Manager - Field Maintenance (UAE National)
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The Manager - Field Maintenance is responsible of leading the execution of maintenance activities in one of four key areas: Red Side Maintenance, White Side Maintenance, Electri.
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Overview
- The Manager - Field Maintenance is responsible of leading the execution of maintenance activities in one of four key areas: Red Side Maintenance, White Side Maintenance, Electrical & Instrumentation Maintenance, Shift & Pump Maintenance. The role ensures safe, reliable, and cost-effective maintenance execution to maximize equipment availability, support production targets, and maintain compliance with all regulatory, quality, and safety standards.
- Success in this role will be demonstrated by high equipment reliability, reduced downtime, adherence to budget, and improved team capability in supporting continuous refinery operations.
- KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Policies, Processes & Procedures
- Implement and ensure compliance with all maintenance policies, procedures, and standards.
- Drive adherence to statutory and legislative requirements (e.g., MOHRE, API codes, electrical safety standards).
- Authorize and implement improvements to procedures, ensuring alignment with EGA’s reliability and safety strategy
Budget
- Manage maintenance budgets across all refinery areas, ensuring resources are effectively allocated to maximize equipment availability.
- Support planning and optimization of major shutdown budgets and resources to minimize production losses and costs.
- Ensure cost control in day-to-day operations and contract workforce utilization.
Day-To-Day Maintenance Execution
- Oversee daily preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance for pumps, mechanical systems, electrical/instrumentation, and refinery process equipment.
- Ensure shift teams are properly resourced, briefed, and supervised to deliver planned and emergency work safely and efficiently.
- Monitor schedule adherence, review deviations, and approve changes to ensure minimal disruption to operations.
- Ensure availability of spares and materials for critical assets.
Inspections & Equipment Integrity
- Ensure compliance with inspection programs for pressure vessels, tanks, rotating equipment, and E&I systems.
- Drive proactive condition monitoring and predictive maintenance techniques to avoid unplanned downtime.
- Lead inspection and repair activities during planned and unplanned shutdowns, ensuring compliance with API and other relevant standards.
- Collaboration and Networking
- Coordinate closely with Reliability, Operations, and Major Maintenance teams to align maintenance execution with refinery priorities.
- Lead effective communication between maintenance supervisors, contractors, and cross-functional teams.
- Support RCA investigations and ensure corrective/preventive actions are effectively executed.
People Management
- Manage, mentor, and develop supervisors and technicians across all maintenance areas.
- Ensure training and upskilling of team members to reduce dependency on contractors and support cross-skilling initiatives.
- Drive a culture of safety, ownership, and continuous improvement across the maintenance workforce.
Continuous Improvement
- Implement lean maintenance practices to optimize resource use, reduce downtime, and improve reliability.
- Promote digital tools (e.g., CMMS, inspection apps) for better planning, reporting, and tracking.
- Continuously challenge and improve maintenance strategies to deliver cost savings and higher reliability.
Safety, Quality & Environment
- Lead by example in driving EGA’s safety culture and ensuring compliance with life-saving rules.
- Ensure maintenance work is executed safely, with proper permits, risk assessments, and quality checks.
- Maintain accountability for environmental compliance in all maintenance activities.
Related Assignments
- Performs other related duties or assignments as directed.
Guidelines
- Thinking within clearly defined policies, standards and specific objectives.
Decision Making
- Operates within defined policies, budgets, and objectives.
- Authorized to approve deviations from maintenance plans and allocate resources as required.
- Directly influences production reliability and refinery throughput through maintenance decisions.
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