Fire & Gas Supervisor

JOB PURPOSE / OBJECTIVE

Ensure smooth and safe operation of Fire and Gas System and PAGA - Public Address & General Announcement System through preparation, implementation and review of preventive maintenance programs and coordination of efforts with internal and external stakeholders in order to make sure that relevant maintenance works are completed in an effective and timely manner.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

People Management

• Supervise the activities and work performed by direct reports to ensure that it is carried out in an efficient and effective manner, in line with the annual business plans, and departmental policies and procedures.
• Recommend training and development interventions for team members to build their capabilities.
• Manage Fire & Gas Unit’s personnel and activities through proper assignment of tasks, performance appraisal, training of personnel, and provision of proper tools and equipment in order to make sure the unit has a motivated workforce with the right equipment to perform their activities.
• Lead maintenance certification process for all technicians, including F&G technicians to ensure that only qualified individuals are certified.
• Provide technical support to F&G technicians on their daily maintenance works, provides field supervision of work force, ensuring proper job planning work distribution to technicians on daily basis.
• Supervise the activities assigned to the F&G technicians to carry out troubleshooting of problems occurring in the Fire & Gas system & recommend corrective actions and follow up to implement the same.

Maintenance Operations

• Coordinate efforts with other departments for developing daily maintenance work schedules, preventive maintenance plans, shutdown plans, and construction and alteration plans in order to ensure uninterrupted and synchronized operations.
• Prepare preventive maintenance programs, standard maintenance procedures (SMPs), and checklists by analysing repeated problems, collecting data on equipment history, and using equipment’s failure coding in order to ensure Fire and Gas maintenance tasks are performed properly.
• Audit maintenance activities to ensure implementation of preventive maintenance programs, SMPs, and checklists.
• Review preventive maintenance programs, SMPs, and checklists in order to keep them up to date and ensure their availability on the company’s electronic document management system (EDMS).
• Identify system discrepancies and provide permanent solutions to resolve the issues and prevent the reoccurrence of the issues in F&G systems.
• Perform reviews and participates in the engineering studies, proposes up gradation projects with budget estimates.
• Prepare Standard Maintenance Procedures for F&G equipment in coordination with Technical Department in accordance with standards, best practices and regulations pertaining to F&G system.
• Perform failure analysis of repeated problems in the area of responsibilities in coordination with Technical I&E, find root cause and suggest and implement improvements.
• Establish communication and liaise with vendors to resolve major issues when necessary in consultation with section/department authority.
• Prepare technical specifications & SOW for contracts for F&G equipment and systems.
• Evaluate field installations and recommend design modifications as required by code. Understanding and ensuring compliance with the health and safety regulations and quality standards in which work is undertaken.
• Perform technical evaluation of bids relevant to spare parts submitted by vendors and provide technical clarification to get right parts from vendors.

Availability of Supplies

• Continuously review spares, refurbishment status, bill of materials tracking, purchase requisition/purchase order status with the planners in order to ensure availability of the right level of supplies.

Budget and Forecasts

• Participate in budget preparation/reforecast meetings to provide right information on equipment history and training needs in order to make sure that the budgets and forecasts are realistic and cover all aspects of operations

Policies, Systems, Processes and Procedures

• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for the continuous improvement of Maintenance Department’s systems, policies, processes and practices taking into account ‘international leading practices’ in order to improve productivity and operational efficiency.
• Provide critical input to support the development of Fire & Gas Section’s systems, policies, processes, and procedures in order to meet business requirements.
• Ensure team members comply with all the policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions of the Fire & Gas Section, so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

Quality, Health, Security, Safety and Environment

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and relevant quality, health, safety, security and environmental procedures and controls across the Section to guarantee employee safety and delivery of high quality products/services.
• Lead the team’s safety activities and ensure that team members and external contractors and vendors understand Q-Chem’s safety standards and procedures by providing them with required safety trainings in order to ensure proper implementation of these standards and procedures.
• Actively participate in job safety analyses and initial investigation of incidents in order to make sure that all activities are performed safely and any incidents are reported and investigated properly.

Reporting

• Prepare relative reports in a timely and accurate manner in order to meet the departmental requirements, policies and standards.

Qatarization

• Contribute to the development of Qatari employees. This accountability is applicable to expatriate employees only.

5. QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Education
Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering – Electrical / Electronic .

Experience
Required: Total of 5-7 years of experience in the O&G Industry, out of which 2-3 years at a Specialist / Professional level.
Preferred: Experience in the in Petrochemicals Industry.

Other Job Specific Requirements and/or Vocational Accreditations

• PLC and instrument calibration
• Basic proficiency in Microsoft Office / SAP
• Basic proficiency in NFPA codes & standards and ATEX standard.
• Field devices such as Gas detectors/transmitters - O2, CO, H2, H2S, HC-CB, SO2, HC-IR, Flame, beam detector, heat detector/transmitters, Electro bed-Cell and Electrochemical-Cell type detector Photo electric smoke detectors, addressable devices and Dragger Polytron transmitters/detectors, Zellweger, Honeywell, and Emerson etc.
• FACP- NOTIFIER Fire Alarm Control System including Control board, expansion cards, Serial interface boards, FACP display boards, power supply boards etc.
• ALLEN BRADLEY PLC including Input, Output & Communication Modules, Relays, Adopters, Addressable loop drivers, Isolator Modules, Hart Multiplexers & HMI panels of ABB & Siemens.
• Advanced proficiency in working with fire alarm and gas detection systems

Must possess skills of the systems mentioned below:
Hydrocarbon detectors, H2s , Oxygen, smoke , heat, Flame detectors, manual call points and Manual push button stations, FM200 Fire suppression systems and HSSD-VESDA Air sampling High sensitivity smoke detection, Portable gas monitors and Docking stations, Public Address and Emergency Notification system, CIDS system- Cable intrusion detection system, Processor Modules, Link units, Relay Modules and Intrusion cables.

Languages
Required: English - Proficient.
Preferred: Arabic - Working knowledge.

. Skillset Required: Fire and Gas System operation, PAGA system operation, Preventive maintenance programs preparation, Maintenance coordination, People management, Training and development, Performance appraisal, Equipment maintenance certification, Technical support, Work planning and distribution, Troubleshooting, Corrective actions, Maintenance scheduling, Preventive maintenance plans, Shutdown planning, Construction and alteration planning, Standard maintenance procedures, Data collection and analysis, Equipment failure coding, Maintenance audit, Document management system (EDMS), System discrepancy identification, Engineering studies, Budget estimation, Standard Maintenance Procedures preparation, Failure analysis, Root cause analysis, Vendor communication, Contract technical specifications, Statement of Work (SOW) preparation, Field installation evaluation, Design modification recommendation, Health and safety compliance, Quality standards compliance, Technical evaluation of bids, Spare parts procurement, Spare parts stock review, Bill of materials tracking, Purchase requisition and order tracking, Budget preparation and reforecast, Continuous improvement, Maintenance systems and policies development, Compliance enforcement, Quality control, Health and safety training, Incident investigation, Reporting, Qatari employee development, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, PLC, Instrument calibration, Microsoft Office, SAP, NFPA codes and standards, ATEX standard, Gas detectors, Transmitters, Electrochemical detectors, Photo electric smoke detectors, Addressable devices, Fire Alarm Control Panel (FACP), NOTIFIER FACP, Allen Bradley PLC, Input output communication modules, Relays, Addressable loop drivers, Isolator modules, Hart multiplexers, HMI panels, ABB, Siemens, Hydrocarbon detectors, FM200 Fire suppression systems, HSSD-VESDA smoke detection, Portable gas monitors, Docking stations, Public Address system, Emergency Notification system, Cable intrusion detection system (CIDS), Processor modules, Link units, Relay modules, Intrusion cables, Advanced proficiency in fire alarm and gas detection systems