Head of Engineering & Maintenance
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About the Role
A client of NADIA Global in Jeddah seeks a Head of Engineering & Maintenance to provide strategic leadership for the engineering and maintenance function of a railway, ensuring safety, reliability, and availability of assets.
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Responsibilities
- Define and execute the comprehensive engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and service requirements
- Coordinate workflows and technical objectives of the multidisciplinary engineering management team (Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Systems, and Power)
- Coordinate departmental resources planning to ensure company demands and maintenance peaks are met efficiently
- During incidents, coordinate all disciplines with the Operations Control Center to provide engineering assessments, repair estimates, and technical workarounds
- Ensure operational feedback is considered in maintenance activities
Requirements
- Extensive experience in engineering and maintenance leadership within railway or similar heavy asset industry
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams (Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Systems, Power)
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Job Overview
- One of our clients in Jeddah is looking for Head of Engineering & Maintenance.
- To provide strategic leadership for the entire engineering and maintenance function, ensuring the safety, reliability, and availability of all railway assets (Rolling Stock and Infrastructure) to meet commercial operational demands.
- Acting as the primary bridge between Technical Services and Operations, this role is responsible for optimizing the asset lifecycle, driving cross functional coordination with Safety, Quality, and other areas involved in the operation and maintenance of the railway.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the comprehensive engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with the company business goals and service requirements.
- Coordinate the workflows and technical objectives of the multidisciplinary engineering management team (Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Systems, and Power), ensuring integration between disciplines and consistent performance standards according to contractual and regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate departmental resources planning to ensure that company demands and maintenance peaks are met efficiently.
- During incidents, coordinate all the different disciplines with the Operations Control Center (OCC) to provide immediate engineering assessments, estimated times of repair, and technical workarounds to restore service safely.
- Coordinate and make sure that operational feedback is considered in the different maintenance activities.
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