Mechanical Engineer (based in Penang)

Purpose of this position

The incumbent is responsible in assisting the Maintenance Manager in managing the workshop and assisting in leading the maintenance team to perform maintenance Equipment reliability related job functions in a safe cost-effective manner.
  
Principal responsibilities
 

• To support and to perform maintenance function job in time and cost-effective manner. It is achieved by:
• Supporting turnaround management.
• To introduce and to implement new and effective maintenance skills.
• Originates and develops analysis methods for determining maintenance demands for components, equipment, and processes.
• Acquires maintenance data and analyses data, avoiding maintenance delay and make recommendations for improvements.
• Implement and check effectiveness of SAP PM task
• Update and review SAP PM task time to time
• Manage the maintenance activity within the budget.
• Support all the northern and other area plant as required
• Conduct analysis of maintenance related problem and investigate, to determine the outage required for the situation considering the cost limitations for equipment up/down time, repair/replacement costs, weight, size, and availability of materials/equipment. Determine the cost advantages of alternatives for developing action plans to comply with demands for timely repair of processes/equipment.
• To support workshop management by site team
• Improve, upgrade, and maintain workshop facility and management.
• To guide supervisors and mechanical technicians in performing their tasks and responsibility, establish good maintenance practices.
• To support reliability related job function by:
• Performing failure root cause analysis as to troubleshoot and avoiding repeating event again.
• Set-up lesson learning/sharing database for operation and maintenance personnel.
• To improve maintenance personnel skills at high level of safety, competency, quality, and reliability by:
• To develop, establish and execute the training plan for maintenance supervisors and mechanical technicians.
• To conduct training and proficiency test for maintenance personnel.
• To establish maintenance management system for supervisor, perform major and critical maintenance activities.  

Key soft skills
 

• Ability to multi-task in a dynamic environment
• Strong organizing, planning, priority setting and analytical/problem solving skills. Strong initiative and ability to work in a self-directed environment.
• Ability to present clear and concise information to team, internal customers, and management level.
• Ability to communicate clearly through oral and written communications.  

Key functional skills
 

• Skills in cryogenic plan operations and maintenance
• Organizational skills
• Management skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills  

Required qualifications/experience
 

• Bachelor/Master’s in mechanical or Chemical Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 5 years’ experience in the fields of operations and maintenance of chemical industrial gases or manufacturing set-up.