JOB PURPOSE

• 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 and ensure the landscape contractor complies with the contract scope, specification, and deliverable targets always. Ensures that best maintenance practices are applied in the process and procedures, propose, and implement beautification initiatives and ensure that impressive BIA landscape receives airport customer attraction as an important amenity.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. To develop landscape operation, maintenance and beautification plan for routine, periodic preventative maintenance activities for plants, irrigation and water feature assets that follows asset lifecycle maintenance approach.

2. To monitor and control landscape operations & maintenance plans, schedules, and execution at site, verify conformity to schedules, plans, and resource deployment.

3. To identify and correct needs for corrective and ad hoc maintenance and repair of assets due to fault or incident and prevent potential issues of escalations.

4. To monitor, correct and report any inconsistences in landscape contractor performance or behavior observed or escalate to Head Landscape.

5. To inspect, verify and ensure that landscape contractor has safety plans in place and has appropriate PPE, permits and authorizations while carrying out their activities at site.

6. To carry out onsite inspections and verification of works done by the contractor including all aspect their activities, resources deployed and overall outcomes.

7. inspect for landscape asset conditions, damages to contours, hardscape, plants, or systems due to accident or natural factors; and prepare and implement rectification plan to restore the landscape to original state.

8. Through Coordination and consultation with concerned sections and/or departments, facilitate productive work condition to landscape contractors, i.e. permissions for excavation, hoarding, lifting and confined space access, site clearance for enabling works.

9. Prepare monthly report with regards to contractors’ performance and key summaries of service deliveries for the management and in line with reporting requirements.

10. Review plans, process and procedures and where necessary advice and propose improvement in SOPs, draft new SOP as applicable, Scope of works and BOQ for new RFPs, and processes with respect to landscape maintenance and operation.

11. Take initiatives to improve beautifications projects, propose project scope, technical write ups, develop sketches, drawings, and specifications for works to be done in-house, ongoing contractor or for Tender out.

12. Act on approved service request for incident rectification tickets, work orders and complete/resolve such works using Software (Maximo).

QUALIFICATIONS

• A bachelor's degree in landscape architecture, landscape maintenance, or agriculture/horticulture engineering.

EXPERIENCE

• 5 years filed experience as landscape maintenance engineer with direct responsibility to oversee daily maintenance operations. The experience shall be in large landscape flagship development project, public parks projects in Bahrain or GCC regions.