Engineer I - Power Electrical Maintenance

About Emirates Global Aluminium

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry.  EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

JOB PURPOSE:

To supervise maintenance repairs and services for combined Power Generation and Balance of Plant or Rectiformers and Power distribution network. To minimize downtime and increase availability and reliability of electrical equipment. To perform cost effectively, safely and in an efficient manner.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Supervises effectively for timely completion of preventive, corrective and break down maintenance activities (both planned and unplanned). This includes scheduled inspections with minimum equipment downtime and minimum interruption to Power Operations.
• Maintains effective PM compliance rate and achieves the department KPI’s to meet the given targets.
• Attends corrective and breakdown maintenance repairs, in close coordination with the Power operations team, as and when required (including “on call” duties).  Restores the systems back to normalcy as quickly as possible.
• Ensures that all aspects of maintenance works are carried out in adherence with EHS standards and plant operating requirements, to minimise workplace accidents / inquiries.
• Investigates system failures and ensures prompt corrective action is initiated to minimize equipment downtime.
• Ensures that maintenance crews are effectively supervised and trained to perform their duties in a safe, competent and cost effective manner.
• Effects control over the maintenance costs including production and administrative overheads, overtime and contract labour administration.
• Ensures the team follows the TPM principles – moving away from breakdown/ corrective to more proactive maintenance approach
• Develops and reviews standard maintenance procedures related to electrical maintenance function in line with OEM recommendations and best industrial practice.
• Ensures that plant and equipment are maintained in accordance with recognized International Standards and spare part inventories are up-to-date to meet maintenance requirements.
• Responsible for implementation of condition-monitoring programs on existing and new high voltage plant, enabling planned remedial activities to improve life expectancy and minimize unplanned failures.
• Accepts the probability of significant exposure to varying degrees of dangerous physical and sensory conditions inherent in the work environment; high pressure steam, high voltage, Arc Flash, high magnetic fields, high noise levels, fumes, heat, humidity, dust, heights, splashes of chemicals, acids, mineral oils and liquids.  Incumbent is aware that risk is significant and avoiding risk of danger, accident or health issues is a major challenge.

AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:

• The major challenge is to restore the power generating units, in an emergency situation, in a shortest possible time.
• The major decision making areas for the job holder are associated with trouble shooting, diagnostics and repair strategies in a breakdown situation; the allocation of jobs to competent persons; availability of spare parts and third party services and effective performance of critical PM activities while minimizing the impact on the Power operations.
• Ordering spare parts and services outside incumbent’s limit as per DOA, subject to approval from Manager/Superintendents
• Taking responsibility for the calibration of all HV protection and metering equipment, software controllers, automatic voltage regulators, SCADA system for switchgear and Rectifiers
• Working around HV systems to ensure that critical safety procedures are rigidly adhered to and permits to work and isolation procedures are carried out.
• Prioritizing the attention in critical areas as per the area of responsibility in 2600MW Power Jebal Ali site/ 3000MW Power in Taweelah site.

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  1. Candidate shall have hands on experience in troubleshooting/commissioning/installation/retrofit of GE make Excitation system EX2100/2100e and  Starting start systems LCI2100/2100e both software and hardware.
  2. Shall have hands on troubleshooting/testing/commissioning and experience with Generator protection panel [GPP]/ transformer protection panel [TPP] relays preferably GE Multilin G60/T60 and Beckwith/SEL relays.
  3. Shall be experienced with power system studies and protection coordination studies and implementing audit recommendations in the existing protection scheme.
  4. Shall have hands on experience with Generator/feeder/bus bar/transformer/Motor protection relays [GE/ABB and Schneider make relays] and trouble shooting.
  5. Shall have experience with protection setting calculations.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent qualification.

Minimum Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree Holder: 7 Years in a heavy duty turbine combined cycle power plant/high current Rectiformers along with high voltage distribution in electrical maintenance department.
• Diploma Holder: 12 Years in a heavy duty turbine combined cycle power plant/ high current Rectiformers along with high voltage distribution in electrical maintenance department.
• Hands-on experience with electrical equipment related to gas turbines, steam turbines, Reverse Osmosis Plant/electrical equipment with high current Rectiformers, high voltage distribution network, overhauling of motors, different types of Motor Operating Valves (MOVs), Power Transformers and  plant electrical machinery.

Skills:

• Knowledge of HV Switchgears, Power Transformers, Protection, Excitation, Static starting devices, Rectiformers control logics, Harmonic Filter Banks, different types of switchgear and electrical schemes
• Communication skills.,
• Planning, organizing & decision making skills.
• Leadership skills and time management skills
• Teamwork skills. Computer literacy.
• Quick in Response & mobilization of resources for the unplanned outages, in order to bring back the defective equipment into service.