Utilities & Maintenance Supervisor
King Abdulaziz Medical City for National Guard
Total years of experience :22 years, 1 Months
Company Profile: King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh commenced its operations in May 1983. Since then, it has continued expanding, while providing services for a rapidly growing patient population in all of its catchments areas. King Fahad National Guard Hospital has evolved to be part of the King Abdulaziz Medical City with many other prominent medical centers.
Highlights
• Explored the market and identified alternative solutions for spare parts that were unavailable with manufacturers or their authorized dealers.
• Suitably remodeled control devices to meet specific requirements of the hospital, which were not replaced by the manufacturer / authorized service agents, thereby saving capital expenditure (new machine costs).
Key Responsibilities
• Prepare preventive maintenance schedule along with check lists for all equipment based on manufacturers’ maintenance manuals and recommendations.
• Ensure that preventive maintenance work is carried out as per check lists and records are maintained in equipment-wise history cards.
• Review inventory of stock items of spare parts and consumables on periodic basis as per inventory policy and prepare indents for approval to procure as per the purchasing procedure.
• Prepare indents for non-stock spare parts of high-value with unpredictable requirement pattern for management approval allowing sufficient lead time for procurement.
• Arrange repair of spare parts in workshop or through authorized service centres after approval of repair costs and arrange testing on receipt.
• Supervise preventive maintenance and breakdown maintenance activities and guide the technicians, as and when required, to ensure that work is carried out as per defined procedures complying with safety requirements.
• Inspect installation of refrigerators, ice machines, freezers, air conditioning plants, cooling towers, compressors, pumps etc. by the suppliers’ technicians as per the process recommended by the manufacturers.
• Oversee commissioning and testing of new air conditioning and refrigeration equipment conducted by suppliers’ technicians along with testing of old equipment by in-house technicians; maintain appropriate testing records.
Company Profile: The Ministry of Defence and Aviation is responsible for the Kingdom's Army, Navy and Air Force. The Ministry also has responsibility for the construction of civilian airports (as well as military bases), and for meteorology.
Highlights
• Conducted hands-on training of other technicians and new recruits on correct repair and maintenance procedures, recommended by the manufacturers.
• Undertook new development work on restoration of old machines to prolong service life.
Key Responsibilities
• Checked all air conditioning and refrigeration equipment as per checklists and preventive maintenance schedules, updated history cards with brief details of work done and spare parts changed.
• Attended to maintenance and repair of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, in the event of their breakdown and ensured that the downtime and maintenance costs were minimized.
• Installed new air conditioning equipment and cooling devices, procured by the company, as per procedure prescribed by the manufacturer.
• Commissioned and carried out tests, recommended by the manufacturers, after installation of new equipment and devices and maintained test records.
• Undertook repair of spare parts, if feasible, with the repair facilities available in the workshop to reduce cost of maintenance.
• Attended training programs conducted by the manufacturers on maintenance and repair of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment.
Key Projects to Credit
• King Abdullah Palace Project on installation and commissioning of refrigerators and air conditioning system.
Key Responsibilities
• Supervised installation and commissioning of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment by the company’s technicians as per laid down procedures.
• Guided technicians in commissioning and testing new refrigeration equipment and air conditioners and ensured that they were performing as per specified parameters under normal operating conditions.
• Reviewed stock of spare parts, regularly required for maintenance and repair of air conditioners and refrigeration equipment and triggered action for procurement.
• Provided training of technicians on correct and safe procedures for repair and maintenance of air conditioners and refrigeration equipment.
• Initiated procurement action and obtained critical spare parts to avoid unexpected shortages during repairs and maintenance work; inspected quality after receipt.
• Planned and undertook servicing and periodic preventive maintenance work by the technicians and ensured proper record-keeping with details of work done.
• Prepared service report of air conditioning and cooling systems, refrigerators after completion and obtained customer’s signature for invoicing.
• Arranged collection of payment from the customers as per terms and conditions of service contract and deposited cash and cheque payments everyday with the company’s cashier along with invoice details.
Company Profile: In January 1993, a joint venture between “The Olayan Group and The Coca-Cola Company” and the world's largest beverage company and marketer of soft drinks - established The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Saudi Arabia (CCBCSA).
Highlights
• Reduced down time of air conditioning and cooling system due to breakdown maintenance by timely preventive maintenance.
• Improved internal customer satisfaction by promptly attending to breakdown calls.
Key Responsibilities
• Checked functioning of all air conditioners and refrigerators to ensure that all of them were in working condition and parameters like temperature, humidity were maintained as per requirement.
• Referred to preventive maintenance schedule and checklist, inspected and serviced as per plan and recorded jobs carried out, parts replaced, charging of refrigerant gas etc.
• Attended to breakdown maintenance immediately on receipt of calls, promptly repaired the machines and maintained records of nature of defect, repair work carried out, spare parts replaced in the history cards.
• Installed and commissioned new machines as per supplier’s recommended procedures, demonstrated proper functioning to users and operating personnel.
• Repaired costly spare parts in the company’s workshop, fitted the repaired parts in the machines to verify post-repair functioning.
• Attended training programs on repair, preventive maintenance, installation, commissioning of air conditioning systems and cooling plants conducted by manufacturers.
Previous Assignments
• 2 years: Technician Refrigeration & Engineering, Aomiqa Equipment & Engineering
• 3 years & 9 months: Technician Refrigeration & Engineering, Saudi Electrical & Mechanical Company Limited
CERTIFICATIONS • June 2003: Diploma in English Language, (Riyadh International Languages Academy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) • January 1997: Diploma in Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, (General Organization for Technical, Albaten, Saudi Arabia)
