Senior Engineer – Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

Emirates Flight Catering

Dubai, UAE

Ref: MP497-13

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

• Reporting to Assistant Vice President – Engineering, your responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for ensuring safe working practices and procedures are implemented in accordance with the EKFC Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental policy.
• Deliver a cost effective maintenance service to EKFC operations through management of an effective and efficient & scheduled preventative breakdown maintenance service of all units in the facility.
• Implement proposed changes to equipment design and embed within maintenance team’s best tools and techniques.
• Accountable for ensuring the maintenance teams have clearly documented roles, responsibilities, expectations and accountabilities.
• Sets clear performance objectives that are clear, specific, challenging and achievable and provides regular and appropriate performance feedback to staff.
• Responsible for the ongoing development of Maintenance Systems, Procedures, Work Practices towards Best Practice and Lean Manufacturing Excellence.
• Control maintenance expenditure to budget by being accountable for accurate forecasting of major engineering activities at EKFC.
• Own engineering technical development and training matrices to build strong capable maintenance teams resulting in shorter time to repair and extended frequency of failure.
• Responsible for identifying Training Needs and execution of plans for the engineering teams.
• Designing programs to ensure that plant usage is optimized.
• Continual improvements and meet Key Result and Performance Criteria expectations in accordance with the departmental expectations derived from business plans.

Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering with experience in Air Conditioning and Refrigeration maintenance or Automation.
• High standard of professional conduct including a high standard of verbal and written communication.
• Familiar with monitoring and control systems, such as Building Management System & Control Management System.
• Holds Occupational Health & Safety as a core principle by leading actions to proactively eliminate/control hazards and drives a behavioural approach to safety first within their teams.
• Customer focussed by recognising their role and contribution within the business and actively seeking creative solutions to improve delivery performance.
• Excellent people management skills by leading and managing team in an effective manner and employing positive cultural change within.
• Create plans to build improvement in maintenance & general engineering, whilst ensuring the infrastructure and organisation are sufficiently supported to ensure competency exists to deliver the change.
• Ability to align own work and those within the team to business & departmental goals. Can articulate the activity required at all levels and draws plans to ensure each team member has measurable aims.
• Results orientated, appreciating and delivering milestones through contingent planning and effective schedule execution.

About the Company

Based in Dubai, Emirates Flight Catering is a multicultural workplace employing over 10,000 people from 59 countries around the world. From our inception in 1982, we have been creating a creative and collaborative working environment and believe that this has been at the core of our company’s success.

At Emirates Flight Catering we take pride in the in-flight catering, hospitality and support services provided to all Emirates Airlines Flights, First and Business Class lounges as well as more than a 110 other airlines departing from Dubai International Airport. Whilst our operation is challenging, with the capacity of more than 175,000 meals per day, we have invested in our people and promoted an environment that depends on team work.

In addition to the opportunity of working for the largest stand-alone and technologically advanced catering facility in the world, a career with Emirates Flight Catering offers substantial professional growth, including advanced training in the fields of food safety and large scale operational management.

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