Operations Manager

Job Purpose
The Operations Manager leads and manages the Shift Teams to ensure safe, efficient and reliable operation of the plant, meeting generation and cost targets within strict environmental limits
Provides dynamic leadership in a culturally diverse environment

Directs, supervises and coordinates the activities of all operation and maintenance personnel
Reviews, continually, the shift log entries to ensure relevant information to the safe and reliable operation of the equipment is logged and handed-over
Makes decisions, or assists others to make decisions, on plant operational problems with immediate, medium and long term consequences
Evaluates and prioritizes defects or maintenance work planned or carried out with potential safety or commercial impact to the operational availability of the plant
Inspects and checks high priority maintenance activities monitoring work in progress, liaising with maintenance personnel to ensure work is completed with quality and on time
Reports to the Plant General Manager any serious deviation from normal operating conditions and takes or recommends remedial corrective actions
Uses available diagnostic and surveillance tools to check parameters and trends to identify or prevent deviations from historical data or to determine the cause of trips and other operational events
Has detailed knowledge of the PWPA and O&M agreement
Participates in fire drills as defined in the emergency management procedures
Oversees attendance of shift staff and manages holidays in line with operational needs through the effective management of the shift rota
Supports the development of operations staff competence, coaching and sharing expertise and skill
Ensures technical and/or HS&E training plans are created for and followed by apprentices and shift staff
Ensures all Operations staff is appraised and developed in line with the business needs
Cooperates with the development of succession plans
Writes, assists, and/or suggests revisions or modifications needed in the operating procedures
Cooperates with the preparation of the Production budget
Performs the role of Subject Matter Expert in specialized areas of the plant and provides training to staff when necessary
Supports development of Emiratis within the team
Engages in performance management processes by suggesting and agreeing objectives and meeting targets. Provides support to individual’s in achieving the set targets whenever necessary
Follow theICS/OT Cybersecurity’s Procedures, guidelines and best work practices
Ensure that operation department is in full compliance with cyber security compliance
Engages in Site, Regional and Corporate initiatives
Actively involved as a Department leader contributing to the general motivation of subordinates and colleagues
Take leadership and ownership in correct and consist ant implementation of company safety rule.
Develop the operational staff peform various roles and responsibilites under safetey rule
Follow management change procedure and resposible for shfort and temproary modification
Actively participate in RCA of all operation and safety rule related incidents/accidents
Incident reporting to shareholders and stakholders
Managing dispatch center and offtakers related to PWPA compliance
Ethics, Health & Safety and Business Continuity:
Adheres to the required level of moral and ethical standard for employability in the company
Applies all HSE Policies and Procedures and continually strives to improve all aspects of HSE Performance
Responsible to immediate Supervisor ensuring compliance with the facility’s Environmental Compliance Program taking all reasonable precautions to prevent incidents of non-compliance personally or on the part of others.
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