Deputy Maintenance & Infrastructure Manager / Senior Engineer

Coordinate maintenance planning and technical fault response across airport assets.

Work pattern

40 hours per week; five eight-hour days, Sunday–Thursday, 08:00–16:00. Occasional out-of-hours work may be required; duty hours and rest are adjusted.

Responsibilities

• Prepare preventive and corrective maintenance plans for airport assets, prioritising critical equipment and operational risks.

• Schedule engineers, technicians and contractors around operational needs, planned works and available staffing.

• Coordinate technical fault response and arrange specialist support when faults exceed the airport team’s competence.

• Maintain asset records, work orders, inspection schedules and maintenance-performance reports.

• Review overdue work, recurring failures and equipment downtime, and assign corrective actions.

• Check safe isolation, work-permit and contractor-control arrangements before maintenance begins.

• Coordinate outages, access restrictions and safe return to service with operations and the responsible technical staff.

• Coordinate checks of backup power and other critical standby systems, and escalate failures affecting operational continuity.

• Manage critical-spares requirements and support procurement of maintenance materials and service contracts.

• Support commissioning, readiness tests, defect resolution and technical handover of airport assets.

• Monitor contractor performance, maintenance costs and compliance with required inspections and service schedules.

• Maintain technical training and competence records, and arrange assessment before staff undertake specialist tasks.

• Act for the Maintenance Manager when delegated and report significant asset or safety risks to management.

Requirements

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline.

• At least 5 years in maintenance/engineering, including team or contractor supervision in an airport, industrial plant, utility or comparable critical facility.

• Arabic and technical English; maintenance planning, contractor supervision, safe isolation, work permits and maintenance record keeping.

Nice to have

• Airport maintenance leadership.

• Relevant professional registration and specialist training.