Assistant Engineer (Planning) at The Nairobi Hospital

REF/AE/06/17

The successful candidates will be team players with the ability to effectively add value to enabling good patient outcomes and shape best clinical and non-clinical practice.

Roles for the Assistant Engineer Job

Reporting to the Head, Support Services, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:

• Ensure compliance with The Nairobi Hospital Engineering and Maintenance policies, procedures, processes and standards
• Create and maintain a comprehensive database for all Hospital equipment and facilities
• Ensure all newly purchased or placed equipment are included in the maintenance database
• Jointly with the relevant functional engineer, review equipment manufacturer recommendation, equipment failure patterns and target performance, and set appropriate service intervals.
• Plan and schedule maintenance activities for Hospital equipment, plant machinery. Develop and implement a three year rolling maintenance plan for buildings and facilities
• Monitor and follow up implementation of the planned preventive maintenance activities and issue daily / weekly and monthly performance updates.
• Develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work.
• Continually improving planning, scheduling, purchasing, storing, data management and job reporting systems to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency.
• Collaborate with relevant functional engineers to schedule manpower and resources to deliver most optimal productivity and maintenance outcomes.
• Liaise with procurement, stores, nursing and other users as well as other engineering colleagues on pertinent issues to optimize maintenance performance.

Assistant Engineer Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering from a recognized University
• 5 years’ experience in engineering and facility maintenance planning work
• Excellent knowledge of preventive maintenance scheduling and implementation
• Proven experience in planning, organizing and coordinating maintenance activities in a busy, fast changing environment.
• Computer literate and maintenance planning programs
• Experience with ERP application software
• Highly skilled person with an eye for details and quality
• Forward planning capability