Facilities Engineer (Electrical)

Job description / Role

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group's entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day

Overview of the role:

Manage the maintenance of day-to-day electrical activities . Review electrical drawings for new fit out shops and inspect at site if work is done at per regulations.

What you will do :
- Specialty Leasing : Coordinate and assist the team for any Power and other services for tenancy requirements. Conduct a study of the requirements and confirm with the leasing team when okay to proceed. Prepare the scope of work for any additional requirements like power upgrades and water services and submit to procurement for sourcing. Attend meetings with the team and tenant contractor for coordination and any clarification to ensure compliance with the mall's set standards and requirements. Monitor the appointed contractor for the required additional services to ensure completion on time and work completed as per standard.
- Coordinate, evaluate, and certify contracted works related to mall improvements, reactive and corrective works, ensuring works completed are as per scope of work and complete as per standard and requirement.
- Provide support and feedback related to contractor performance and other issues concerning mall operation.
- Provide support in representing the mall FM division in providing and evaluating information relevant and related to facility upgrades, improvements, and special projects.
- Collect job tasks from Facility Manager and implement them in allotted timeframe. Ensure PPM and CM are completed as per SLA.
- Attend mall operation concerns and coordinate with different mall operation team including Specialty Leasing, Marketing, Security team, Customer Service, Tenant Relation, Procurement, RDT, Soft Services team.
- Ensure DFC Mall and Energy Centre assets are well maintained in good physical and operational state by the following means and process:
- Prepare material requests. Monitor material stocks to ensure availability of materials especially critical parts that may impact business operations.
- Conduct regular mall walk on daily basis to ensure that the mall is in good and convenient condition in terms of good lighting and no issues on electrical aspect even to the minor details like visible loose wires, power sockets in FOH, BOH and external. Report to the concern team/coordinators any issues found to create job order for immediate and necessary corrective action.
- Conduct regular site visit and as require to all technical rooms like MV rooms, Transformer rooms, LV rooms, ELV rooms, Q-tel room, Server room, generator room for visual check of assets condition and room condition (room temperature and cleanliness) to ensure mall assets like MV switchgears, transformers, LV panels, SMDB, DBs, UPS, CBS panels, generators, control panels are well maintained and attended for regular PPM and in required room temperature. Report to the team/coordinator any issues found during the visit like requirement for re-lamping, room cooling temperature, cleaning, etc. for necessary action.
- Retail Delivery Team : Assist the team in providing information related to power upgrade requirement to confirm feasibility of prospect tenancy. Conduct power study to see the feasibility of upgrading existing power provisions sufficient for F&B power requirement. Provide information of the needed changes and effect to the existing installation and if any required KAHRAMAA approvals prior to proceeding. Coordinate with team the impact with the existing MEP services.

Required skills to be successful :
- Knowledge of KAHRAMAA regulation.
- Knowledge about QCDD approvals
- Good Electrical trouble shooting skills.
- Team Player and team management skills.

What equips you for the role:
- Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering
- Overall 10 years of experience in facilities management. Minimum 3 years in Qatar
- Kahramaa approval as Supervisor

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies
Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.

The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation.

The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.

These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.

About the Company

Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.

The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.

The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.