Plant Manager

We are Sisco Jobs, a recruitment consultancy based in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. We are hiring for the position of Plant Manager in Saudi Arabia / Middle East.

• Lead overall operations and maintenance activities for conventional power generation and water desalination facilities.
• Direct safe and reliable operation of steam turbines, gas turbines, balance-of-plant equipment, and desalination systems.
• Develop and implement preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies to maximize plant availability.
• Monitor plant efficiency, generation output, water production, equipment reliability, and operating performance.
• Coordinate operations, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, maintenance, HSE, and engineering teams.
• Ensure compliance with plant operating procedures, HSE requirements, environmental standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Plan shutdowns, overhauls, major maintenance activities, resource requirements, and contractor deployment.
• Review operational KPIs, plant incidents, technical problems, maintenance performance, and improvement initiatives with senior management.

• Power Plant Operations & Maintenance:
  Strong understanding of safe, reliable and efficient operation of utility-scale conventional power facilities.
• Steam & Gas Turbine Systems:
  Technical knowledge of turbine operation, auxiliaries, performance monitoring and maintenance requirements.
• Water Desalination:
  Familiarity with operation and maintenance practices associated with industrial desalination facilities.
• Plant Reliability & Maintenance:
  Ability to manage preventive, predictive, corrective and outage maintenance programs.
• HSE & Compliance:
  Strong working knowledge of plant safety systems, permit-to-work practices, risk controls and operational compliance.

• Experience managing integrated power and desalination facilities.
• Exposure to major plant shutdowns, turbine overhauls and performance-improvement programs.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary O&M teams in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East.

For a Plant Manager position of this scope, a typical experience range is approximately 12-18 years in power generation, utilities or desalination operations. Candidates would typically be expected to have several years of progressively responsible supervisory or management experience within a steam turbine, gas turbine, conventional power plant or integrated power-and-water facility.

Minimum:
Typically B.E./B.Tech or equivalent engineering degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Power, Chemical or a related engineering discipline. Preferred:
Postgraduate qualification in Engineering, Operations, Energy or Management. Additional:
Relevant HSE, plant operations, maintenance, reliability or project-management certifications are advantageous.