Assistant Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide supervisors and technicians carrying out preventive and corrective maintenance and minor modifications on MEP facilities.
• Support the Senior Engineer in coordinating subcontractors for fire systems, automatic sliding doors, and water-tank cleaning.
• Ensure project HSEQ compliance and lead the team in maintaining a zero-incident environment.
• Coordinate resources, spare parts, and consumables for daily technical activities.
• Diagnose electrical and mechanical equipment failures, replace faulty equipment, and arrange workshop repairs.
• Lead functional testing, troubleshooting, assembly and disassembly, and repairs or replacement of defective parts across doors, fire systems, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, and UPS equipment.
• Follow maintenance procedures and project instructions and ensure operational KPIs for response, repair, and preventive-maintenance work orders are met.
• Review fault reports, prepare preventive-maintenance plans, and write abnormality, inaccessibility, condition-survey, and incident reports with corrective actions.
• Report to Operations management and Senior Engineers in a timely manner.
• Maintain tool and spare inventories, order supplies, ensure tools are calibrated, and maintain computerized maintenance records.
• Inspect and maintain the tunnel ventilation system as specified in the maintenance plan.
• Communicate with Control Centre Controllers and the client representative.

Systems and technical skills

• Experience with IBM Maximo system (MMS).
• Experience with a Building Management System (BMS) or Environmental Control System (ECS).
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with multiple BMS and PLC protocols.
• Ability to program and configure BMS and ECS systems and components.
• Troubleshooting skills in MEP systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; ability to learn new software applications.

Qualifications and requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Valid UAE driving license and own vehicle.
• Two to three years of supervisory or management experience overseeing MEP technicians is preferred.
• Construction experience is preferred.
• Hands-on experience is preferred.
• Ability to prepare engineering data analysis, reports, maintenance and testing procedures, equipment specifications, method statements, and risk assessments.

Technical assets