The posting
- 2 year contract role
- Working Location: Tuas
The Operation Advisor is responsible for providing long-term technical and operational support for the waste-to-energy plant following completion of the Boiler Retrofit Work. The role focuses on ensuring sustained boiler performance, maintaining the results achieved during combustion tuning and commissioning activities, monitoring contractual performance guarantees, providing technical advice to plant operators, responding to customer inquiries, and reporting plant performance and equipment conditions to both the Customer and MHI-AP.
Job responsibilities
- Provide operational advisory services to the Customer's operating personnel for boiler operation following the completion of the Boiler Retrofit Work.
- Monitor boiler operating conditions on a long-term basis to ensure that the combustion tuning and optimization achieved during the post-retrofit commissioning period are continuously maintained.
- Advise plant operators on the proper implementation of operational recommendations established during combustion tuning activities and support them in maintaining optimal boiler performance.
- Identify opportunities for improvement in plant operation, maintenance, and asset management practices, and report such recommendations to the Customer.
- Respond to technical inquiries from the Customer regarding plant equipment, operational issues, and performance-related matters.
- Prepare and submit periodic Plant Condition Diagnosis Reports summarizing daily operational observations, findings, technical evaluations, and recommendations.
- Support continuous performance improvement initiatives by providing technical guidance and operational recommendations aimed at sustaining stable and efficient plant operation.
- Monitor compliance with the steam flow guarantee provided by MHI-AP as part of the contractual performance guarantees.
- Review daily boiler steam flow performance data and verify whether the guaranteed steam flow has been achieved.
- In cases where the guaranteed steam flow is not achieved, investigate the root causes and identify contributing operational or technical factors.
- Provide daily reports to both the Customer and MHI-AP regarding the status of guarantee achievement, including performance results and analyses of any deviations from guaranteed values.
Job requirements
- Master Degree of Engineering Science
- At least 7 years of engineering experience on plant and/or plant equipment
- At least 1 year of project management experience
- Japanese Language proficiency of JLPT N1 or equivalent is mandatory as this role requires the incumbent to communicate with Japanese internal counterparts and external suppliers on a daily basis
- Knowledge of combustion of stoker type incinerator system at Waste-to-Energy Plant.
- Knowledge of plant equipment improvement.
- Skills of operation data analysis for finding rout causes.
- Skills of preparation of daily and plant condition diagnosis reports.
- Project Management Professional (PMP)



