Civil Maintenance Engineer

About the Role

Eram Talent is seeking a Civil Maintenance Engineer to join their team in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This is a full-time position requiring 5-10 years of experience. The role focuses on ensuring that buildings, architectural assets, and external areas are maintained in a safe, functional, and aesthetically acceptable condition, adhering to KAUST standards and best practices.

Job Purpose

The Civil Maintenance Engineer is responsible for maintaining civil and architectural assets, ensuring compliance with KAUST standards, specifications, and applicable building codes. This position involves monitoring maintenance quality, conducting inspections and audits, assessing asset conditions, and recommending necessary corrective and preventive actions to uphold facility integrity and safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor the quality of civil and architectural maintenance works performed by service providers.
• Conduct inspections and audits of existing facilities, ongoing maintenance activities, and completed works to ensure compliance with approved standards and specifications.
• Participate in construction inspections, project handovers, walkthroughs, snagging, and verification of rectification works.
• Audit preventive maintenance programs and ensure planned inspections and maintenance activities are completed as scheduled.
• Audit reactive maintenance work orders, identify recurring issues, and recommend corrective and preventive measures.
• Conduct condition assessments of civil and architectural assets and recommend repair, refurbishment, or replacement as required.
• Review maintenance plans, task lists, failure modes, failure codes, and causes, and recommend improvements.
• Monitor PM/RM/CM work orders and support initiatives to reduce maintenance backlogs.
• Conduct incident and failure investigations, perform root cause analysis, and recommend actions to prevent recurrence.
• Prepare inspection, audit, condition assessment, and maintenance reports and provide technical recommendations for facility improvements.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with applicable KAUST standards, specifications, building codes, and industry best practices.

Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in civil maintenance engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to monitor and audit civil and architectural maintenance works.
• Proficiency in conducting facility inspections and condition assessments.
• Strong understanding of building codes, industry best practices, and maintenance standards.

Work Environment

This full-time position is based in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, and involves working within a framework of established KAUST standards and specifications.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply for this role. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.