Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Faham's factory in Dubai Investments Park produces doors, closets and joinery for homes and projects across the UAE. We're looking for a Maintenance Engineer who takes ownership of machine uptime and reliability, and who is equally comfortable with a PLC program and a breakdown on the shop floor.

The role

You'll keep our production machinery safe, reliable and available, owning preventive and predictive maintenance, fast breakdown recovery and hands-on PLC troubleshooting and programming across the plant.

Key responsibilities

• Build and run the PM plan for production machines, dust extraction, compressors and utilities

• Diagnose and fix PLC, HMI, drive and sensor faults on CNC, edge-banding, pressing and finishing lines

• Lead breakdown response and run root cause analysis (5 Whys, fishbone) for permanent fixes

• Track MTBF, MTTR, downtime, OEE and PM compliance

• Manage critical spares, OEM service providers and contractors

• Enforce LOTO, permit-to-work and machine guarding, and lead maintenance technicians across shifts

• Support new machinery installation, commissioning and CAPEX decisions

Must have

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Mechatronics Engineering

• 5+ years in industrial maintenance, ideally in woodworking, furniture or panel manufacturing

• Hands-on PLC troubleshooting and programming: Siemens S7 / TIA Portal essential; Allen-Bradley or Beckhoff an advantage

• Experience maintaining CNC machines, edge banders, presses or similar automated lines

• Proven use of maintenance KPIs to drive decisions

Nice to have

• CMMS experience and condition monitoring (vibration, thermography)

• Pneumatics, hydraulics and dust extraction knowledge

• Valid UAE driving license

• Arabic or Hindi/Urdu for shop-floor communication

What success looks like: breakdowns falling month on month, repeat failures permanently fixed, and production trusting maintenance to keep the lines running to plan.