📋 Tender Overview
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority DEWA has achieved considerable progress in attracting Emirati talents and Emiratisation of jobs through an Emirati workforce managing operating and maintain its operations and facilities to achieve sustainable development. DEWA adopts strategies and specific work mechanisms to attract experienced and fresh graduate Emiratis to work at DEWA particularly in engineering and technical roles. This supports its Emiratisation plan to prepare Emiratis to spearhead the energy and water sectors and appoint Emiratis in leading professional positions in DEWAs divisions and departments.DEWA has achieved excellent results in Emiratisation with Emiratis comprising 88.14 of senior management and 58.37 in middle management. DEWA has 3282 Emirati employees. DEWA is also committed to achieving the UAE National Agenda goals for inclusive employment to develop the capabilities of People of Determination and provide them with professional and operational skills that support their economic and social independence.DEWA strives to provide attractive job opportunities for UAE nationals and organises regular training programmes to qualify employees in all sectors. This enables them to perform their role in enhancing DEWAs leadership and excellence and also achieves the national policies for UAE nationals. This is in accordance with the words of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai who once observed The most important characteristic of the founding fathers and the most important lesson we learned from them is that the citizen is the priority and we should give importance to building humans before building edifices. DEWA is committed to achieving the directives of His Highness to support the skills and capabilities of UAE nationals and their career development. This achieves the UAE Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution to strengthen the UAEs position as a global hub for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and increase its contribution to the national economy by advancing innovation and future technologies. This is through using the state-of-the-art technologies such as Artificial Intelligence AI Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV Energy Storage Blockchain Internet of Things IoT among others said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer MD CEO of DEWA.DEWAs RD Centre at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park hosts an array of experts researchers and nationals who actively contribute to developing the clean and renewable energy sectors. They also support the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to provide 75 of Dubais total power capacity from clean energy sources by 2050. Our national staff have proved time and again their capability to compete with international staff provide solutions and innovative research papers that contribute to overcoming challenges in the energy and water sectors around the world added Al Tayer.Two strategic initiatives to enhance and sustain RDThe RD Centre focuses on four areas of research including producing electricity from solar power and other clean energy technologies the integration of smart grids energy efficiency and water. The Centre includes a 3d printed lab the first building in the UAE to be fully printed onsite and the first such 3D-printed lab in the world.The Centre has launched the Al Baheth programme to promote and enhance RD and attract Emirati graduates to work at the RD Centre. These include organising seminars conferences workshops employment fairs training programmes competitions field visits university and school visits. The programme aims to engage local and international universities in RD by sending their best technical candidates to work with DEWA researchers in different areas. The programme consists of four categories Internships Capstone Projects Fund visiting researchers Seminars and Workshops.The Centre has also launched the Development Programme for Research Collaboration to create a sustainable approach for RD projects by DEWAs employees and engineers to overcome current challenges. This also improves current operations through research promoting and enhancing the RD across all DEWA sectors and administrations.Emiratis to enhance the effective role of the RD CentreDEWA hosts an array of the best national talents. The RD Centre consists of 37 researchers 54 of them are PhD and master degree holders. Emiratisation has reached 70. The Centres team has published more than 40 research papers in international conferences and science magazines. A patent has been granted and 5 others are underway.The centre opened new horizons for me to work and lead a group of highly qualified Emirati researchers who focused on serving the UAE and Dubai. This is through overcoming pressing challenges in energy and water. The RD Centre attracts international research partners thanks to its location at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park the largest single-site solar park in the world. So I learn from those international researchers with the best RD practices and we exchange experiences. The Centre also enables us to learn about the latest and most important technologies. Those technologies are developed by companies to test their solutions at the Centre and benefit from its advanced research facilities resources and infrastructure said Dr. Saif Almheiri Vice President of Research Development at DEWA.The Centre is proud of its Emirati staff including Dr. Hisham Ismail Senior Researcher Fourth Industrial Revolution at the RD Centre. Dr. Ismail holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland USA.
