Project & Maintenance Engineer

• Working hours: 5-days (Mon to Fri) | 8 am to 4.30pm
• Location: Jurong Island (Company transport provided near Jurong East MRT)
• Salary Range: $5000- $6500

Job Summary:

The Project & Maintenance Engineer will be responsible for managing engineering projects, ensuring equipment reliability, and optimizing plant maintenance strategies in a specialty chemical plant. This multi-skilled role requires expertise in both project execution and maintenance management, working closely with operations, process engineering, and external vendors to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective plant operations.

Key Task or Responsibilities:

1. Project Engineering & Execution

• Develop project scope, schedules, and budgets.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams.
• Oversee equipment installation, and commissioning.
• Prepare detailed progress reports, technical documentation, and presentations for key stakeholders.
• Manage contractor activities and ensure compliance with plant standards.
• Review PFDs, P&IDs, and equipment specifications.
• Manage changes in project scope, budget, or timeline, ensuring any changes are well-documented and communicated to all stakeholders.

2. Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

• Develop maintenance scope, detailed job specification, resources, and timeline for turnaround maintenance.
• Prepare and plan corrective action/ repair plan and method focorrective or breakdown maintenance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve mechanical issues.
• Execute, coordinate, monitor repair activities and ensure all activities are documented and complied with the applicable protocols.
• Establish, continually improve & execute Company's maintenance management system in a safe, efficient, and effective way to achieve the highest equipment reliability & availability objective.
• Update and maintain accurate maintenance records to provide good maintenance history for data analysis and troubleshooting purposes.
• Conduct root cause analysis to eliminate equipment/ system defect and take appropriate preventive/ corrective measures.
• Work with operators and maintenance teams to minimize downtime
• Utilize root cause analysis (RCA) for failure investigations and long term solutions
• Oversee, manage, and supervise Company's in-house and external
• Contractors for all mechanical maintenance works related to planning and execution of:
  a) daily maintenance [preventive, corrective, & breakdown maintenance],
  b) transition maintenance,
  c) turnaround maintenance and
  d) upgrading and improvement related to maintenance.

3. Safety, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure all maintenance and project activities comply with OSHA,EPA, and local regulations
• Implement best practices and maintenance safety procedures.
• Ensure all mechanical maintenance activities are carried out in accordance with the Company's HSEQ Standards & Maintenance Management
• System, statutory requirements, and best industry practices.

4. Vendor, Inventory & Contractor Management

• Coordinate with suppliers and contractors for equipment procurement, installation, and repairs.
• Optimize & manage mechanical maintenance inventory level of critical & non-critical equipment spare parts.
• Ensure availability of critical spare parts and manage inventory optimization.

5. Cost Control & Continuous Improvement

• Optimize maintenance and project costs while ensuring reliability and efficiency.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance plant performance.

6. Commissioning & Startup Support

• Develop commissioning plans and startup activities.
• Troubleshoot technical issues during the startup phase.
• Train operations and maintenance personnel on new systems.
• Make recommendation for any corrective measure needed to optimize plant operation.
• Prepare final project reports and document lessons learned for organizational knowledge sharing and suggest improvements for future projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in project and maintenance engineering within the specialty chemical, petrochemical, or similar industries.
• Strong knowledge of rotating and static equipment.
• Proficiency in maintenance management system (CMMS), and project management tools (MS Project, etc.).
• Understanding of industry codes and standards (API, ASME, NFPA, etc.).
• Proven track record of successfully managing projects from the detail engineering, construction, commissioning, start-up, an completion handover.
• Possess relevant digital skills to collect, analyze and visualize data such as SharePoint, Power BI, SQL

Tan Jia Jun | REG No: R23112681
The Supreme HR Advisory Pte Ltd | EA No: 14C7279