NGHC Electrical Engineer – Solar Plant

NEOM Green Hydrogen Company Limited (NGHC)

NEOM Green Hydrogen Company (NGHC) is on a mission to make a carbon-free, climate-safe future a reality. We are building the world's largest plant to produce green ammonia at scale, providing humankind with a cost-efficient solution that will accelerate the worldwide green hydrogen economy. Located in NEOM and supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, NGHC will be integrating up to 4GW of onshore solar and wind energy to supply up to 650 tons of green ammonia per day for transportation globally. Operations will go onstream in 2026. NGHC brings together the technology, operational efficiency and know-how of ACWA Power, Air Products and NEOM in a joint-venture partnership with over 80 years of combined experience in the fields of hydrogen, energy, renewables and global networks.

JOB DETAILS

Division: Power Elements (PWE) Operations & Maintenance Team

Reports To: Senior Maintenance Manager Power Elements (PWE)

Liaise/Cooperate With: NGHC PWEs O&M Team, OEMs, Contractors, APEPC Team, EPMS Team-NGHC EHS Team, GHE O&M & EHS Team.

POSITION SUMMARY

Electrical Engineer shall be responsible to support and enable a reliable & efficient operation and maintenance of 2.97 GW dc solar PV farm in NEOM region. The main objective to ensure safe, reliable & efficient operation of solar PV farm by ensuring the safety of plant personnel and plant assets.

NATURE & SCOPE

The main functions of this position are:

• Must possess expert-level technical, electrical engineering management skills and knowledge in Solar Plant Electrical engineering tasks, along with excellent communication and influencing skills. He shall assure interfaces extensively with external and internal parties on engineering and technical matters.
• Support the Operation & Maintenance of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems from generating station i.e., Power skid to substation in compliance with OEM recommendations and approved schematics.
• Actively participate in plant O&M activities, Commissioning activities & safety compliance workshops.
• Enthusiastic to propose the Continuous improvement suggestion to keep elevating & enabling the best plant O&M practices.
• Proactively develop system and practices to encourage continuous workflow improvements and increase the asset productivity and efficiency.
• Regularly Organize the workshops to discuss the critical issues with proposed solution as per performed Root cause analysis or revised OEM recommendation.
• Participate in EPC contractor site installation, testing and commissioning activities from O&M perspective.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES

• Ensure that the team be able to monitor, maintained & restore the generating stations i.e., Inverters within the minimum time frame by performing necessary, appropriate & correct troubleshooting methods in line with OEM recommendations.
• Assist Construction & QC with inspection and punch lists of installation and vendor packages.
• Review mechanical completion for systems and sub-systems packages.
• Organise and document pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures and participate in system performance testing.
• Review and ensure that the TurnOver Packages / Final Documentation is complete from maintenance perspective.
• Develop the plant operation and maintenance procedures and work instructions based on OEM manuals, standard industry practice.
• Identify & develop the operational and strategic spares for the smooth and reliable operation of the plant.
• Develop the technical scope of work for contractors or services providers.
• Extend his support & supervise his team closely to enable & ensure that the best O&M practices are being followed & well executed.
• Enhance the Maintenance planning & scheduling by considering the availability of resources (Tools, Equipment's & Manpower) & their distribution in best possible way to optimise the maintenance time & cost.
• Responsible to maintain the Plant Maintenance KPIs benchmarking.
• Emphasize in proactive (predictive & preventive) maintenance to reduce the corrective maintenance.
• Responsible to propose continuous improvement programme, which is contributing to wards safe, reliable, productive & cost-effective O&M practices.
• Responsible to organize & participate in the root cause analysis workshop for any plant issues.
• Responsible to generate comprehensive incident reports for any events occur in the plant coordination in coordination with operation team.
• Responsible to propose & execute the approved continuous improvement programme, which is contributing to wards safe, reliable, productive & cost-effective O&M practices.
• Conducting Monthly review meeting with operation teams to retrospect & discuss the O&M philosophy & performance key points.
• Coordinate & provide the necessary data & documents to Engineering team for analysis & review whenever requested.
• Supervise & support the commissioning activities to be performed in compliance with approved procedures, method statements & risk assessment. Raise the punch point if any compliance deviated from its actual standards.
• Perform frequent surprise site audit to verify that the O&M practices are being performed rightly by site team as per standard procedures.
• Familiar & guide the operation team for effective usage of the Plant CMMS system to build the historical data base for real analytics.
• Responsible to respond on time for any emergency call outs requirements.
• Expert in identify & resolving the plant issues related to maintenance, operations & performance.
• Proactively work for the monitoring the asset condition and recommend his manager about any corrective measures or life enhancement strategies.
• Deep understanding of electronic, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems. Good knowledge to work with a variety of instruments such as gauge, transmitter, transducers, indicators, recorders, and controllers.
• Ensure during shift handover all the information; data & records has been Passover to next shift with complete details & accuracy. No communication gap should evolve during shift handover.

Team Management & Training:

• Encourage & guide the team to wards best O&M deliverables & how company objective is aligned with each individual employee objective.
• Ensure the smooth scheduling of refresher training program as per O&M Training Matrix.

Warranty Management:

• Responsible for generating warranty claims related to operation to various suppliers under warranty period.
• Ensure required information; data & documents has been maintained & submitted to supplier if requested.

Reporting Matrix & Documentation:

• Regularly audit the O&M team in order check & ensure that relevant documents records are well maintained in line with O&M agreement & OEM recommendations.
• Immediately report any plant issues to his line manager and concerned department as per communication matrix within the time frame along with possible root cause, restoration plan & future preventive/ predictive actions plan.

Interdepartmental Communication & Coordination:

• Extend the required support & proper communication to other departments & PWEs in timely manner to ensure smooth & effective operation of the company.
• Keep close & necessary Interaction with site operation & maintenance team to avoid communication gap & delay in equipment restoration.

HSSE:

• Ensure that every site activity is executed with approved procedures (SOPs), WMSRA, Risk Assessment (RA), check list (if needed) or any other supporting document if recommended.
• Ensure the O&M team & sub-contractors/ suppliers obtained PTW for each job and monitor them onsite for HSE compliances mitigations.
• Engage with site team for identification of new hazards from ongoing tasks or any new task.
• Participate/ Assist to review/ revise the task risk assessment (TRA) time to time.
• Participate actively in emergency response plan as per approved ERP.
• Support in executing the emergency response drills.
• Assist when needed in the HSE incidents/ accident investigation.
• Ensures PTW's for all activities are issued as per approved WMSRA/ PTW/LOTO system.
• Ensures the isolations/ deisolation and LOTO applications are applied as per SLD/ switching sequence.
• Control and manage site EHS by imposing and applying NGHC-EHS policies and procedures.
• Verify the isolation & LOTO procedure for critical maintenance activities.

SKILLS / TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AREAS:

• Professional in Microsoft Operating System (MS office).
• Mechanical or Electric/Electronic components fundamental knowledge.
• Solar Plant Performance gaps evaluation & representation.
• Leadership skill, negotiation skills, proactively managing the team of operators.
• Must be able to describe the Plant Performance Issues in short & effective way.
• Knowledge of Solar Inverters System, Solar Tracking System & Substation Operation & Maintenance preferably HV/MV GIS substation.
• Advanced analytical, technical skills and knowledge of electrical and mechanical equipment, as well as instrumentation & Electrical testing equipment.
• Deliverables on Time, Leadership & Adaptability: - Be Enthusiastic & energetic to provide required deliverable within the time frame with quality standard.
• Lead & guide his team in line with company objectives & deliverables.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• A bachelor's degree in electrical or Electromechanical Engineering with minimum 7+ years of experience in a solar plant capacity greater & equal to 100MW.
• 4 years experience in maintenance of utility-scale solar power plants with minimum size of 200 MW.

DESIRED EDUCATION and/or QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• A bachelor's degree in electrical or Electromechanical Engineering with 10+ years of experience in a solar plant capacity greater & equal 200MW.
• Various certification such as CMRP, CAMA etc. will be added advantage