Asst. Manager Utilities Operations
Emaar, The Economic City (KAEC)
Total years of experience :17 years, 1 Months
• Utilities Development Designed medium and low voltage electrical network for new customers and reinforce the existing.
• Supervised implementation of the electrical network, construction supervision, and take over.
• Restudy and Redesign the existing electrical MV loops to add new customers and handed over to SEC.
• Supervised and managed a complete MV network of 134MVA Substation (110/13.8KV) including all technical studies and loading plans.
• Load forecasting and power strategy for distribution systems with study and preparation of system upgrade projects.
• Developed KAEC growth plan for overall MV electrical network based on a population growth model.
• Conducted citywide MV network planning including development of load study and phasing strategy as per standards & specifications of Saudi Electrical Company.
• Performed Construction Supervision, Snagging, and Taking Over of existing and new utility networks, Primary infrastructure, Transmission & distribution systems.
• Supervised O&M of the utility infrastructure networks and distribution systems in KAEC.
• Supervised day-to-day operations of citywide 13.8 KV Medium Voltage Networks including all downstream MV switchgear, RMU's, and transformers up to the customer Facility.
• Leading all the coordination between KAEC customers and SEC for existing and new connections.
• Monitoring power generation efficiency and assuring power utilization as per installed capacity.
• Supervised and managed O&M of 30 MVA of Central & On-demand Generation Farms including all related Citywide Medium Voltage Networks.
• Managing day to day utility operations, responding to power outages, and dispatching operation teams accordingly.
• Leading communications with the customer care department for power & water outages and/or preventive/reactive maintenance services.
• Monitoring and inspecting all utility assets to confirm quality & safety control procedures are strictly followed & implemented.
• Prepared staff schedules and reviewed daily/weekly & monthly reports submitted by contractors.
• Managed overall departmental strategic operations & development plans.
• Managed a complete department of over 125 employees from several backgrounds including engineering & design, procurement, development, operations & emergency response teams.
• Supervised engineering teams on electrical system recommendations and developed KPI’s for system performance and emergency response time.
• Managed and reviewed strategic development & operations plans.
• Supervised all the new and existing projects of Ewaa development.
• Implemented the QFMS system to provide timely activity reports, resource planning, performance monitoring, KPIs implementation & assurance as per internal service-level agreement (SLAs)
• Developed operational & maintenance strategies, procedures, and SOP’s for the overall department.
• Developed Inter/Intra department workflow management system to organize, prioritize and assign work orders.
Managed and implemented all health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• Managed the overall facilities operations including special equipment and systems to minimize unplanned downtime and reduce the fault resolution time.
• Managed & supervised staff of over 100 personnel including engineers, technicians and other support staff multi-lingual from diverse nationalities.
• Reviewed generation, quality, maintenance logs and statistics reports to plan preventive maintenance & development activities.
• Coordinated and managed development in process and new areas and supervised projects & operations teams.
• Implemented standard operating and development procedures across functions ensures proper planning & implementation of day to day development and operations activities in risk-free and timely manner.
• Prepared reports, and analyzed historical technical data to make recommendations for network improvement and reduce unplanned outages and improving SAIFI & SAIDI KPI’s.
• Prepared equipment preservation plan and preventive procedure following manufacturers recommendations.
• Developed and implemented risk assessment plan to keep the facilities operational with minimum outages.
• Implemented procurement strategies to keep a steady supply of the general and special spare parts handy and at economical prices.
• Operating and maintaining power systems, including but not limited to HV and LV Breakers, Transformers, RMUs, Protection relays, HV and LV switchgear, switchboards, MCC, Battery chargers, Lighting systems, UPS, Generators PPM activities
• Planed, organized and controlled the internal management & operation procedures of the company.
• Participated in the formulation of company administrative policy.
• Supervised administrative and technical processes.
• Developed comprehensive plan for plant operation, material procurement, raw & finished material transportation resource allocation.
• Developed operations, development and planning models and specified the purpose of each model for company staff and ensured the adequacy of these models to achieve the required internal SLA’s & KPI’s levels in addition to streamlining of the business.
• Technically and administratively supervised the overall operations teams to achieve work efficiency and enhanced production.
• Designed medium and low voltage network for parts of Jeddah city.
• Analyzed historical and existing technical data to network problems prepared design and study for Reinforcement Projects of medium and low voltage network including preparation of BOQ and material specifications.
• Study and prepare of underground/above Electrification for new mega projects and city expansions.
• Developed Load forecasting study for power distribution systems and proposed system upgrade projects.
• Estimated and developed project budgets, technical offers and tender documents.
• Design & Developed study to reduce the outage time for overhead electrical transmission & distribution network using auto circuit reclosers, voltage regulators, sectionalizers and load break switches.
• Managed the large-scale electrification projects for bulk consumers.
• Located and rectified MV power distribution network faults by using special location & troubleshooting equipment.
• Prepared and supervised a schedule for preventive maintenance of distribution network under SEC for bulk customers.
• Successfully completed two years PDP (Professional Development Program) with all SEC departments.
