Fluent in English with excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• Experience in DCS and PLC systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directs, supervises and coordinates the activities of operation and maintenance personnel.
• Reviews shift logs to ensure safe and reliable operation and handover.
• Makes decisions on plant operational problems with immediate, medium and long-term impact.
• Evaluates defects or maintenance work with potential safety or commercial impact.
• Inspects high-priority maintenance activities and ensures quality and timely completion.
• Reports to the Plant General Manager for serious deviations and remedial actions.

Skills

Leadership

English fluency

Operations management

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Management studies (preferred)

Tools

DCS

PLC

Job description

We are looking for an Operations Manager, reporting directly into a Plant General Manager, to lead and manage Plant Shift Teams; ensuring ensure safe, efficient and reliable operation of the plant, meeting generation and cost targets within strict environmental limits, and providing dynamic leadership in a culturally diverse environment

Duties and Responsibilities

• Directs, supervises and coordinates the activities of all operation and maintenance personnel
• Reviews, continually, the shift log entries to ensure relevant information to the safe and reliable operation of the equipment is logged and handed-over
• Makes decisions, or assists others to make decisions, on plant operational problems with immediate, medium and long term consequences
• Evaluates and prioritizes defects or maintenance work planned or carried out with potential safety or commercial impact to the operational availability of the plant
• Inspects and checks high priority maintenance activities monitoring work in progress, liaising with maintenance personnel to ensure work is completed with quality and on time
• Reports to the Plant General Manager any serious deviation from normal operating conditions and takes or recommends remedial corrective actions
• Uses available diagnostic and surveillance tools to check parameters and trends to identify or prevent deviations from historical data or to determine the cause of trips and other operational events
• Has detailed knowledge of the PWPA and O&M agreement
• Participates in fire drills as defined in the emergency management procedures
• Oversees attendance of shift staff and manages holidays in line with operational needs through the effective management of the shift rota
• Supports the development of operations staff competence, coaching and sharing expertise and skill
• Ensures technical and/or HS&E training plans are created for and followed by apprentices and shift staff
• Ensures all Operations staff is appraised and developed in line with the business needs
• Cooperates with the development of succession plans
• Writes, assists, and/or suggests revisions or modifications needed in the operating procedures
• Cooperates with the preparation of the Production budget
• Performs the role of Subject Matter Expert in specialized areas of the plant and provides training to staff when necessary
• Supports development of Emiratis within the team
• Engages in performance management processes by suggesting and agreeing objectives and meeting targets. Provides support to individual’s in achieving the set targets whenever necessary
• Follow the ICs/OT Cybersecurity’s Procedures, guidelines and best work practices
• Ensure that operation department is in full compliance with cyber security compliance
• Engages in Site, Regional and Corporate initiatives
• Actively involved as a Department leader contributing to the general motivation of subordinates and colleagues
• Take leadership and ownership in correct and consistant implementation of company safety rule.
• Develop the operational staff peform various roles and responsibilites under safetey rule
• Follow management change procedure and resposible for shfort and temproary modification
• Actively participate in RCA of all operation and safety rule related incidents/accidents
• Incident reporting to shareholders and stakholders
• Managing dispatch center and offtakers related to PWPA compliance

Ethics, Health & Safety and Business Continuity

• Adheres to the required level of moral and ethical standard for employability in the company
• Applies all HSE Policies and Procedures and continually strives to improve all aspects of HSE Performance
• Responsible to immediate Supervisor ensuring compliance with the facility’s Environmental Compliance Program taking all reasonable precautions to prevent incidents of non-compliance personally or on the part of others.
• Adheres to ITM’s Policies in line with the policies of the owner companies and the law
• Responsible for one’s own Health and Safety and that of his/her colleagues in accordance with the Health & Safety and Environmental Policies & Procedures of the Company
• No tolerance for unsafe conditions or unsafe acts
• Use stop work authority when observing an unsafe condition or unsafe act
• Lives the values of ITM
• Promotes open, honest and positive communication
• Respects each other as well as the cultural diversity within ITM
• Maintain the high standard of ITM
• Promote and instill cooperation and leadership
• Share information and knowledge
• Take ownership
• Ensuure that opeation team is fully engage with various HSE inititates
• Implementation of plans to ensure that safety rule audit is being done on regular basis for contious improvement
• Delegate the authority and responsibility officially while away from the site or on leave
• Comply with the requirement of Business Continuity Management of ITM
• Develop and implement the Business Continuity action plan
• Fire Prevention Inspection Upon receipt of a Fire Prevention Inspection Report; ensure that all noted issues and concerns are corrected as appropriate
• Hazardous Material and Waste Management Inform employees and contractors that hazardous materials and hazardous waste.

Minimum qualification and experience

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or higher education in the relavint area
• A qualification in management studies is preferred
• Experience in DCS and PLC systems is preferred
• Fluent in English with excellent report writing and presentation skills

Experience

• Minimum ten years of previous operational experience in modern gas turbines power and desalination plants is preferred

License / Others

• NEBOSH IGC or equivalent would be an advantage

• A proven track record of working to demanding safety standards
• Effective communication skills to disseminate information, ability to motivate staff and be a competent co-ordinator, and have both the technical knowledge and experience to propose and challenge objectives
• Technical competence within the appropriate disciplines of engineering
• The ability to anticipate and respond effectively to the operational demands on the station
• Defining and implementing operating policies and practices
• Knowledge of local environmental legislation and principles of management
• Knowledge of contract management and the ability to negotiate
• Working knowledge of commercial contracts and agreements i.e. PWPA and O&M Agreement
• Knowledge of the principles of statutory, insurance, technical and safety issues relating to power plant
• Budget Management
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills
• Used to working within a multi-cultural environment
• Able to see the commercial consequences of decisions – thinks about and plans for positive outcomes
• Excellent presentation skills
• Motivated and eager to contribute and learn, employee looking for a major challenge and the opportunity to excel and grow
• A comprehensive knowledge of mainstream operations of modern combined cycle gas turbine plant, multistage desalination plant, fired boiler plant (oil & gas), steam turbine plant and associated auxiliaries
• A sound knowledge of power plant chemistry and efficiency

Physical Effort

• Moderate physical effort involving standing and walking during normal and emergency operational conditions 80% of the working time
• The Operations Manager will work in a controlled hazardous environment of the plant

Exposure to Risks

• Risks inherent to the job of the Operations Manager in the control room and while performing inspections, site visits, operations and maintenance activities, etc.
• Traffic/automobile accidents, ergonomic problems and accidents