Shift Superintendent

**Job Duties & Responsibilities**
- Responsible for the operation of the facility during the shift and its interface with other parties. Shall ensure safe operation and high availability and reliability at minimum cost.
- Manage and coordinate operations during normal and any abnormal operational situation assessing information and providing command to personnel and equipment to ensure safety and minimum impact on plant's deliveries.
- Shift Superintendent is responsible for the communication with all parties involved with the export of water, steam and power to the off-taker and act as main contact person during the shift.
- Shares and implements furthermore RPC/RAWEC’s vision of O&M service and company policies and procedures through all its workgroup.

**Specific Roles and Responsibilities of a Shift Superintendent**
- Ensure personnel safety and equipment safety in the plant.
- Ensuring strict compliance with HSE procedures especially with Work Permit, LOTO and special Work
- Maintaining and supervising personnel responsible for the operation of all facility equipment during his shift.
- Ensuring that no equipment is in service with an open WP
- Ensuring availability of safe operational procedures or work instructions
- Practicing the Operational Safety Assessment for any job requiring it.
- Providing safe working environment and promoting attitude of safety awareness of maintenance and shift personnel including actively ensuring the safety of others.
- Reviewing the open Work Permits by the beginning and ending of the shift, and take actions as

required in order to assure equipment availability and safety of personnel and equipment.
- Recognizing the criticality of every activity or defect in order to decide priority and risks associated.
- Providing safety talks in a regular basis within his workgroup

**Plan, Monitor and Control the Plant Operations during shift**
- Ensuring that all operational activities are performed following an approved procedure or work instruction; verify strict follow up of the procedure/work instruction in use, suggest revision or modifications if required.
- Ensuring that all operations are carried out in a safe and efficient manner ensuring that all plant systems are operating in under normal operating parameters, wherever possible in automatic mode and that all protection devices are in place and functioning. If not, communicate and suggest options to maintain plant operations in safe conditions.
- Assuring the contractual requirements of the WECA are met in compliance with Site Procedures, as well as government regulations and the documentation thereof.
- Attend and coordinate critical operational activities such as the commissioning, startups or shut down of the units or parts of the plant.
- Deciding and executing immediate steps during operational problems to ensure safe operation, whenever immediate communication with superiors cannot be established.
- Establishing a culture of prediction where qualified shift personnel monitor equipment performance parameters, and timely inform management of equipment performance degradation/malfunction. Making every effort to create a team that aims for “Zero” error in operation activities.
- Monitoring plant and components performance and efficiency for early detection of defects and malfunctions.
- Ensuring review of operational field data taken from field operators during operations workarounds, i.e. instrument reading, pipes leaks, pumps vibrations/noise and defects; and supervise the Work Requests are generated
- Monitoring all chemical parameters of the processes/systems operation and coordinate with the Laboratory corrective actions in case any abnormality.
- Closely monitoring all environmental parameters and coordinate with Plant management and Laboratory corrective actions in case any abnormality in a timely manner.
- Ensuring that all reported defects on field or Control systems are reported through the CMMS system.
- Ensuring the best result on operators’ activities such as equipment change over, burner tip cleaning, AH Washing, ST freedom test, equipment functional test, etc.
- Ensuring personnel have adequate skills to perform tasks.
- Being able to monitor and to perform any operation of the plant from DCS consoles
- Ensure compliance with the environmental regulations and that all reasonable precautions to prevent incidents of non-compliance have been taken. Shall further be responsible to immediately report to Operations manager and Plant Manager any known or suspected violations to the environmental regulations or any situation suspected that could lead to a violation.
- Review of open Work Requests and re-evaluating the priorities as required by actual plant status, coordinating with Maintenance and HSE department the timely and safe attendance of such requests.
- Ensure communication at all levels during the shift
- Communicating all routine, abnormal or emergency Plant Operations with the Department Ma