Mechatronics Engineer - Facility Maintenance (Saudi Arabia)

We are seeking a Mechatronics Engineer to join our Facility Maintenance team within Mechanical Services Shops. The team is responsible for maintaining facility infrastructure, industrial machinery, and supporting equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

Your primary role will be to ensure the reliability, maintainability, and safe operation of integrated mechanical, electrical, control, robotic, and automated systems across the facility. You will lead troubleshooting, preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment upgrades, and lifecycle management for facility equipment and production machinery.

Key Responsibilities

• Facility & Equipment Maintenance: Develop and implement maintenance strategies for facility equipment, CNC machines, balancing machines, robots, furnaces, test stands, pumps, compressors, conveyors, drives, sensors, and hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Diagnostics & Root Cause Analysis: Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, servo, PLC, motion-control, hydraulic, pneumatic, and communication faults using drawings, diagnostic software, measurements, and failure evidence.
• Preventive Maintenance & Reliability: Establish asset criticality, preventive and predictive maintenance tasks, lubrication, alignment, vibration monitoring, thermography, calibration, spare-parts requirements, and condition-monitoring programs.
• Modifications & Commissioning: Engineer and validate equipment upgrades, safety circuits, drives, sensors, automation changes, and OEM retrofits through controlled design, testing, and change management.
• Maintenance Planning & Governance: Maintain CMMS records, maintenance plans, procedures, breakdown reports, KPIs, obsolescence plans, contractor controls, technical documentation, and training for maintenance personnel.
• Facility Safety & Compliance: Ensure maintenance activities comply with applicable safety regulations, operational procedures, equipment standards, and quality requirements.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, or Electromechanical Engineering from a recognized and approved program.
• At least 12 years of industrial or facility maintenance experience, including a minimum of 7 years supporting CNC machines, balancing machines, or integrated mechatronic systems.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of machine mechanics, bearings, alignment, hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, drives, servos, PLCs, sensors, robots, and safety interlocks.
• Experience with OEM diagnostic tools, electrical and mechanical drawings, precision measurement, condition monitoring, and structured root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to develop preventive maintenance plans, manage critical spare parts, execute equipment upgrades, and support safe commissioning.

Preferred Qualifications

• CMRP or CMRT certification.
• Siemens or Rockwell automation training.
• Robotics or CNC-machine OEM training.
• Vibration analysis or thermography credentials.