Field Service Engineer - I

Role Overview

Field Service Engineer - I at ACWA Power. This role provides support for end-to-end outage management at assigned plants, delivering cost-effective, high-quality services to improve long-term asset reliability while ensuring overall cost efficiencies, resource optimization, and client satisfaction.

Role Purpose

To assist in planning, executing, and reporting on plant outages for critical equipment, ensuring robust coordination across stakeholders, compliance with safety and quality standards, and continuous improvement through technical expertise and best practice sharing.

Key Responsibilities

Pre-Outage Planning

• Assist the Project Manager in developing outage management strategy, scope of work, resource requirements, local manpower needs, spare part requirements, and quality assurance plans for assigned projects up to 18 months in advance.
• Conduct pre-outage studies by analyzing technical details of equipment, including equipment history, OEM recommendations, layout, interconnections, root cause of failure analysis, and operating conditions.

Execution

• Monitor daily progress against the outage plan and manage key stakeholders and service providers to ensure work is completed to 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 schedules daily based on progress reports, plant condition, and adjustments required by work units and contractors to ensure timely completion.
• Attend daily outage coordination meetings with stakeholders to ensure robust planning and execution and to escalate and resolve issues promptly.
• Arrange quality control inspections according to the quality plan and coordinate acceptance of equipment to ensure inspections are carried out to requirements.
• Assist in final calibration and checking by Maintenance, Operation, and Technical teams to ensure client satisfaction and final acceptance as per the authority matrix.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Develop daily and weekly management reports highlighting performance against objectives to keep management and stakeholders informed of outage execution and escalated issues.
• Develop the final outage report including outage preparation process, execution details, job statistics, scope of work, comparison of planned versus achieved goals and critical milestones, major problems encountered, corrective actions taken, good practices, and lessons learned.

Technical Expertise

• Act as a center of expertise for critical equipment types such as Gas Turbines or Steam Turbines, sharing technical know-how, providing technical insights and best practices, and conducting technical discussions with vendors and clients.
• Monitor latest technological innovations, new equipment design and functionality, and leading practices in the field, evaluating their relevance and usage from ACWA perspective.

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 toward the 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 the business value chain and operations.
• Knowledge of applicable legal, quality, and HSSE requirements.
• Thorough knowledge of power plant maintenance, equipment, practices, and procedures.