Shift Engineer

Acwa; Al-Qassim Province; On-site; SAR 480,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Acwa in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Shift Supervisor to manage overall plant operation activities during the shift, ensuring safe startup/shutdown and adherence to SOPs, quality standards and production timelines.

You will coordinate with multiple departments, issue permits to work, monitor safety and environmental compliance, maintain logs, and drive improvements while responding to emergencies and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering is a must.
• Post graduate in Engineering with Power Plant Engineering preferred.
• 8 years in Power/Desalination/RO Plant required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee safe plant operation during shifts and ensure SOP compliance.
• Coordinate with all departments for plant operations and issue work permits.
• Monitor safety, environmental standards and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain daily status logs and incident/accident reporting.
• Assist in training new personnel and drive process improvements.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Post Graduate in Engineering with Power Plant Engineering

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Summary:

Responsible for overall plant operation activities in shift. Ensure that all the activities in the plant are performed in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with the approved Standard Operating Procedures, quality standards, time schedules, and other operating requirements.

Responsible for safe startup/shut down of the plant as per the Standard Operating Procedures.

• Comply with safety rules and regulations. Be fully aware of the safety hazards in the plant.
• Familiar with plant O&M agreements, P&IDs, SOPs, Work Instructions, Operation and control logics, emergency operation procedures, as well as regulatory requirements and any other related documents.
• Ensure that the plant is operated to the established standards with minimum risk to men, machine and materials, comply with safety and environmental standards.
• Coordinate with all other departments all activities that are related to plant operations during the shift and comply with safety rules and regulations. Have a complete understanding of the permit to work system applied to the plant. Issue and cancel permits to work per authorization. Coordinate activities involving plant chemistry with the Chemist.
• Follow preset operational schedules to fulfill the targeted production availability safely and efficiently. Coordinate all activities or changes in plant status with Operations Manager.
• Make quick, on the spot decisions to correct abnormalities or disturbances. Take corrective actions during a state of emergency. Supervise the start-up checklist, interlock checks, protection tests, non-routine activities like preservation, acid cleaning etc.
• Upon authorization, issue work permits for maintenance section involved. Have a complete understanding of the permit to work system procedure applied to the plant. Issue and cancel permits to work per authorization. Normalize the equipment after release and perform necessary testing to check the equipment or system after maintenance.
• Monitor the overall status of the plant and summarize activities in the log book. Fill daily plant status reports and relay all activities that occurred during the shift.
• Maintain staff evaluation records, vacation schedules etc. Prepare evaluation forms for personnel requirement.
• Prepare incident/accident reports and other reports required by the departments and submit to the concerned authorities within stipulated time period. Keep accurate records on all activities performed in the plant on regular basis.
• Assist in the training and familiarization of new personnel in the shift.
• Study and suggest any modifications which can improve plant efficiency.
• Ensure Environmental Aspect-Impact and Hazard Risk Assessment are carried out, controlled and updated.
• Implement, monitor and report IMS objectives, Targets and programs.
• Report deviations in Integrated Management System, identify root cause and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with respect to their scope of activities.
• Ensure identification of root cause for the identified non conformances/deviations and implement corrective actions/preventive actions.
• Identify the competency gap for subordinate personnel and implement necessary actions.
• Carry out periodic performance evaluation of reporting employees.
• Provide on-the-job training to new employees and evaluate their OJT Performance.
• Identification, documentation and control of hazards in assigned work area.
• Ensure aspects identified are monitored and operational controls are followed.
• Control emergencies, incidents and near misses.
• Communicate with the Load Dispatch Center.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

Educational

Desired:

Bachelor of Engineering is a must.

Preferred:

Post Graduate in Engineering with Power Plant Engineering.

Minimum Experience (Type and Duration)

Minimum:

8 years in Power / Desalination / RO Plant.

Preferable:

Experience in similar plants in Middle East.

Required Skills

• Awareness of Quality, Occupational Health & Safety and Environment Management System principles.
• Knowledge of applicable legal requirements.
• Well familiar with conducting RCA.
• Aspect Impact Assessment.
• Familiar with spillage containment.
• Capability of managing HSE emergencies.
• Well familiar with identification, classification and disposal of waste.
• Well familiar with Emission Monitoring practices and parameters.
• Well conversed with Power / Desalination / RO operational activities.
• Decision making ability under stress.
• Strong leadership quality.
• Excellent analytical skill.

Desired Certification / Job Specific Skill / Training

• SAP working knowledge is preferred.
• ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 awareness/working knowledge is preferred.