NGHC Operation Engineer – Solar Photovoltaic (PV)

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

Group: O&M PWE - Solar

Reports To: Solar PV Superintendent

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

POSITION SUMMARY

Operation Engineer shall be responsible to supervise & lead operations team 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:

• Operate the 2.97 GW dc solar photovoltaic (PV) farm in compliance with OEM recommendations and approved SOPs.
• 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.
• Establish diligent Coordination among power elements (Wind/OHTL) & Hydrogen production plant in NEOM region.
• Plant Performance reporting & Its analysis. Deriving the key improvement area along with O&M team to optimise the Plant performance as per plant O&M KPIs benchmarking.
• Timely Escalation of system information to relevant team or department as per communication matrix.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES

Quality Operation Practices:

• 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.
• Responsible for Preparation & review of plant Standard Operating Procedures, Energization/ De energisation switching sequences.
• Ensuring the system fault/incident log are maintained properly with a proper corrective action perform by maintenance team on daily basis either the in the CMMS system or manual.
• Responsible to propose continuous improvement programme, which is contributing to wards safe, reliable, productive & cost-effective O&M practices.
• Extend his support & supervise his team closely to enable & ensure that the best O&M practices are being followed & well executed.
• Ensure that the maintenance team is continuously adhering to optimum response time towards a corrective action notification raised by SCADA team.
• 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.
• Ensure that the Maintenance are performed with proper simulation checks & verification after every maintenance to ensure the equipment operational healthiness before Energization.
• Responsible to organize & participate in the root cause analysis workshop for Plant issues.
• Proactively Identify the Operational risks & share with them with management to have appropriate mitigation plans in place.
• Coordinate & provide the necessary data & documents to Engineering team for analysis & review whenever requested.
• Conducting Monthly review meeting with operation & maintenance teams to retrospect & discuss the O&M philosophy & performance key points.
• Responsible for plant performance reporting & analysis.
• Responsible for generating the required performance & monitoring reports as per reporting matrix.
• Responsible to maintain the Plant Operation KPIs benchmarking.
• Perform frequent surprise site audit to verify that the O&M practices are being performed rightly by site team as per standard procedures.
• 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.
• Familiarize & guide the operation team for effective usage of the Plant CMMS system to build the historical data base for real analytics.
• Ensure the proper execution of 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.
• Proactively involve in finding the gaps in plants performance in coordination with another PWEs & Engineering department.
• Responsible for re-verification of LOTO in critical maintenance works; before any PTW is approved by operators.
• Responsible to respond on time for any emergency call outs requirements.

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.
• Ensure the team engagement in all training programme as per company 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:

• Prepare Operation, performance & analysis Report as per reporting matrix.
• Ensure that every operation document records must be duly signed (if required) & recorder properly.

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:

• Follow the control of work methods as per WMSRA & HSE Plan/ PTW.
• Ensure the O&M team & sub-contractors/ suppliers obtained PTW for each job and monitor them onsite for HSE compliances mitigations.
• Ensure safety talks (TBT) for correct, safe use of tools/equipment and PPEs are rendered as per WMSRA/ SOP’s.
• 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.
• Ensure live work permit procedure is followed for testing on energized equipment or components.

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

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Diploma with 10 years of technical and managerial experience in the same field.
• 7+ years’ experience in operation of utility-scale solar power plants with minimum size of 100 MW.