Technician - Instrument Maintenance

Ega; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 78,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Global Aluminium seeks a skilled technician to trouble-shoot, repair, re-commission and maintain field instrumentation for gas turbines, steam turbines, waste heat boilers and desalination plant to ensure efficient operation and minimize downtime. You will attend to breakdowns and planned maintenance, order spare parts, follow safety procedures, and train newer craftsmen.

Previous experience in power or desalination plants and knowledge of pneumatic/hydraulic control systems is

Qualifications

• Experience with maintenance and calibration of field instrumentation.
• Familiar with maintenance tools and plant safety.
• Experience in power or desalination plant operations.
• Ability to work under time and technical pressure.
• Able to work shifts and respond to breakdowns.

Responsibilities

• Attends to Power and Desalination plant field instrumentation breakdowns and planned maintenance work with minimum direction and supervision.
• Technically assesses the requirement of the allocated jobs and selects tools and equipment to complete such work.
• Uses the computerized maintenance system to order spare parts and maintains records of maintenance performed.
• Ensures all maintenance work follows safety procedures and plant operating requirements; reports repeated breakdowns and helps RCFA to resolve problems.
• Provides on-the-job training to new craftsmen to equip them with the necessary skills.

Skills

Engineering drawings

Instrumentation

Safety awareness

Shift work

Education

Higher secondary or Diploma

Job description

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry. EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

1. JOB PURPOSE:

To trouble-shoot, repair, re-commission and maintain efficiently field instrumentation for gas turbines, steam turbines, waste heat boilers, and desalination plant and its auxiliaries to ensure efficient operation and reduce equipment availability down time

2. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Day to day operational activities

• Attends to Power and Desalination plant field instrumentation breakdowns and planned maintenance work with minimum direction and supervision.
• Technically assesses the requirement of the allocated jobs and selects the necessary tools and equipment to complete such work.
• Using the computerized maintenance system, orders the spare parts from the warehouse and maintains records of all maintenance work completed.
• Ensures that all maintenance work is carried out in accordance with the safety procedures and plant operational requirements. Reports repeated breakdowns and assist in RCFA to identify an optimum solution to resolve the problem.
• Provides on the job training to new craftsmen in order to equip them with the necessary skills to be able to carry out maintenance repair work as planned

3. QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Higher secondary or diploma
• Must be familiar with all maintenance tools and should have good knowledge of Plant Safety. The knowledge and experience required in the position is that gained previously experience working in a power or desalination plant and with exposure preferably to any of the maintenance and calibration of the following field instrumentation:
• Pneumatic & Hydraulic valve actuation systems
• Infrared Gas Detection systems
• Working under time and technical pressure, and knowing that any mistake/error made will substantially cost the power station either on delay, equipment damage, or personnel injury.
• He can be assigned and work on shift duty. He can be called out any time to attend to breakdown work for the shift operation manager.
• He has to keep abreast with new technologies and control concepts. Working in very hot, dirty environment, and high level platforms.

Skills:

• Must be able to read and understand engineering drawings and manuals.
• Must have knowledge / experience in the field of electrical, electronics, computer, hydraulic, and pneumatic devices