Facilities Maintenance Shift Supervisor

Job Purpose

Our Emirates Engineering Facilities department is dedicated to creating and maintaining premier environments for all engineering needs. From state-of-the-art hangars and workshops to efficient material stores, offices, and training spaces, we ensure every facility supports and enhances engineering excellence. We manage electrical power, air conditioning, fire safety, cleaning, specialized equipment, landscaping, and compressed air systems, while supporting facility expansion and maintenance.

Facilities Maintenance Shift Supervisor will supervise a team of maintenance staff carrying out maintenance, repairs and installation activities on equipment and building services systems throughout the Engineering Facilities complex, and to ensure all such activities are carried out to the manufacturer's recommended guidelines and recognised maintenance engineering practices.

In This Role, You Will

• To supervise maintenance and repair activities on aircraft maintenance support equipment, building services equipment and electro/mechanical installations.
• Ensure completion of corrective and preventive work orders accurately and that all documentation and records are maintained and updated in the facilities computerised maintenance management system.
• Prepare material requirements and estimates for maintenance and repair tasks.
• Monitor the Energy Management, Building Management, Fire Alarm/Detection, Chiller Management and Emergency Generator Systems and initiate necessary action to rectify any abnormalities occurring during the shift period.
• Respond to emergency situations such as activation of fire alarms, BMS alarms power failures, passenger/vehicle lift faults when required and carry out necessary emergency procedures and contingency plans.
• Liaise with shift staff to assist specialist sub-contractors while they carry out maintenance and repairs to building services and aircraft maintenance support equipment.
• Prepare shift rosters and ensure all shift inspection routines and assigned tasks are carried out as per the planned maintenance schedule, effectively and in the required time frame.
• Ensure that plant and equipment is operated efficiently and that energy consumption is conserved wherever possible during the shift period.
• Assist in issuing of hot work permits and red tags for impairments to the fire detection and suppression systems. Ensuring that all such permits are forwarded to EK Insurance department and EK's Insurance company immediately upon issue. Provide frequent updates on the status of impairments to the insurance company and EK group Insurance department.
• Manage and control the issuing of Permit to Work for the contractors to work in Engineering premises. Ensuring that all such permits are updated and issued in accordance with the company policy.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• 12 Years schooling or equivalent
• Experience 4+ yrs Engineering,
• Other Knowledge/skills
• Electrical, Civil or Mechanical building maintenance experience within a large industrial environment ,preferably in the Aviation industry.
• Previous supervisory experience.
• Must possess a valid U.A.E driving license.
• Must be able to read, write and communicate proficiently in English.
• Must be computer literate with good knowledge of MS Word.
  

Details of Safety Sensitive role Yes/No

• Working at height Yes
• Exposure to hazardous energy systems Yes
• Heavy lifting Yes
• Working in areas with motorised mobile equipment Yes
• Work in confined spaces Yes
• Contact with contaminations materials (Humans/Animals/Chemicals) Yes
• Contact with dangerous good Yes
• Work in an extremely noisy environment Yes
• Work in heat Yes Working with pressurised substances Yes
• Exposure to fixed protruding sharp objects Yes
• Exposure to contact with moving/falling objects. Yes
• Airport driving permit Yes
• Driving a vibrating equipment No
  
  

Salary & Benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what’s it like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.