Shift in Charge

Position and summary

Plant operations and safety

• Comply with safety rules and understand plant hazards.
• Operate the plant to established standards while minimizing risks to people, equipment, and materials and meeting safety and environmental standards.
• Coordinate shift activities with other departments and the chemist; understand and administer authorized permits to work.
• Follow operating schedules and production-availability targets and coordinate plant status changes with the Operations Manager.
• Address abnormalities and emergencies; supervise startup checklists, interlock checks, protection tests, and non-routine work.
• Issue and cancel authorized maintenance permits, normalize released equipment, and perform post-maintenance tests.
• Monitor plant status, maintain the logbook, prepare daily status reports, and record shift activities.
• Prepare incident and accident reports, maintain plant records, and submit required reports within deadlines.
• Train new personnel, assess competency gaps, and evaluate subordinate employees and on-the-job training.

Compliance and improvement

• Maintain awareness of plant agreements, P&IDs, procedures, work instructions, control logic, emergency procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Study and suggest modifications to improve plant efficiency.
• Carry out and update environmental aspect-impact and hazard-risk assessments.
• Implement, monitor, and report integrated management system objectives, targets, and programs.
• Report deviations, identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Control emergencies, incidents, near misses, hazards, and operational environmental controls.
• Communicate with the load dispatch center.

Education and experience

• Bachelor of Engineering is required.
• At least 8 years of experience in a power, desalination, or RO plant is required.
• A postgraduate engineering qualification with power plant engineering is preferred.
• Experience in similar plants in the Middle East is preferable.
• The role requires readiness to work in a remote location.

Required skills

• Awareness of quality, occupational health and safety, and environmental management system principles and applicable legal requirements.
• Knowledge of root cause analysis, hazard risk assessment, and environmental aspect-impact assessment.
• Investigation skills; familiarity with spillage containment and HSE emergency management.
• Knowledge of waste identification, classification, and disposal, and emission monitoring practices and parameters.
• Familiarity with power, desalination, or RO operational activities.
• Decision-making under stress, leadership, and analytical skills.

Preferred knowledge

• SAP working knowledge is preferred.
• Awareness or working knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 is preferred.