Field Service Engineer

Role Overview

Field Service Engineer at ACWA Power. The role is responsible for supporting end-to-end outage management for assigned power plants, delivering cost-effective, high-quality services to improve long-term asset reliability while optimizing resources and ensuring client satisfaction.

Role Purpose

To support and assist the end-to-end outage management for the assigned plant, with an aim to provide cost-effective and high-quality services to improve long-term asset reliability, whilst ensuring overall cost efficiencies, optimization of resources and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

Pre-Outage Planning

• Assist the Project Manager in planning outage management strategy, scope of work, resources needed, local manpower requirements, spare part requirements, and QA plan for assigned projects up to 18 months in advance to ensure thorough and robust planning.
• Assist in conducting pre-outage studies by understanding technical details of equipment including history, OEM recommendations, layout, interconnections, root cause of failure, and operating conditions to ensure accurate planning and execution.

Execution

• Assist in end-to-end outage execution by monitoring daily progress against plan and managing key stakeholders and service providers to ensure work is completed per work control procedures, HSSE and quality standards.
• Arrange issuance of spare parts, consumables, tools, work authorizations and necessary permits to ensure all required regulatory and safety permits are issued prior to execution start.
• Update the schedule daily based on progress, plant condition, and adjustments required by different work units and contractors to ensure timely completion per plan.
• Attend daily outage coordination meetings with stakeholders to ensure robust planning and execution and timely escalation and resolution of issues.
• Develop daily and weekly management reports highlighting performance against objectives to ensure management and stakeholders are aware of outage execution and escalated issues are resolved timely and effectively.
• Arrange quality control inspections according to quality plan and acceptance of equipment to ensure inspections are carried out per requirements.
• Assist and ensure final calibration and checking by Maintenance, Operation and Technical teams to ensure client satisfaction and final acceptance per authority matrix.

Post-Execution Reporting

• Assist in developing final outage report including outage preparation process, execution, job statistics, scope of work, comparison of planned versus achieved outage goals and critical milestones, major problems encountered, corrective actions taken, good practices and lessons learned to support continuous improvement.

Technical Expertise

• Act as a centre of expertise for particular types of critical equipment such as Gas Turbines or Steam Turbines, sharing technical know-how with the team, providing technical insights and best practices and having technical discussions with vendors and clients.
• Keep abreast of latest technological innovations, new equipment design and functionality and leading practices in the field and evaluate their relevance and usage from the organization's perspective.

Policies, Processes, Systems & Procedures

• Adhere to all relevant organizational and departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions so that work is carried out to required standard and in consistent manner.

Health, Safety, Security and Environment

• Adhere to all relevant health, safety, security and environmental procedures, instructions and controls to guarantee safety of employees and environmental compliance.

Related Assignments

• Perform any other duties which the organization may require.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in Operations and Maintenance of large Power Plants.
• Engineering or outage execution experience with OEM is a plus.
• Experience managing at least one outage of Steam or Gas Turbines.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic and commercial mindset to contribute towards success of a new business unit.
• Ability to originate and build relationships at senior level.
• Project Management principles and tools.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills.
• Ability to complement decision-making processes based on technical know-how.
• Coach and develop team members on key technical areas and disciplines.
• Thorough understanding of latest technology and innovation.
• Understanding of business value chain and operations.
• Knowledge of applicable legal, quality, and HSSE requirements.
• Thorough knowledge of power plant maintenance, equipment, practices and procedures.
• Achievement oriented with demonstrated results focus.
• Team player able to work effectively with several cultures simultaneously.
• Punctual adherence to shift timings and leadership by example.
• Willingness to conduct work at site daily from a leadership level.

Additional Information

Internal Stakeholders

• Work closely with GM – Field Services, Project Manager, Planning Manager, Maintenance team at plants, Performance Assurance Team, and Supply Chain team.

External Stakeholders

• Build rapport with Vendors and Consultants.