Senior Maintenance Engineer

Roles and responsibilities

Safety

• Comply with JIGPC safety rules and regulations.
• Ensure all maintenance work is carried out according to JIGPC safety procedures, ensuring KPIs are met or exceeded.
• Actively promote and drive safety excellence for contractors and JIGPC staff, through active participation and compliance with JIGP’s safety procedures.
• Awareness of Quality, Occupational Health & Safety and Environment Management system principles
• Ensure proper isolations are carried out before starting the maintenance activity on the respective equipment released for maintenance in coordination with maintenance supervisor and executing technicians and local operator.
  

Leadership

• Offer front line leadership to contractors and the maintenance team in all situations, pulling together and coordinating the appropriate resources to deal with all maintenance related issues.
• Give directions to and ensure the productivity and capability of any maintenance work force in the area of responsibility.
• Initiate and drive improvement projects. Lead the continuing effort to raise standards for plant maintenance.
  

Reliability

• Ensure that effective predictive and integrity-based maintenance programs are followed that are consistent with regional programs, reducing unplanned shutdowns and ultimately enhancing overall plant profitability and reliability.
• Make timely and correct decisions based on fact and sound judgement, in order to keep plant downtime to a minimum, in both planned and un-planned situations.
• Trouble-shoot and diagnose problems and perform maintenance on equipment under his jurisdiction.
• Locate and develop local resources (contractors, vendors, etc.) for improved plant support.
• Liaise on a daily basis with Production and maintenance staff, to ensure that potential issues are identified, and plans created

Desired candidate profile

• Detailed understanding of preventative/predictive maintenance methods
• Knowledge of the operations in combined cycle power plants, Siemens Gas and Steam turbine experiences are an added advantage.
• Be able to work both independently and in a team, environment completing objectives efficiently with a sense of responsibility.
• Be able and willing to work in non-ideal environments such as: confined spaces, working at heights and around chemicals.
• Understand, practice, and enforce safe work practices related to the following: respiratory protection, elevated work platforms, fall protection, control of hazardous energy (Lockout/Tag-out procedure), fire protection systems, I&C safety, forklift/hoist operation, welding, cutting, brazing, confined space entry, PPE etc.
• Knowledge of identification, classification, and disposal of waste
• Knowledge of Power plant/IGCC/CCPP Operations and Control Philosophy.
• Working knowledge with CMMS maintenance tools (SAP/Maximo etc.)