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Senior/ Lead Engineer (Production)

Cariflex

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Singapore, North West
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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
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