Maintenance & Engineering Senior Manager

Maintenance & Engineering Senior Manager About RUA

RUA is a forward-thinking institution for cross-cultural arts education and creative innovation in the Middle East that fosters bold ideas that inspire progress and transform society by cultivating industry and academic collaboration and rethinking creative education, all while creating a space for global ideas to flourish in a culturally inspiring environment.

• Our Vision
• To be an inspiring beacon of knowledge for future generations, integrating culture and arts, empowering students to discover passions and develop talents while fostering creativity and cultural exchange.
• Our Mission
• To cultivate an innovative educational environment in culture and arts, delivering cutting-edge programs that foster cultural and artistic engagement, enriching both the Saudi and global communities.
• Our Aspirations
• The leading cultural university across the Middle East and North Africa.
• Ranked among top 50 universities worldwide specializing in cultural education.
• A global hub for cultural education and knowledge exchange.

• Lead the Maintenance & Engineering function, overseeing the reliability and performance of campus MEP systems, building assets, infrastructure, and landscape works.
• Provide management oversight of maintenance planning, engineering activities, small projects, and landscape works.
• Ensure maintenance and engineering activities are aligned with operational, safety, sustainability, and service requirements.

• Establish and maintain a comprehensive asset management framework, including asset registers, condition assessments, lifecycle plans and replacement forecasting.
• Establish and oversee preventive and corrective maintenance strategies for mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), fire and life safety, and other critical building systems.
• Lead asset reliability, lifecycle planning, and engineering risk management.
• Leads the energy strategy on site ensuring site redundancy, reliability as well as cost efficiency and sustainability.
• Integrate safety requirements and energy management and building controls into engineering and maintenance strategies.
• Oversee technical requirements and priorities for projects, modifications, and infrastructure improvements.
  
  Monitor engineering performance and report key risks, asset performance, and service outcomes to the FM VP.

• Develop and manage maintenance and engineering budgets, forecasting expenditure and identifying optimization opportunities.
• Lead the implementation and optimization of CMMS/CAFM systems and maintenance performance reporting.
• Ensure compliance with applicable building engineering and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the operation and maintenance of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, BMS, fire and life safety, and other critical engineering systems.
• Monitor maintenance plans, asset condition, critical faults, engineering risks, and corrective actions.
• Review and approve technical change requests and coordinate implementation with relevant functions.
• Oversee technical vendors and contractors, ensuring compliance with SLAs, engineering standards, and safety requirements. Establish contractor performance KPIs and monitor compliance with contractual service levels.

• 15+ years of experience in facilities engineering, MEP operations, maintenance management, or asset management, including significant leadership experience.
• Strong technical understanding of MEP, HVAC, BMS, fire and life safety systems, utilities, and building infrastructure.
• Experience managing engineering operations across large-scale campus, institutional, cultural, or complex facilities.
• Experience in maintenance and…