Maintenance & Engineering Senior Manager
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Role Overview
Riyadh University of Arts is an institution focused on cross-cultural arts education, creative innovation, and collaboration between industry and academia.
The institution aims to provide an innovative educational environment in culture and arts and become a leading cultural university in the Middle East and North Africa.
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About the Institution
Riyadh University of Arts is an institution focused on cross-cultural arts education, creative innovation, and collaboration between industry and academia.
The institution aims to provide an innovative educational environment in culture and arts and become a leading cultural university in the Middle East and North Africa.
General Responsibilities
- Lead the Maintenance & Engineering function across campus MEP systems, building assets, infrastructure, and landscape works.
- Oversee maintenance planning, engineering activities, small projects, and landscape works.
- Align maintenance and engineering activities with operational, safety, sustainability, and service requirements.
Strategic Responsibilities
- Establish asset registers, condition assessments, lifecycle plans, and replacement forecasting.
- Oversee preventive and corrective maintenance strategies for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire and life safety, and other critical systems.
- Lead asset reliability, lifecycle planning, engineering risk management, and the site energy strategy.
- Integrate safety requirements, 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 risks, asset performance, and service outcomes to the FM VP.
Operational Responsibilities
- Develop and manage maintenance and engineering budgets, forecast expenditure, and identify optimization opportunities.
- Lead CMMS/CAFM implementation and maintenance performance reporting.
- Ensure compliance with applicable building engineering and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee operation and maintenance of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, BMS, fire and life safety, and other critical systems.
- Monitor maintenance plans, asset condition, critical faults, engineering risks, and corrective actions.
- Review and approve technical change requests and coordinate implementation.
- Oversee vendors and contractors, ensuring SLA, engineering standard, and safety compliance.
- Establish contractor performance KPIs and monitor contractual service levels.
Experience and Qualifications
- At least 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 with specialized academic, performance, exhibition, or critical arts education environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, building services engineering, or a related discipline.
- A relevant master’s degree is a plus.
- Certifications such as CFM, FMP, IFMA credentials, PMP, CMRP, or asset management qualifications are preferred.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage vendors, projects, budgets, and service performance.
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