Senior/ Lead Engineer (Production)

Lead plant-wide Production overall technical activities, to ensure safe, reliable, efficient, and cost-effective plant operation. Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting, process optimization, production planning, operational improvement, and capability development. Support Production Manager and Production Supervisor in achieving production targets.

Key Responsibilities:

1.       Process Safety, and HSE

·         Champion process safety and operational discipline within Production.

• Lead/support HAZOP, MOC, PSSR and incident investigations.
• Identify production-related process risks and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Ensure production activities comply with operating procedures and site HSE requirements.
• Lead and/or support compliance with applicable Singapore WSH requirements, eg MHI Safety case, and site standards (ISO audit, SS651, etc..).

2.       Production Performance

• Monitor, analyze, and report (monthly) plant KPIs including production rate, yield, quality, downtime, raw-material consumption, energy/utility consumption, and production losses.
• Identify bottlenecks, process constraints, sources of production loss, significant performance gaps and lead improvement plans.
• Ensure operating parameters remain within approved operating limits.
• Provide technical guidance during abnormal process conditions and product-quality deviations

3.       Technical Troubleshooting

• Lead investigations of complex or recurring production problems.
• Develop sustainable corrective and preventive solutions, rather than temporary fixes.
• Perform and/ or review root-cause analysis using methods such as 5-Why, etc.
• Coordinate troubleshooting involving Production, Maintenance, Reliability, Technical, Quality and HSE.

4.       Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve plant capacity, yield, cycle time, energy consumption, reliability and operating cost.
• Lead production trials and plant optimization activities.
• Evaluate improvement opportunities based on technical feasibility, risk and business impact, and quantify operational and financial benefits from improvement projects.
• Monitor improvements after implementation to verify sustainable results.
• Support MEES requirement for water-cooled chilled water systems to meet prescribed energy efficiency levels, with compliance, reporting, and monitoring obligations under the Energy Conservation Act.

5.       Operational Excellence

• Review operating procedures and operating envelopes.
• Identify opportunities to improve operating discipline and standardize best practices.
• Support startup, shutdown, turnaround and abnormal operating conditions.
• Provide technical support for production readiness following maintenance or plant modifications.

6.       MOC & Improvement initiative/ project

• Lead/ Represent Production input to Management of Change (MOC) for plant modification and improvement projects.
• Participate in design reviews, HAZOP, commissioning and startup.
• Ensure new or modified equipment can be safely and effectively operated by Production.
• Participate in design and operability reviews.
• Evaluate operational impacts of process/equipment modifications.
• Lead PSSR before introduction of changes into operation to ensure Plant readiness for commissioning and startup
• Ensure procedures and training requirements are addressed following modifications.

7.       Technical Leadership & People Development

• Provide technical guidance to Production Engineers and production personnel.
• Coach and/ or guide engineer in troubleshooting, data analysis and operational problem-solving.
• Support development of operator/technician training materials.
• Transfer process knowledge and lessons learned across Production teams.

8.       Startup, Shutdown & Turnaround

• Coordinate with cross functional departments, and provide technical support for plant startup, shutdown and turnaround activities.
• Develop/review operational readiness and startup plans.
• Support and/ or lead final equipment inspection prior return to Production for startup.
• Lead PSSR to ensure Plant readiness for commissioning and startup.
• Lead and/or support and troubleshoot process instability during startup.      

9.       Operating Procedures & Standards

• Lead and/or development, and technical review of SOPs and operating instructions.
• Review critical operating parameters, control limits and operating envelopes.
• Standardize good operating practices among shift teams.
• Capture and incorporate lessons learned from incidents and operational problems.

10.       Others

• Support Production Manager budgeting.

• Any other job/ work assignment(s) from Production Manager.

• 8–10 years' experience in chemical manufacturing, preferably polymer, rubber or petrochemical operations.
• Leading Shutdown/ Turnaround experiences.
• Demonstrate strong process-safety and operational-discipline leadership.
• Excellent Leadership, Planning & Problem-Solving skills.
• Effective written & verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of Singapore Regulations & Industry HSE practices & Process Safety Basics.
• Prior experience in Six Sigma, Lean, 5S, and continual improvement programs are preferred

• Demonstrated capability in troubleshooting, optimization, MOC/PSSR and production improvement.
• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent relevant engineering discipline.
• Experienced with MHI safety case reporting.
• Preferably Energy Manager certified (SCEM).

• Private Health Insurance
• Training & Development
• Performance Bonus