Maintenance Technician - Elevators & Escalators

About This Role

Certified as a Top Employer for UAE, Qatar, KSA, and Oman; KONE is dedicated to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent people practices.

We are committed to fostering a great work culture and inspiring the highest standards of quality and efficiency from the team putting our people first and creating a workplace that nurtures collaboration, diversity, growth, and well-being.

KONE Middle East, Turkey & Africa (KMTA) is embarking upon an exciting growth phase through direct presence in 7 regions to complement our growth plans, we are looking for Maintenance Technicians with a service mindset to provide professional service to our customers. In this role, you will be at the core of KONE - an everyday hero who makes people's lives easier. You will work towards ensuring quality service, improving equipment safety and performance, and promoting regular and proactive on-site communication to the customer and the people using the equipment. As a maintenance technician, you will be performing regular maintenance checks and tasks, as well as attending call-outs.

Responsibilities

• Customer relationship management
• Responsible for customer satisfaction through quality of service and through regular, proactive, and precise on-site communication (callout ETA, job performed, etc)
• Responsible for accurate and real time back reporting of work performed (at the equipment level) in order to ensure the accuracy of e-Optimum and Customer Notification.
• Accountable for maintaining excellent relationships with the customers, the contact person and end-users presents on site, by applying the Ambassador attitude.
• Accountable for equipment safety and performance
• Accountable for managing the site environment during service operations
• Accountable for identifying site risk, and communicate them to his supervisor
• Accountable to take immediate action on site in case of high risk identification and to apply the escalation procedure
• Accountable for identifying “unplanned” service repairs based on the equipment needs, contacting the on-site contact person, get his approval if not covered by the contract, and perform them

Service operations

• Accountable for the end-users and the site safety
• Accountable for the safe working environment
• Responsible for safe working practices and carrying out the operations according to maintenance instructions and safety instructions.
• Accountable for the execution of the service visits (planned maintenance, callouts and service repairs) respecting the schedule and time limit (callout), the quality standards, the time allocation and the processes
• Responsible for effectively planning his workload, in conjunction with the service supervisor
• Accountable for raising sales lead to his supervisor
• Accountable for very precise and timely back reporting of the work done according to the process
• Responsible for submitting time sheets based on the execution
• Responsible for managing his proximity stock (shelving, inventory, stock transfer, etc), identifying the spare need, requesting the spare to his supervisor.
• Responsible for keeping the service tooling, van, instruments, etc safe, maintained and in good condition
• Contributes to the ongoing improvement of the products, the methods and the safety by feedback to the PCM organisation and his supervisor
• Leadership / People management
• Responsible for regular update of his supervisor on all relevant information
• Responsible for being familiar with all aspects of lift and associated technology and accountable for attending the proposed training
• May be required to give training/coaching to persons nominated by the supervisor

Requirements

• ITI/Vocational Certificate course /Diploma Engineering in Electrical/Electronics/Automation streams or equivalent
• Good verbal and written English communication skills
• Candidates with basic IT skills will be given a preference
• Candidates with basic digital foundation skills will be the right candidate for this position
• Minimum 5 years of solid Preventive Maintenance and Troubleshooting experience with a reputed elevator company is a must
• Having a valid GCC driving license is an added advantage
• Candidates meeting the above requirements should only apply for this position.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life. Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/