Job Title:  Mechanical Lead (Welding/Machining)

Posting Date:  24 Apr 2025
Requisition ID:  2786
Company:  NAWAH
Location:  Barakah
Posting Status:  Active Recruitment

Job Purpose

 

Lead mechanical welding and machining turbine and refuel services, including those provided by contractors, for Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) outages to achieve the long-term outage plan and meet outage schedules to ensure overall business performance objectives are achieved in accordance to NAWAH standards and procedures.

 

Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability

 in a manner which supports the objectives of the corporation and its Emiratization strategy.

• Contribute to knowledge dissemination/sharing in a way that assists with building internal capabilities of UAE Nationals where applicable and maximize their effective performance.

 

Activity: 

Excellence and Quality Management

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Ensure commitment to a culture of continuous improvement by eliminating waste, following operations procedures, practicing innovation, problem solving, and teamwork; complying with Quality Management System policies and procedures; providing and receiving constructive feedback, and striving to meet quality standards and stakeholder expectations.

• Ensure Commitment to the Nawah Fundamentals.

 

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

Activity: 

Welding and Machining

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:  

• Perform welding, inspections, and repairs to maintain highly functioning equipment and support safe operations.

• Perform machining repairs and replacements to maintain system fidelity and support safe operations.

• Manage and coordinate welders and machining operators to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations during planned and unplanned outages.

 

Activity: 

Welding and Machining Support

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:  

• Perform engineering activities associated with welding and machining to maintain system fidelity and support safe operations.

• Establish performance monitoring plan for welding and machining to maintain highly functioning equipment and minimize corrective maintenance needs. 

• Perform technical review regarding plant design changes or temporary modifications to ensure plant safety is not impacted and maintain operational excellence.

• Request procurement for equipment spare parts to remain prepared for any plant modification needs related to welding and machining.

• Develop documents related to installation and service contracts and provide oversight on maintenance activities to ensure contracted services are delivered efficiently. 

• Review and revise welding and machining related procedures to ensure procedures are available and relevant. 

• Perform periodic and surveillance tests as required to support daily plant operations. 

• Administer equipment and material master data updates to ensure inventory is properly managed at BNPP.

• Perform technical administrative duties as assigned by department Manager to support daily activities. 

 

Activity: 

Health, Safety and Environment, Security and Business Continuity 

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• All individuals take personal responsibility for safety; follow company HSE policies, procedures and instructions; avoid complacency and continuously challenge existing conditions and activities in order to identify discrepancies that might result in error or in appropriate action; report any situation that could present a hazard; not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided at the workplace in the interest of health, safety, welfare or protection or management of the environment.

• Follow all relevant Security policies, processes, procedures, and instructions to ensure security compliance in all aspects of work, by applying them on self, others, and corporate assets.

• Follow all relevant Business Continuity and Resilience requirements for compliance with, and adherence to, policies, procedures and instructions related to the effective planning for, and response to, incidents and/or business disruptions in order to continue critical business processes and activities with minimal adverse impact.

 

 Activity: 

People Management

Responsibilities and Accountabilities 

• Contribute to the development of UAE National employees

Professional Certifications

CertificateMin: • Welding Certified.

CertificateMax: N/A

Qualifications

QualificationMin: • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related Science. 

• 6 to 7 years of relevant experience, out of which:

- 1 year in a nuclear power plant engineering.

 

QualificationMax: • 9 years of relevant experience  of which: 

- 4 years in Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Nuclear Power Plant experience at an operational site and or Advanced Pressurized-water Reactor APR-1400, Open Pool Reactor (OPR)-1000 or Combustion Engineering Nuclear Steam Supply System (CE NSSS) Design, Work Management or Outage Management experience, as applicable for position.

 

Experience