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.
Requirements
- 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).
Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- Training & Development
- Performance Bonus