Maintenance Services Manager - Aluminium Plant

About the role

A primary aluminium manufacturing company is hiring a Maintenance Services Manager to lead its technical maintenance function in a large-scale aluminium production environment. The role covers maintenance across a complex, continuous-process industrial plant and reports to the Chief Technical Officer. The position is based in Doha, Qatar.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the technical maintenance function and manage maintenance services across a complex, continuous-process industrial plant.
• Oversee multidisciplinary maintenance activities covering mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, fabrication, machining, HVAC, cranes, vehicles, fire systems and civil/infrastructure assets.
• Take overall responsibility for plant maintenance execution, ensuring planned and corrective work is delivered safely, efficiently and to a high technical standard.
• Drive equipment reliability and plant availability by working closely with Operations, Planning and Reliability teams to improve maintenance programmes and resolve technical issues.

Required profile

• Minimum 10 years' relevant experience, including 5+ years in management, with a strong technical maintenance background in aluminium, metals processing or a comparable heavy industrial environment.
• Proven experience leading a large, multidisciplinary maintenance team is essential.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or higher.
• Strong understanding of maintenance within aluminium operations, ideally gained in a smelter or similarly complex, asset-intensive production facility.

Required skills

• Systematic maintenance and asset/facilities management.
• Project management and HSE.
• Mechanical maintenance, with exposure to electrical, instrumentation, fabrication, machining and plant infrastructure.