Senior Director – Power Operations

CBE Southern Africa is looking for A qualified Senior Director – Power Operations to strategically plan, lead, organize, and control critical power plant operations. This role ensures the efficient, clean, and safe generation and uninterrupted distribution of power, steam, and compressed air to the Smelter, Desalination facilities, and other external high-voltage power supply customers. The incumbent will be instrumental in optimizing fuel usage, maintaining operational excellence, and supporting energy management initiatives within a complex manufacturing environment, contributing directly to the company’s mission of reliable and sustainable aluminum production.

• • Ensures compliance with all relevant safety, quality and environmental management policies, procedures and
• controls;
• • Ensures employee safety, legislative compliance and a responsible environmental attitude and standard within
• legal limits;
• • Drives improvement in environmental and recycling performance on site within the company’s approved
• financial constraints;
• • Ensures a continuous and reliable supply of Electric power from 2335MW installed capacity from optimised fuel
• usage from gas and distillate (standby fuel) to all the GTs and gas supply to Klins, carbon plant, cast house and
• pot repair;
• • Ensures continuous generation and supply of high quality, reliable compressed air to 8 Pot lines as well as all
• other DUBAL site areas for critical instrumentation devices, cast house furnaces, etc;
• • Supports HV reconfiguration, LV projects, commissioning works, fuel inventory, other department and 3rd party
• HV consumers’ outage coordination and DEWA synergy committee;
• • Implements new technology/systems to upgrade/improve the plant operational excellence;
• • Co-ordinates efficient operation and long term needs of the power plant so that fuel free steam turbine output is
• maintained at a maximum economic level;
• • Implements approved proposals from meetings at strategic level with DEWA and Emirates National Grid (ENG)
• to meet the requirement of ENG in the best and most cost effective interest of DUBAL;
• • Ensures optimum power security enhancements for both DUBAL complex and Dubai city as well as third party
• customers;
• • Ensures the availability of two interconnectors between DUBAL and DEWA, effectively between DUBAL &
• ENG, for security enhancement during emergencies;
• • Supports Energy Council think-tank programme, specifically focusing on reduction of energy consumption and
• the representation of DUBAL for “Demand side management for energy” and optimisation of power plant
• performances;
• • Enforces the agreed energy management action plans which will ensure that subordinate roles continually
• provide commitment to improving energy performance, its resources as per the ISO 50001:2011 standard and its
• implementation of rules and procedures;
• • Manages the implementation of policies, systems, processes, procedures and controls covering all areas of
• Power generation function so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a
• quality, cost-effective service in a consistent manner;
• • Manages the Power operation section budget by preparing relevant analyses and data;
• • Plans, develops, designs, improves and implements modification and improvement projects to improve plant
• performance with safety and environment aspects;
• • Direct and pursue the power operation team in promoting continuous improvements (HPTs, TAPs,
• Suggestions, etc.);
• • Performs other related duties or assignments, as directed.

• • Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering or mainstream Technical subject, ideally with an MBA and sound financial experience;
• • In-depth knowledge of the aluminum manufacturing sector and EGA’s products and business strategies;
• • Knowledge of operational, technical, and maintenance systems/processes and familiarity with state-of-the-art
• technology in the operations arena;
• • Ability to deliver sophisticated product within a complex manufacturing environment;
• • Risk management skills;
• • Project management skills;
• • Effective communication and interpersonal skills;
• • Coaching and mentoring skills;
• • Leadership skills;
• • Problem-solving and decision-making skills;
• • Strategic thinking and business awareness skills.