Maintenance Engineer

Job Title: Maintenance Engineer

Work Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job Type: Full Time

Your Key Tasks:

Use experience and expertise to coach and guide assigned work of Maintenance Technicians within expected timelines to the quality required by spending a significant part of day on the shop floor (6/2 rule) – 75% of time on the floor and only 25% in meetings or administrative tasks.

• Assess skills gaps and seek to close these through timely and appropriate training interventions.
• Provide appropriate equipment and training to ensure safe working practices are upheld and environmental standards are adhered to.
• Liaise with Maintenance Planner to ensure effective and efficient use of resources and accuracy of plan.
• Ensure equipment is available to meet production plans by applying the WCM PM Methodology.
• Validate standards applied by operators performing autonomous maintenance tasks and review with First Line Managers in production as necessary.
• Review entries in the CMMS for accuracy and timeliness and take action where required.
• Assess opportunities for continuous improvement in both preventive and predictive maintenance and build into ongoing plans.

Safety

• Leading all Maintenance on site with compliance to site safety requirements
• Developing and maintaining task registers for routine vs non-routine activities
• Developing and maintaining Risk assessments for Routine activities
• Closing all identified risks from risk prediction activities in ALL areas of the factory that fall under Engineering and Maintenance team
• Key responsible for Machinery safety (supporting site competent person during handover and eventually assuming responsibility as site competent person) on the site

Maintenance

• Responsible for complete factory maintenance, breakdowns and MTBF & MTTR KPIs
• Plantwide breakdown analysis (Daily tracking and analysis of ALL breakdowns, Detailed root cause analysis for all TOP breakdowns, Implementation of corrective actions from analysis and actions coming out of all other teams (quality, safety etc))
• Reduction of Breakdowns in numbers and % contribution to OEE loss in packing (Developing Maintenance Plans, Ensuring maintenance plans reach to component level, Executing planned maintenance activities and ensuring OTIF compliance, Tracking maintenance compliance against breakdown reduction, Lead all major and minor modifications for OEE Improvement )
• Reduction of Breakdowns in numbers and % contribution to OEE loss in making (approx. 800 Equipment e.g. valves, pumps etc)
• Developing Maintenance Plans
• Ensuring maintenance plans reach to component level
• Executing planned maintenance activities and ensuring OTIF compliance
• Tracking maintenance compliance against breakdown reduction
• Lead all major and minor modifications
• Reduction of Breakdowns in numbers and % contribution to OEE loss in Utilities (approx. 800 Equipment e.g. valves, pumps etc)
• Initiating, Negotiating & Managing Annual maintenance contract for Utilities equipment
• Ensuring all utilities equipment maintenance is done on time, in full
• Lead all major and minor modifications
• Selection and Maintenance of specific mechanical and electromechanical components
• Able to analyze deterioration of different components with time, force, pressure, temperature, use etc
• Able to provide basic design (including engineering drawings + P&ID) and selection of components based on process parameters, user requirements and usage conditions
• Go into in depth analysis of failure modes of components

Utilities

• Ensure day to day operations of all utilities equipment
• Drive maintenance agenda either through on-site technicians or AMCs
• Drive projects to improve performance of utilities equipment or generate savings

Automation and Digitalization

• Identify needs, understand and tabulate requirements
• Give basic system design for automation projects
• Calculate cost/benefit ratios
• Lead automation projects for area of responsibility

Cost

• Maintenance Cost tracking against volumes/other variables
• Develop forecast models for all R&M Cost
• Track FC vs Actual Weekly cost
• Forecast R&M Budget in line with PM plans
• Line wise breakup
• Cost phasing for R&M Budget
• Track spends against forecast
• Identify reduction opportunities in all cost (Utility + R&M + Manpower) to meet factory cost target year on year

Lean Manufacturing or similar Management Systems e.g. TPM, Six Sigma, WCM

• PM (Professional Maintenance) PILLAR LEADER
• Core member of
  • AM (Autonomous Maintenance)
  • QA/QC (Quality Assurance/Control)

Projects

• Innovation projects
• Capacity projects
• Cost & Energy Saving projects
• Focused Improvement projects
• Various Maintenance and Infrastructure related projects

Skills and Experience

• Mechatronics/Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineer with experience in Manufacturing and/or Maintenance
• Able to demonstrate EXCELLENT engineering acumen – design and analysis of parts, machines, and systems using
• 3D modelling software
• AutoCAD
• FEA (finite element analysis methods)
• Theoretical data for machine & system design
• Expertise in mechanical equipment and electromechanical equipment and related components (e.g., packing and filling lines, pumps, heat exchangers, components such as bearings and pneumatic cylinders)
• Excellent knowledge of Condition Based Maintenance
• Expert knowledge of MS Excel to be able to build efficiency and energy prediction models
• Able to present information and trends to the management in an easy to understand and action-oriented way
• Understanding and experience in Data Science/Programming will be an advantage
• Knowledge of PowerBI/Tableau etc
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and ability to deploy a model
• Knowledge of programming languages like Python or C#

Qualification and Experience

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering or Robotics, or a closely related technical field
• Intermediate knowledge in MS office/SAP/any CMMS platform
• Experience in a production environment, particularly in manufacturing or maintenance teams
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
• Aptitude to learn and display agility
• Awareness of all the general safety protocols to be followed in a Factory