Maintenance Strategy / RUL / Lifecycle Engineer

Duruper; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Duruper is seeking a seasoned Maintenance Strategy / RUL / Lifecycle Engineer to evaluate and optimize maintenance strategies for transmission and utility assets. The role focuses on preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance, estimating RUL, and developing lifecycle management plans to improve reliability and reduce costs.

Responsibilities include analysing maintenance history and costs, applying RCM principles, and delivering lifecycle cost evaluations and KPI reports

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance strategy, asset management, or reliability engineering.
• Strong experience in transmission asset maintenance, preferably within power utilities.
• Knowledge of RCM, CBM, and PDM.
• Experience in Remaining Useful Life (RUL) assessment and asset lifecycle management.
• Ability to analyse maintenance history, failure trends, backlog, and maintenance costs.
• Experience in maintenance task analysis, optimisation, and lifecycle cost evaluation.
• Knowledge of asset health assessment, degradation mechanisms, and replacement planning.
• CMRP certification preferred; RCM facilitator / RCM2 certification desirable.
• ISO 55001 asset management awareness is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Review maintenance procedures, technical manuals, task frequencies, and work execution effectiveness.
• Analyse maintenance backlog, repeat defects, PM compliance, failure history, and maintenance costs.
• Assess asset condition, age, operating duty, environment, and degradation mechanisms.
• Estimate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of transmission and utility assets.
• Apply Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) principles to optimise maintenance tasks and frequencies.
• Develop maintenance optimisation, refurbishment, replacement, and upgrade recommendations.
• Conduct lifecycle cost analysis and assess risk-based investment options.
• Develop maintenance KPIs, performance reports, and lifecycle improvement plans.
• Prepare technical business cases and recommendations for asset management decisions.

Skills

Maintenance strategy

Asset management

Reliability engineering

RCM

CBM

PDM

RUL assessment

Lifecycle cost analysis

Risk-based investment

RCM2

Job description

Job Summary

The Maintenance Strategy / RUL / Lifecycle Engineer is responsible for evaluating and optimising maintenance strategies for transmission and utility assets, including preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance. The role involves assessing asset health, estimating Remaining Useful Life (RUL), analysing maintenance effectiveness, and developing lifecycle management plans to improve reliability, reduce costs, and optimise asset performance.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Evaluate preventive, predictive, condition-based, and corrective maintenance strategies.
• Review maintenance procedures, technical manuals, task frequencies, and work execution effectiveness.
• Analyse maintenance backlog, repeat defects, PM compliance, failure history, and maintenance costs.
• Assess asset condition, age, operating duty, environment, and degradation mechanisms.
• Estimate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of transmission and utility assets.
• Apply Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) principles to optimise maintenance tasks and frequencies.
• Develop maintenance optimisation, refurbishment, replacement, and upgrade recommendations.
• Conduct lifecycle cost analysis and assess risk-based investment options.
• Develop maintenance KPIs, performance reports, and lifecycle improvement plans.
• Prepare technical business cases and recommendations for asset management decisions.

Mandatory Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in maintenance strategy, asset management, or reliability engineering.
• Strong experience in transmission asset maintenance, preferably within power utilities.
• Knowledge of RCM, condition-based maintenance (CBM), and predictive maintenance (PDM).
• Experience in Remaining Useful Life (RUL) assessment and asset lifecycle management.
• Ability to analyse maintenance history, failure trends, backlog, and maintenance costs.
• Experience in maintenance task analysis, optimisation, and lifecycle cost evaluation.
• Knowledge of asset health assessment, degradation mechanisms, and replacement planning.
• CMRP certification preferred; RCM facilitator / RCM2 certification desirable.
• ISO 55001 asset management awareness is an added advantage.