Head of Engineering & Maintenance

CareerMaster; Johor; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company in Johor is seeking an Engineering Manager to oversee the Engineering Department. Responsibilities include managing resources, ensuring safety compliance, and maintaining budget control. The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and have at least 5 years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment. This position offers various attractive benefits and the opportunity to work in a high-profile, multinational environment.

Benefits

Fixed Basic

Variable Bonus

Medical Card

Career prospects

Friendly environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in engineering or maintenance in manufacturing.
• Demonstrable record of personal development post-graduation.
• Experience in continuous process plant operation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct the Engineering Department functions.
• Maximize plant equipment availability and resource utilization.
• Ensure safety compliance and a secure working environment.
• Control and monitor the engineering budget.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Problem Solving

Safety Compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Originally a producer of conventional gypsum materials now delivers systems and complete solutions for buildings worldwide.

Working Days: 5

Attractive Benefits

• Fixed Basic
• Variable Bonus
• Medical Card
• Career prospects in High Profile & Multi-National Environment
• Friendly, well-organized, systematic, high-technology environment to work in

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SUMMARY

• To manage, organize and direct the overall functions of the Engineering Department
• Maximize plant and equipment availability, optimize the utilization of resources and assets
• Ensure the cost competitiveness of the maintenance function, consistent with budgetary requirements, company policies and business objectives

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership

• Provide leadership in the engineering function to ensure the engineering resources at the plant work together to exceed in all applicable functional and business targets.
• When required, extend this leadership beyond the engineering function in the pursuit of excellence
• Understand the need to make cultural change within an established cross‑functional engineering team.

Personnel Performance Management

• Ensure all direct and indirect reports are engaged in skills development in terms of technical skills, problem solving skills based behavioral development.
• Engage with HR function, either directly or indirectly via extended team leadership, to ensure all employees fulfill both the spirit and the letter of their contractual obligations.
• Appraise, lead, motivate, coach and develop the maintenance team in accordance so that they maintain the plant to deliver the target operating efficiencies.
• Maintain a close relationship with all site functions, either directly or indirectly via plant interactive measures,
• Ensure all plant assets and equipment are capable and resourced to deliver as required.
• Ensure plant is continually improving via global benchmarking and the interaction of best practice.

Recruitment

• Involvement in all recruitment into the engineering function, ensuring the plant has a pool of personnel capable of meeting the future challenges in the business.

Functional Representation

• Provide functional representation in on-site meetings for development and management, together with external networking meetings.
• Provide leadership, in term of the site’s production function and the site’s management team.

Equipment Availability & Efficiency

• Prepares long and short term maintenance strategies in such a way that the asset and plant availability is maximised at an optimum cost.
• Plan, strategise, manage and achieve the engineering maintenance and project requirements so as to ensure maximum equipment and plant availability at optimum cost to meet overall business objectives.
• Carry out effective, efficient fault finding and problem resolution to root cause where possible on a wide range of complex systems in a continuous process environment.

Safety & Compliance

• Apply, and ensure compliance, with the Company’s Health & Safety and Environmental Policy and Procedures.
• Ensure a safe working environment in the engineering section by inculcating a high standard of housekeeping and safety awareness.

Budget Control

• Control and monitor optimum budget to ensure optimum plant utilisation, reliability, and productivity.
• To ensure all financial control procedures are adhered to so that the Engineering Team has an accurate and up to date picture of current spend vs. budget.
• Maintains a wide range of contacts both within and outside the company.
• Maintains a good working relationship with his counterpart in the statutory bodies to ensure approvals are granted within specific time frame in order to avoid unnecessary delays and repeat inspections.
• Maintain regular contact, represent the department, and ensure good working relationships with statutory bodies.
• Ensure compliance and conformity of engineering operations to all legal requirements and regulations.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
• Preferably Manager specialized in engineering and/or maintenance field within the manufacturing/production operation environment or equivalent.
• Clear and demonstrable record of personal development following graduation.
• Substantial experience (5 years minimum) of continuous process plant operation, with a tangible reference to process improvement, utilising people engagement, made during that period.

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