Operations Manager

Job purpose

Plant operations and maintenance

• Direct, supervise, and coordinate operations and maintenance personnel.
• Review shift logs and handovers to ensure information relevant to safe, reliable equipment operation is recorded.
• Make or support decisions on plant operating problems with immediate, medium- and long-term consequences.
• Evaluate and prioritize defects and maintenance work with potential safety or commercial impact on plant availability.
• Monitor high-priority maintenance work and coordinate with maintenance personnel to ensure timely, quality completion.
• Report serious deviations from normal operating conditions to the Plant General Manager and take or recommend corrective action.
• Use diagnostic and surveillance tools to monitor parameters and trends, identify deviations, and investigate trips and other operational events.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of the PWPA and O&M agreement.
• Participate in fire drills under emergency management procedures.

People and operational planning

• Oversee shift staff attendance and manage holidays through effective shift rota management.
• Coach operations staff, share expertise, and support development of staff competence.
• Ensure technical and/or HSE training plans are created and followed for apprentices and shift staff.
• Ensure operations staff are appraised and developed in line with business needs and cooperate in succession planning.
• Write, assist with, or suggest revisions to operating procedures.
• Contribute to production budget preparation and serve as a subject matter expert in specialized plant areas, providing staff training when necessary.
• Support development of Emiratis within the team and contribute to performance management, objectives, and targets.

Safety, compliance and engagement

• Follow ICS/OT cybersecurity procedures and ensure the operations department complies with cybersecurity requirements.
• Participate in site, regional, and corporate initiatives and contribute as a department leader.
• Take ownership of consistent implementation of company safety rules and develop staff in roles and responsibilities under those rules.
• Follow management-of-change procedures and be responsible for short-term and temporary modifications.
• Participate in root cause analysis of operations- and safety-related incidents and accidents, and report incidents to shareholders and stakeholders.
• Manage the dispatch center and offtakers in relation to PWPA compliance.
• Apply HSE policies, support environmental compliance, prevent non-compliance, and use stop-work authority when unsafe conditions or acts are observed.
• Promote communication, cooperation, leadership, knowledge sharing, ownership, and engagement in HSE initiatives.
• Support regular safety-rule audits and comply with the company’s business continuity requirements.

Requirements

• Provide dynamic leadership to shift teams in a culturally diverse environment.
• Have detailed knowledge of the PWPA and O&M agreement.
• Support development of operations staff competence through coaching and sharing expertise.
• Ensure technical and/or HSE training plans are created and followed for apprentices and shift staff.
• Follow ICS/OT cybersecurity procedures and ensure the operations department complies with cybersecurity requirements.
• Apply HSE policies and procedures and support environmental compliance.
• Take ownership of consistent implementation of company safety rules.