Senior Maintenance Engineer

Job Description

• Monitor, enforce and comply with the site and maintenance procedures so that housekeeping, cGMP, quality, safety, occupational hygiene and environmental protection requirements are met to:

1. support/facilitate self-inspections
2. co-ordinate for plant pre-audit preparation
3. Ensure that timely closure of CAPA action

• Carry out implementation activities for plant modifications, capital projects and other identified plant improvement initiative in line with defined specifications, budget and qualification of facilities in accordance with site approved procedures
• Provides specialist advice to other departments and subordinates for trouble shooting / continuous improvements to processes/systems
• Provide input to the project team of capital projects as well as develop and implement the maintenance plan for newly installed equipment
• Provide inputs of spare parts strategies to development and govern current and new process equipment in term of spare standardization and spare inventory turns and ageing spare parts. Ensure specialist/technician timely charge out spare from the store
• Monitor and enforce compliance measures (including safety) within mechanical maintenance to ensure inspection readiness of plant, as well as participate as an audit team member in the conduct of audits
• Responsible for planning and implementing plant maintenance, managing engineering resources including in-house contractor during plant maintenance, equipment repair and annual plant shutdown and prompt resolution
• Establish, enforce and upkeeping equipment maintenance plan during the equipment life cycle
• Tracking repetitive equipment failure and drive investigation to determine root cause and improvement
• Support customer complaints and deviation investigations and ensure that all relevant engineering corrective actions are completed within the agreed timeline
• Manage the site computerized maintenance system and its data/records to ensure that the information is accurate and inspection ready at all time. Provide reports from the system and use as tools for maintenance decisions.
• Responsible as a subject matter expert in their assigned areas
• Supervise, develop and motivate junior staff to help realize their maximum potential to contribute towards achieving the objectives of the department
• Contribute to the development of the annual operating budget of the section to ensure achievement of operational targets of section
• Support the development of facility master plan to ensure compliance to engineering standards, management of obsolescence and asset replacement

Job Requirements:

• Good honor Degree or minimum Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or relevant disciplines
• At least 5 years' engineering experience in the food/chemical or related manufacturing industry
• At least 3 years engineering experience in the food/chemical or related manufacturing industry
• Good understanding of various industrial standards
• Good understanding of plant and facilities maintenance
• Knowledge of best practices in engineering both in preventive maintenance and plant commissioning
• Good understanding of GMP, GEP and EHS requirements