Planning Engineer will coordinate the planning and execution of operations and maintenance programs, unit outage / shut-down and other major turnaround activities within ACWA NOMAC’s assigned plant in accordance with overall maintenance plans, HSE guidelines and quality standards to ensure plant availability and equipment reliability.

Planning Management

• Review and issue daily schedules of maintenance activities and ensure that work orders are entered on SAP, and are executed according to priorities and resource availabilities.
• Prepare major maintenance and turnaround activity plans and liaise with other operations, technical services and maintenance units to monitor major shutdowns and turnaround activities until completion, in addition to preparing daily shutdown progress reports indicating percentage of actual work completed against plan.
• Monitor the execution of preventive and corrective maintenance programs and activities, as well as maintaining the monthly planning schedule on MS-project detailing activity start and finish dates, equipment tag numbers and other details.
• Verify material requirements and equipment specifications and any other technical issues, as required, with maintenance and other operations units in order to expedite the purchase of reserve stock materials.

Technical Guidance

• Review plant modification and other engineering projects plans and drawings, in addition to monitoring physical execution and completion of works, providing technical advice and assistance when needed.
• Prepare various maintenance and inspection management reports including status reports, statistics, monthly work order backlog analysis, shutdown reports, actual cost vs. planned budget variance analysis, etc., to monitor the effectiveness of maintenance and inspection programs and be able to recommend changes as required.

Outage Planning

• Liaise with Maintenance Manager and Engineers in the maintenance section to determine resource requirements in order to coordinate manpower outsourcing, material, equipment and services as required.
• Develop a project schedule to define outage goals, assign resources, finalize the scope and budget estimation and purchase orders as well as to identify the critical path to lay out the coordination strategy and direct the overall execution for both the interrelated and independent tasks.
• Prepare the Administrative procedures, Technical procedures, quality plans, shutdown safety plan and temporary services/facilities plan and share it with the plant and contract staff to ensure they are all updated and well-versed with the procedures.
• Plan and coordinate the outage coordination meetings with the stakeholders, to ensure robust planning and execution and timely escalation and resolution of issues.

Documentation

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

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor degree holder in Engineering (Electrical/ Mechanical/ Instrument Technology)

Minimum Experience:

• 7-10 years’ experience in Maintenance Planning in water desalination and power generation plants where 2 years of experience are in a supervisory role.

Skills

• Practical experience and know-how of electrical / mechanical and instrument technology 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.
• Strong planning, organizing, and integration skills
• Experience of having conducted at least one outage for critical electrical equipment / shut-down for critical mechanical machinery
• Teamwork and effective collaboration skills