ENGINEER - LANDSCAPE

To operate and maintain BAC's landscape assets including soft landscape, irrigation systems, water features, indoor plants, and landscape-beautification works throughout Bahrain International Airport and ensure its assets deliver desired performance outcomes. Ensure the landscape contractor complies with the contract scope, specifications, and deliverable targets. Apply best maintenance practices and implement beautification initiatives to enhance the airport's landscape as an important amenity. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Develop landscape operation, maintenance, and beautification plans for routine and periodic preventative maintenance activities for plants, irrigation, and water feature assets that follow an asset lifecycle maintenance approach.
2. Monitor and control landscape operations & maintenance plans, schedules, and execution at the site, verifying conformity to schedules, plans, and resource deployment.
3. Identify and correct needs for corrective and ad hoc maintenance and repair of assets due to faults or incidents, preventing potential issues of escalation.
4. Monitor, correct, and report any inconsistencies in landscape contractor performance or behavior, escalating to the Head of Landscape as necessary.
5. Inspect, verify, and ensure that the landscape contractor has safety plans in place, including appropriate PPE, permits, and authorizations while carrying out activities on-site.
6. Carry out onsite inspections and verification of works done by the contractor, including all aspects of their activities, resources deployed, and overall outcomes.
7. Inspect landscape asset conditions for damages to contours, hardscape, plants, or systems due to accidents or natural factors; prepare and implement a rectification plan to restore the landscape to its original state.
8. Facilitate productive work conditions for landscape contractors through coordination and consultation with concerned sections and/or departments, including permissions for excavation, hoarding, lifting, confined space access, and site clearance for enabling works.
9. Prepare monthly reports regarding contractor performance and key summaries of service deliveries for management in line with reporting requirements.
10. Review plans, processes, and procedures; where necessary, advise and propose improvements in SOPs, draft new SOPs as applicable, and scope of works and BOQ for new RFPs with respect to landscape maintenance and operation.
11. Initiate improvements in beautification projects, propose project scope, technical write-ups, and develop sketches, drawings, and specifications for works to be done in-house, ongoing contractor, or for tendering out.
12. Act on approved service requests for incident rectification tickets and work orders, completing/resolving such works using Software (Maximo).

QUALIFICATIONS A bachelor's degree in landscape architecture, landscape maintenance, or agriculture/horticulture engineering. EXPERIENCE 5 years of field experience as a landscape maintenance engineer with direct responsibility for overseeing daily maintenance operations. This experience should be in large landscape flagship development projects or public parks projects in Bahrain or GCC regions. #J-18808-Ljbffr