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