Maintenance Technician

dnata
is one of the world's largest air services providers offering ground handling, cargo, travel, and flight catering services across five continents. We operate in 38 countries and 136 airports globally.

Job Purpose

To perform maintenance activities on powered and non-powered Ground Support, Material handling and Workshop Equipment in accordance to dnata standards and procedures. Independently handle most maintenance activities while being supervised/guided by seniors for complex maintenance issues

In this role you will:

• Ensures assigned work team maintains good housekeeping in the assigned work area, cleanliness of asset being worked on and that all allocated tools are fit for use.
• Ensures standard safety procedures are followed by self and team during maintenance activities to prevent any personal injury or equipment/vehicle and plant damage.
• Ensures the calibration & certification of all tools & lifting equipment used are current and highlight any discrepancy or damage to such tools to relevant team member.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve efficiency, cost reduction, asset reliability and safety, by escalating ideas to the Master Level Technician for review.
• Carries out express servicing, minor, intermediate & major preventive maintenance as per checklist provided on equipment, vehicles, plant & machinery as allocated relevant allocation team.
• Diagnosis breakdown reasons and carry out repairs & corrective maintenance on equipment, vehicles, plant & machinery, components and sub-assemblies under breakdown to minimise downtime.
• Guides junior or entry level team members to carry out maintenance activities and repairs to equipment, vehicles, plant & machinery, components and sub-assemblies under breakdown.
• Performs daily inspection of all equipment, vehicles, plant & machinery for operational reliability & safety and report findings to the master technician, ensures electrically operated equipment are provided with charged batteries.
• Assists with the refurbishment & modification program execution/assistance, Identifies need for spare parts and tools needed to ensure safe & timely completion of all maintenance tasks and inform relevant stakeholders on requirements, provides operational support to ensure smooth material flow (cargo & baggage) within the automated material handling system.
• Reports condition of asset during execution of preventive maintenance activities and highlight repetitive faults to help plan and schedule any corrective maintenance requirement, supports the master technicians during the annual asset evaluation program to provide inputs to the asset replacement and/or refurbishment program for capital budgeting,
• Ensures all work-related activities carried out during the shift by self and team are recorded accurately and legibly in the work order to help planning staff log the details of work done in the Maintenance Management System.

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Diploma from recognised institution in any of the below engineering disciplines: - Automotive - Electrical - Electronics - Mechanical - Hydraulics - Diesel engine. In the field of maintenance preferably in below industries.
• Degree Holders with 2 to 4 years of experience or Diploma holder with 4 to 6 years of experience in the field of maintenance in below industries:
• GSE and Cargo Workshops in other airports, baggage handling in airports.
• Automobile Workshop, (Cars, pickups, vans, small buses)
• Heavy Equipment (earth moving, trucks, buses, construction, waste management, heavy material handling)
• Process & Manufacturing Industries (refineries, aluminium processing, food processing, automated material handling, paper & plastic products are few examples)
• Transportation industry (rail, metro etc)
• Certificate in other professionally recognised technical courses like Welding, Hydraulics, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Fabrication, Battery Handling etc.
• Training from ground support & material handling equipment suppliers, established automotive and automotive component manufacturers.
• UAE Driving Licence preferred in order to gain ADP.
• Proficient understanding of maintenance practices
• English Language Skills Level 3