DEWA honours Excellence Award and Ibdaa Initiative winners, and three distinguished work teams

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has honoured distinguished employees for the 4^th quarter of 2014. HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, honoured the employees in a ceremony at DEWA’s main office in Zabeel East. Present were Waleed Salman, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Dr. Yousef Al Akraf, Executive Vice President of Business Support and Human Resources, and DEWA management and staff.

Al Tayer, accompanied by Salman and Al Akraf, honoured 15 employees from the Power & Water Planning, Customer Services, Transmission Power, Generation, Distribution Power, Business Support & Human Resources, Water & Civil, and Information Technology for the Individual Excellence Awards for Q4 of 2014. Al Tayer also honoured 9 employees from Power & Water Planning, and Distribution Power, winners of Ibdaa Initiative for Q4 of 2014.

Distinguished teams in the second half of 2014 were also honoured. The team who worked on ‘Revising Test Frequency of Fire Pumps in DEWA 132/11kV Transmission Substations’ project won the Distinguished Team-DEWA award. The Collection Management System (CMS) team won the Distinguished Team - Best Administrative Experiment award. The EMD K-Station HVAC team won the Distinguished Team-Technical Project award.

Al Tayer commended the efforts and achievements of the distinguished employees and teams. He noted that DEWA always underlines the achievements of outstanding employees. This supports its strategy to motivate and encourage staff to improve performance and enhance job loyalty.

“DEWA has a firm strategy to establish a culture of success and excellence among its staff. We continuously encourage and motivate them by honouring distinguished staff and highlight their creativity and contributions in supporting DEWA’s efforts to develop organisational performance. We invest in our staff as they are the most important element in achieving success and continuous excellence,” said Al Tayer.

“At DEWA, we provide a positive work environment that serves as an incubator for creativity and innovation to ensure the highest levels of job satisfaction for our staff and help them perform their duties to the fullest. We constantly conduct training programmes that enhance the talents and abilities of our staff, and thus contribute to strengthening the overall performance of DEWA,” said Dr. Al Akraf.

Winners of the Individual Awards for Q4 of 2014 were: Mohammed Ghani, Manager-System Improvement, Distribution Planning, Abdulla Al Marzooqi, Senior Executive, Billing Services, Layla Sultan, Specialist Commissioning, Transmission Commissioning Department, Mohammed Rashid, Senior Engineer, Network Development, Distribution Planning, Rehan Arif, Engineer I&C Maintenance, Pandary  Joy, Assistant Engineer, Tendering and Engineering, Ilias Ahmed, Senior Supervisor, Transmission Line Maintenance, Tahra Baniyas, Engineer, Distribution Operation Planning, Reema Alzarooni, Senior Engineer, Transmission Protecting Settings, Ghazala Kokhardi, Manager-HR Helpdesk, Waqas Ahmed, Office Assistant, Water Operations, Nizar Subhan, Senior Electrician, Transmission Civil Maintenance, Ayesha Karmustaji, Analyst System, Smart Technology and Business Intelligence, Hajar Alshehhi, Senior Engineer Network Design, Distribution Planning, and Mariya Dela Rosa, Senior Personal Assistant, Power Transmission Planning.  

The Ibdaa Initiative winners for Q4 of 2014 were: Abdulla Al Aghbari, Vice President of Distribution Planning, Maryam Al Neaimi, Senior Manager Network Analysis, Muhannad Ashaar, Manager-Distribution System Analysis and Network Study, Mohammed Al Abbadi, Senior Engineer-Network Study, Nagarajan Packirisamy, Assistant Manager-Distribution Asset Management Cable, Abdulilah Alabdullah, Manager-Distribution Cable Jointing, Naushad Hashim, Assistant Manager-Distribution System Studies, Monjoor Khan, Engineer-Distribution Substation Emergency Maintenance, and Mohammed Jadalla, Senior Engineer-Network Design.

The team that won the Distinguished Team-DEWA award, was formed to revise pump maintenance test through risk assessment study. The project successfully reduced the carbon emissions and achieved cost savings of AED 2.342,515 Million annually. The team was honoured for their Revising Test Frequency of Fire Pumps in DEWA 132/11kV Transmission Substations project. The team that won the Distinguished Team - Best Administrative Experiment award, has automated the recovery process and resulted in improvement of Corporate KPI Day Sales Outstanding. They were honoured for their Collection Management System (CMS) project. The team that won the Distinguished Team-Technical award, took over the jobs that were usually done by contractors and carried out those jobs in-house by existing manpower of EMD K-station and achieved cost saving of AED 312,801. The team was honoured for their EMD K-Station HVAC project.