Overview
Senior Manager, Operations & Maintenance Jobs in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates at noon
Title: Senior Manager, Operations & Maintenance
Company: noon
Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
About noon
We’re building an ecosystem of digital products and services that power everyday life across the Middle East—fast, scalable, and deeply customer-centric. Our mission is to deliver to every door every day. We want to redefine what technology can do in this region, and we’re looking for a Senior Manager who can help us move even faster.
noon’s mission: Every door, every day.
What you'll do:
Team noon has some of the fastest, smartest, and hardest-working people we've encountered. With a young, aggressive, and talented team, we're driving major missions forward.
As a Senior Manager – Operations & Maintenance, you will own the planning, design, execution, and continuous improvement of fulfillment infrastructure and facility capabilities across the network. You will ensure that our warehouses are always capacity-ready, operationally efficient, and built to scale in line with business growth.
You will play a critical role in bridging fulfillment operations with facility planning and engineering, ensuring seamless execution, high equipment reliability, and optimized warehouse design in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Own end-to-end capacity planning across fulfillment centers, aligning infrastructure, layout, and equipment with current and future volume projections
- Evaluate existing warehouse setups and proactively identify improvement opportunities across layout, storage systems, material handling equipment (MHE), and automation
- Drive design and execution of new installations, expansions, and retrofits across sites to support business growth and peak readiness
- Partner closely with Fulfillment Operations to translate volume forecasts into facility and process readiness plans
- Lead initiatives to improve throughput, space utilization, flow efficiency, and cost optimization across fulfillment centers
- Own maintenance strategy and execution for all critical infrastructure and equipment, ensuring high uptime and operational reliability
- Establish and enforce preventive and predictive maintenance programs to minimize downtime and operational disruptions
- Manage vendors, contractors, and cross-functional stakeholders for facility upgrades, capex projects, and installations
- Ensure adherence to safety, compliance, and regulatory standards across all facilities and maintenance activities
- Drive process standardization and operational discipline across sites for facility management and engineering practices
- Leverage data and analytics to continuously monitor performance, identify bottlenecks, and drive improvements
- Coordinate as a central point of contact for cross-functional alignment between operations, engineering, procurement, and leadership teams
- Build and lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of ownership, problem-solving, and continuous improvement
- Promote the best of noon culture, principles, and values across sites
What you'll need:
- Proven experience in warehouse operations, fulfillment, facility management, or industrial engineering within e-commerce, logistics, or large-scale distribution environments
- Strong understanding of warehouse design, layout planning, and material handling systems (racking, conveyors, automation, etc.)
- Experience in capacity planning and translating demand forecasts into infrastructure requirements
- Hands-on experience managing facility maintenance, uptime, and reliability programs
- Demonstrated track record of leading capex projects, site expansions, or greenfield setups
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a data-driven and execution-focused mindset
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Strong stakeholder management and vendor management capabilities
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, or related field
Who will excel?
- We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
- You need to be forward-thinking, detail-oriented, and highly execution-driven, with the ability to anticipate operational needs before they arise.
- We need people who can connect the dots between demand, infrastructure, and execution, and build systems that scale seamlessly.
- noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and build from scratch is essential.
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