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O&M Planning Manager (Power & Water)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Role Profile: O & M Planning Manager (Power & Water)

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Reporting Structure

Head of O & M

Overview

The corporate role involves overseeing and supporting a global fleet of power and water plants, focusing on operational and maintenance excellence to ensure reliability and efficiency. Responsibilities include implementing O&M readiness plans, driving maintenance strategies, and monitoring performance against KPIs. The aim is to optimize resource utilization and enhance shareholder value through strategic planning and risk management.

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Your Job Functions (Duties & Responsibilities)

O & M Readiness

  • Develop and ensure implementation of O & M readiness Plan before taking over the Plant for commercial operations.
  • Provide design review and commissioning period support.
  • Assist in Business Continuity Studies for the plants.
  • Establish appropriate planning & maintenance procedures and computerized maintenance management processes.
  • Develop and implement corporate and site-specific procedures.

Maintenance Planning and Management

  • Drive the maintenance strategy across the fleet to ensure reliability and availability of operating plants.
  • Ensure the timely completion of the Master Equipment List, Single Point of Failure (SPOF), and criticality analysis for plant equipment.
  • Support the fleet for Spares selection.
  • Finalize the Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) plans based on the criticality analysis and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) recommendations.
  • Ensure maintenance staff authorization in accordance with Permit to Work (PTW) procedures.
  • Oversee the timely closing of Work Orders and Service Entry Sheets (SES) in the system.

Outage Management and Coordination

  • Collaborate closely with site teams to define scope of work for annual planned outages, plant modifications, improvements, and additional jobs, including budgeting and purchase order management.
  • Identify areas of concern that may affect outage or operational efficiency.

Performance Monitoring and Reporting

  • Monitor O&M business at the corporate level, function as the first line of defense for resolving plant techno commercial issues and escalate major issues to relevant corporate experts as deemed necessary.
  • Conduct site visits, identify technical issues, ensure technical issues registration and follow up, sharing lessons learned, review and improve RCA/investigation reports.
  • -Establish Management Information System (MIS) reporting, monitor plant maintenance performance against agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  • Ensure the implementation of Preventive & Predictive maintenance, systematic calibration and testing programs for all critical equipment.
  • Risk Register: Identify risks and follow up till closure.
  • Monitor and ensure local content compliance.

Value Creation and Optimization

  • Identify opportunities for improvements including feasible digitization.
  • Contribute towards value creation for the fleet budget through work resource and inventory spare optimization, as well as the implementation of initiatives.
  • Oversee and ensure development of detailed specifications for services, materials, and spares to facilitate competitive procurement while identifying alternative suppliers.

Finance

  • Review and finalize the annual budget and five-year forecast.
  • Monitor through monthly earnings review.

O & M bid Support

  • Support Business Development (BD) team with operational and maintenance cost review/inputs and review of draft Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreements.

Human Resource

  • Support for Plant recruitment.
  • Ensure head count in line with approved Org charts and approved budget.

Training and Awareness

  • Conduct awareness sessions for key project agreements and O&M procedures.
  • Promote safety culture.
  • Promote optimization and value creation mindset.


Qualifications & Skill Sets

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
  • Minimum 20 years of total professional experience.
  • 15+ years in Maintenance of Power & Water Plants.
  • Maintenance expertise in Electrical /I & C.

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