Asset Engineer - Mechanical - Doha, Qatar

About the employer

Role overview

Asset management and reliability

• Develop mechanical asset management plans aligned with the overall asset management strategy and manage assets from acquisition and commissioning through operation, maintenance, refurbishment, replacement, and disposal.
• Maintain accurate asset registers and assess asset health, remaining useful life, criticality, and renewal requirements; conduct FMECA and RCM studies.
• Monitor pumps, blowers, compressors, gearboxes, mixers, agitators, centrifuges, screens, conveyors, valves, actuators, lifting equipment, and other mechanical assets at treatment plants and pumping stations.
• Develop preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies; analyze failures, downtime, vibration, lubrication, alignment, balancing, and maintenance history.
• Support condition monitoring using vibration and oil analysis, lubrication monitoring, alignment, balancing, and other applicable predictive techniques.
• Lead or support root cause analysis for major failures, monitor corrective actions, and track availability, reliability, failure frequency, downtime, MTBF, MTTR, and maintenance cost.
• Identify deteriorated, obsolete, inefficient, underperforming, or high-risk assets and recommend renewal, refurbishment, or replacement; assess OEM support, spares, maintainability, and lifecycle risks.

Technical support, data, and improvement

• Review equipment specifications, datasheets, drawings, technical submissions, and vendor documents; provide technical input to procurement, refurbishment, replacement, upgrades, and commissioning.
• Review critical mechanical spare-parts needs and recommend strategic or insurance spares; coordinate with operations, maintenance, OEMs, suppliers, contractors, and service providers.
• Maintain asset information, maintenance history, condition data, and technical documents in CMMS, ERP, or asset management systems.
• Support lifecycle cost and Total Cost of Ownership assessments and develop replacement and renewal forecasts.
• Prepare reports on asset condition, reliability, failures, risks, maintenance requirements, replacement priorities, and lifecycle costs.
• Promote continuous improvement in mechanical reliability, maintenance strategies, energy efficiency, and lifecycle performance.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Typically 5–8 years of relevant experience in mechanical asset management, maintenance, reliability, or engineering.
• Experience in wastewater treatment, water utilities, process plants, industrial facilities, or O&M is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of pumps, blowers, rotating equipment, mechanical treatment equipment, valves, and maintenance strategies.
• Experience with condition monitoring, reliability improvement, and CMMS, ERP, or Asset Management Systems.
• Strong analytical, technical reporting, and problem-solving skills; fluent English.
• Key competencies include asset lifecycle management, condition and criticality assessment, FMECA, and RCM studies.

Location and work setting

• The position is for Doha, Qatar, and covers wastewater treatment plants and associated O&M facilities.