Summary
Dar Al Riyadh is seeking a Control Room Operations and Maintenance Engineer for assignments across Saudi Arabia. The role involves monitoring SCADA systems and water infrastructure, responding to alarms and emergencies, coordinating maintenance, and maintaining shift records and operational reports. Applicants need a relevant engineering degree and at least six years of experience in operations and maintenance for dams, water facilities, pumping stations, or infrastructure networks. SCADA monitoring experience is required; English communication skills are required, and Arabic is advantageous.
The posting
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Key Responsibilities:
- Operate the control room and continuously monitor dams, water facilities, equipment and associated infrastructure.
- Monitor SCADA systems, control panels, instrumentation, telemetry and communication systems.
- Track the operational status of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and electromechanical equipment.
- Identify, acknowledge and assess alarms, abnormalities, equipment failures and operational deviations.
- Record alarms, faults, response times, escalations and corrective actions in the relevant systems and logs.
- Prioritize alarms according to their operational, safety and environmental impact.
- Escalate critical events promptly in accordance with approved communication and emergency-response procedures.
- Coordinate planned, preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance activities.
- Issue and follow up maintenance notifications and work requests through the approved maintenance-management system.
- Coordinate with field engineers, technicians, contractors and emergency-response teams.
- Monitor the isolation, shutdown, restart and return-to-service of equipment in accordance with approved procedures.
- Support emergency operations during flooding, equipment failure, power interruption, communication loss or other abnormal conditions.
- Maintain accurate shift logs, operating records, incident registers and equipment-status reports.
- Participate in shift handovers and ensure that outstanding alarms, risks and maintenance activities are clearly communicated.
- Monitor contractor activities and verify compliance with approved operating procedures, response times and service-level requirements.
- Track operations and maintenance KPIs, including equipment availability, alarm frequency, response time, downtime and maintenance completion.
- Analyze operational trends and recurring faults and recommend corrective or preventive actions.
- Support the testing of SCADA, instrumentation, communication, backup-power and emergency systems.
- Assist in reviewing and updating control-room procedures, operating manuals, emergency plans and alarm-response instructions.
- Participate in drills, simulations and emergency-response exercises.
- Prepare clear daily, weekly, monthly, annual and technical reports as required by the assignment.
- Coordinate with government stakeholders, consultants, contractors and multidisciplinary teams.
- Attend meetings, inspections and site visits anywhere in Saudi Arabia as required.
- Comply with Saudi laws, applicable codes, client procedures, quality requirements and occupational health and safety obligations.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Instrumentation, Control, Civil Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline from a recognized university.
- Minimum 6 years of professional experience in the operation and maintenance of dams, water stations, pumping stations, water facilities or infrastructure networks.
- Demonstrated control-room operations and SCADA monitoring experience.
- Sound knowledge of electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems associated with dams and water infrastructure.
- Experience responding to alarms, equipment faults, operational deviations and emergency situations.
- Familiarity with preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance processes.
- Ability to interpret operating parameters, system trends, technical drawings, alarms and equipment-status information.
- Strong operational reporting, documentation and shift-handover skills.
- Relevant experience must be supported by verifiable employment records, project references, reports or studies when requested.
Preferred Experience:
- Previous experience operating or monitoring dam control rooms.
- Experience with dam gates, valves, pumps, instrumentation, telemetry, reservoir-monitoring and flood-warning systems.
- Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems such as SAP PM, Maximo or an equivalent platform.
- Experience working with government or public-sector water authorities in Saudi Arabia.
- Knowledge of emergency action plans, incident management and business-continuity procedures.
- Familiarity with operational KPIs, service-level agreements and contractor-performance monitoring.
- Registration with the Saudi Council of Engineers where applicable.
- Ability to communicate effectively in English; Arabic proficiency is advantageous.