Telecom Maintenance Engineer

Your tasks

Supervise, ensure and provide telecom services and technical expertise in telecommunications engineering and to plan, co-ordinate, direct, manage execution of jobs related to plant telecommunications to ensure availability and reliability.

• Provide technical advice and guidance in the routine, predictive and preventive maintenance of plant telecommunications systems, to aid the plant operations adhering and enhancing the HSE policies of the company.
• Personally carry out the more specialized or complex repair and maintenance of telecommunication systems.
• Planning and preparation of maintenance programs, directing the implementation of such programmes, examining equipment performance and implementing programs of maintenance cost control with maximum safety and efficiency.
• Prepare capital, EOM, MM, operating budgets and five year business plan. Monitor and control the expenditure against budget.
• Develop conceptual studies and write statement of requirements for new projects and ensure uniformity and standardization compatibility at optimum level in design and engineering in all phases of the project. Review and approve engineering designs prepared by service providers, vendors and contractors for all telecom, radios, public address and general alarm systems, CCTV, structured cabling and plant access system.
• Identify, evaluate, select and test new telecom and network technologies to meet current and future business needs. Ensure state-of-the-art technology is applied in the selection of all telecom equipment.
• Monitor and coordinate installations during construction, witness factory and site acceptance tests, pre-commissioning and commissioning of telecom equipment and systems and assure that the installation and performance is in accordance with specification. Develop, execute and handover minor upgrade projects after successful completion and ensure these projects are compliant with standards and procedures. Apply cost-effective solutions and value engineering throughout the duration of projects.
• Act as division focal point to review and comment on projects telecom activities performed by projects, consultants, FEED engineers and EPC contractors.
• Participate in the planning and execution of telecommunication and surveillance modifications, expansions or new equipment installation. Includes reviewing user's requirements and recommending type and scope of systems as appropriate for planned work. Estimate costs of materials, spare parts and workforce utilized in assignments for budgetary purposes and participate in user service agreement preparation and negotiation.
• Coordinate with the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) through Telecommunications Team in IT Division for any radio interferences and for approval of any new radio equipment and obtaining TRA licences.
• Coordinate and liaise with PTT (Etisalat and Du) and participate in any network equipment or links abnormality. Execute jobs with PTT network technical personnel and coordinate and assist in various analysis and testing of the fault until complete network operation recovery is established. Participate with concerned PTT staff in carrying out site equipment maintenance activities and any other major repairs whenever they occur.
• Investigate, analyse and recommend corrective actions for all network failures, particularly in the network medium, communication links and PABXs.
• Plan, schedule, execute and supervise the preventive and predictive maintenance and troubleshooting of equipment to ensure reliability, availability and safe operations.
• Inspect and follow up tasks progress and provide reports to ensure timely and quality job execution.
• Monitor availability of tools, equipment, and parts for scheduled jobs to ensure smooth operations. Prepare list of spares, tools and materials required for the maintenance jobs and issue the purchase and material requisitions. Inspect new materials’ specifications to meet specifications and suitability.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering or equivalent professional qualification.
• 6 years of experience in managing telecom engineering services within a large industrial organization, preferably in the oil and gas industry.
• Good knowledge and experience in industrial telecommunications.
• Experience in guiding technicians for testing and troubleshooting of telecom, CCTV, PAGA and plant access control systems, testing and troubleshooting of cable networks.
• Experience in using MAXIMO for planning, scheduling and analysing work orders.
• Experience in supervising subordinates and contractor activities.
• Planning and organising, scheduling and coordinating, checking, examining and recording.
• Working with tools and technology.