Together with our team of Technical and Administrative staff in our Department, our primary goal is to meet the maintenance and repair needs of the physical structures required by our university in the areas of infrastructure and superstructure. In addition to this primary objective, our responsibilities consist of:
Project and Tender Management: Designing projects for buildings and facilities, preparing tender documents, conducting tenders, and preparing feasibility reports for all kinds of work requiring technical review and project design.
Facility Development: Managing tasks during the feasibility, design, and construction phases of buildings and spaces required by the university. This includes reading rooms, classrooms, lecture halls, amphitheaters, conference halls, student canteens and dining halls, meeting, cinema, and theater halls, indoor and outdoor sports facilities, and landscaping projects.
Oversight and Inspection: Supervising the tenders related to construction, maintenance, and repair. Conducting maintenance and repair works. Inspecting land and construction sites, and taking delivery of those that have been allocated.
Infrastructure and Systems Operation: Conducting works to ensure the uninterrupted provision of the campus's water, sewage, electricity, and communication needs. Ensuring the operation, maintenance, and repair (either directly or via contractors) of heating systems, boiler rooms, cold rooms, generators, ventilation systems, telephone switchboards, and elevators.
Landscaping: Carrying out environmental planning in accordance with landscape architecture, as well as maintaining and watering green areas within the university premises.
Administrative Supervision: Auditing the activities of affiliated units. Ensuring that the unit's tasks are carried out at minimum cost, within the framework of quality, quantity, and time standards.
Planning and Goal Setting: Preparing annual work programs in collaboration with relevant units. Setting future-oriented goals and standards using the personnel, space, materials, and other resources allocated to the unit for the execution, direction, and evaluation of the unit's activities. Programming activities to ensure that core functions are performed effectively, efficiently, economically, and with high quality.
Communication and Organization: Ensuring that personnel understand established policies and that designated activities are implemented. Establishing a harmonious communication and cooperation system among the unit's staff and the staff of other units. Establishing, maintaining, and improving an effective recording and filing system within the unit.
Staff Training and Coordination: Identifying the training needs of the personnel and ensuring they are equipped with the necessary knowledge and tools to fulfill their responsibilities. Reviewing in-service training needs proposed by subordinates and preparing programs accordingly. Directing the distribution of tasks among units and coordinating the work of subordinates.
Daily Operations: Assigning tasks and documents forwarded to the Department to the relevant personnel and ensuring necessary actions are taken. Overseeing the preparation of response letters, as well as the tracking and finalization of daily tasks. Conducting necessary checks to prevent interruptions in the daily work schedules of affiliated staff.
Financial and Technical Procurement: Preparing the investment budget of our university. Preparing the technical specifications related to the university's machinery and equipment purchases.