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
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Develop and ensure implementation of O & M readiness Plan before taking over the Plant for commercial operations.
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Provide design review and commissioning period support.
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Assist in Business Continuity Studies for the plants.
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Establish appropriate planning & maintenance procedures and computerized maintenance management processes.
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Develop and implement corporate and site-specific procedures.
Maintenance Planning and Management
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Drive the maintenance strategy across the fleet to ensure reliability and availability of operating plants.
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Ensure the timely completion of the Master Equipment List, Single Point of Failure (SPOF), and criticality analysis for plant equipment.
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Support the fleet for Spares selection.
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Finalize the Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) plans based on the criticality analysis and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) recommendations.
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Ensure maintenance staff authorization in accordance with Permit to Work (PTW) procedures.
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Oversee the timely closing of Work Orders and Service Entry Sheets (SES) in the system.
Outage Management and Coordination
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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.
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Identify areas of concern that may affect outage or operational efficiency.
Performance Monitoring and Reporting
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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.
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Conduct site visits, identify technical issues, ensure technical issues registration and follow up, sharing lessons learned, review and improve RCA/investigation reports.
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-Establish Management Information System (MIS) reporting, monitor plant maintenance performance against agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
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Ensure the implementation of Preventive & Predictive maintenance, systematic calibration and testing programs for all critical equipment.
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Risk Register: Identify risks and follow up till closure.
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Monitor and ensure local content compliance.
Value Creation and Optimization
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Identify opportunities for improvements including feasible digitization.
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Contribute towards value creation for the fleet budget through work resource and inventory spare optimization, as well as the implementation of initiatives.
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Oversee and ensure development of detailed specifications for services, materials, and spares to facilitate competitive procurement while identifying alternative suppliers.
Finance
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Review and finalize the annual budget and five-year forecast.
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Monitor through monthly earnings review.
O & M bid Support
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Support Business Development (BD) team with operational and maintenance cost review/inputs and review of draft Operations & Maintenance (O&M) agreements.
Human Resource
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Support for Plant recruitment.
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Ensure head count in line with approved Org charts and approved budget.
Training and Awareness
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Conduct awareness sessions for key project agreements and O&M procedures.
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Promote safety culture.
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Promote optimization and value creation mindset.
Qualifications & Skill Sets
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Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
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Minimum 20 years of total professional experience.
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15+ years in Maintenance of Power & Water Plants.
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Maintenance expertise in Electrical /I & C.