Electrical Supervisor

Position Title: Electrical Supervisor

Job Location: Rabigh, KSA

Project: Rabigh Power Company

Description

Through its 3 sections - Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation & Control - the department provides full technical maintenance support and corresponding administrative, managerial and supervisory functions to all operating units at the plant site. This is to ensure efficiency, reliability, and availability of all plant equipment’s.

These are done through systematic:

• Preventive maintenance to avoid failures, unnecessary production loss and safety violations.
• Corrective maintenance when an item/equipment has failed or worn out to bring it back to working order.

(a) Reliability centred maintenance - enabling a complete maintenance regime, whereby stakeholders monitor, assess, predict and generally understand the working of physical assets.

Department Objectives

• 100% completion of WO (report with material, description of works/spare parts used/ personnel/time/housekeeping, etc.) without rework on the same equipment; complete control of backlog list of WO, Risk Analysis preparation and PPE usage.
• 100% control over manpower usage (RPC personnel and subcontractor) measured on time used to repair and equipment and personnel assigned to complete minor and major maintenance as per schedule established, keeping equipment and plant availability.
• 100% follow up the request of material (spare parts/consumables) for minor and major maintenance on schedule, establish completion date 100% WO On-Hold due to lack of spare parts and perform jobs on date determined with operations.
• 100% follow up on the results of oil analysis, machinery vibration, thermo graphic image, dissolved gas analysis, insulation measurement, follow up reports and trends.
• At least 12 standard maintenance procedures issued and approved by plant manager per quarter.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, coordinates, assures safety, and implements correct maintenance strategies for all electrical plant equipment, facilities and support structures
• Assist in designing and developing maintenance strategies, procedures and technical approaches
• Schedules preventive and corrective maintenance works of the team
• Analyzes breakdown problems and formulate maintenance actions to prevent recurrence
• Directs/instructs and supervises electrical technicians and craftsmen
• Coordinates with operation departments in developing programs to improve plant reliability and efficiency
• Ensures safe work for all technicians and crafts by reviewing isolation and providing all necessary PPE
• Conduct safety meeting in weekly basis and whenever required ensuring safety instructions are followed
• Participate in budget preparation
• Monitors expenditures and control the cost
• Reviews spares stock and recommend level adjustment to meet maintenance requirement
• Find and evaluate skill gaps and recommend training for technicians to increase their competency.

Individual Objectives:

• 100% Completion of workable WO ( reports with description of job performed, spare parts and consumables used, personnel time, housekeeping.) without rework in same equipment comply with risk analysis preparation and ensure PPE usage for personnel.
• Achieve average 100% efficiency in using manpower and other resources, according to standard resources needed, in executing maintenance work orders, achieve zero incidents safety issues, such as, log out/tag out near miss and accidents.
• 100% Follow up on WO on hold generated during quarter until to be completed and closed, documenting status and process.
• Assign or develop, review and implement at least 10 per quarter maintenance standard procedures approved as per ISO requirements.

Follow Key Strict Rules for Electrical Supervisor

• Communicate all routine, abnormal or emergency Electrical activities to the Sr. Electrical Engineer and Maintenance Manager. Discuss tool/manpower/special equipment limitations to complete the jobs on time, team member’s concerns/issues, relations with other department, department issues and any concern that can affect Electrical team performance and plant operation excellence.
• Keep close communication with planning and operation for scheduled and emergency requirements of your department service.
• Keep close communication with TS, W/H and Administration, and request as much as you need in order to complete the job on schedule.
• Strive to get from your team accurate and complete information of the conditions of the equipment to work on, the ‘as found’ portion of the WO. Fill up with the necessary repair/replace information on the ‘as left’ portion of the WO. If any foreign material is found in any equipment, get a sample and have it analyzed in the RAWEC lab or a third party lab.
• Make every effort to set up a culture of methodic behavior on the maintenance activities from starting a job, get all (approved) necessary schematics, drawings, documentation, procedures, tools and materials. To complete the job, follow up the required tests needed to assure the reliable service on the equipment attended.
• Closely supervise and follow up the implementation of the culture of Zero error on electrical activities.
• Keep strict control of WO with “only visual inspection” and investigate the original request, do not close previous investigation without approval of Operation (we had bad experiences on visual inspection only). Disassembling and in depth inspection, provided that spare parts are available, is preferable.
• Always discuss with the team that energy isolation need to be checked previous to start any work, even with the WP signed.
• Ensure that the team adheres 100% to company’s EHS training & procedures.
• Plan a training strategy to educate RPC Saudi technicians.

Qualification: Education/Training/Professional License

• University graduate/Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical), with Master's degree preferred
• Licensed engineering professional
• Strong knowledge in power plant electrical equipment maintenance
• Computer knowledge (MS Office)

Qualification: Experience

• At least 5 years related professional experience, with at least 3 years in supervisory capacity
• Work experience in maintenance of power plant electrical equipment, turbine generator, GIS and switch gears, spare parts identification, planning and scheduling of maintenance activities
• Strong leadership (planning, organizing, multi-level communication) and technical writing skills