MANAGER - PLANT ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE

Perusahaan Getah Asas; Kuala Selangor; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A manufacturing company located in Kuala Selangor is seeking a Manager for Plant Engineering & Maintenance. The role involves optimizing maintenance operations, ensuring equipment reliability, and managing engineering spare parts inventory. Ideal candidates should have experience in maintenance management and a strong commitment to safety standards. This position also requires mentorship of junior engineers and improvement of operational efficacy.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing engineering and maintenance operations.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance and reliability engineering.
• Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Recommend optimal operating conditions for equipment.
• Manage preventive maintenance programs to minimize downtime.
• Oversee spare parts inventory and ensure timely maintenance.
• Define and enforce safety standards and procedures.

Skills

Maintenance management

Engineering collaboration

Safety compliance

Human capital development

Job description

MANAGER - PLANT ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE

Reliability of Engineering and Maintenance

• Recommend the optimal operating environment (e.g. temperature, torque, ampere) in which the various equipment and machines will need to operate.
• Manage and strive towards achieving zero unscheduled down time, through detailed planning and implementation of preventive maintenance programme (including scheduled maintenance).
• Collaborate with Kossan Engineering (KE) on feasibility (and compatibility) of modifications made to machinery equipment are compatible. Support testing and commissioning of the new equipment installation.
• Monitor timeliness of response time and resolution and take necessary interventions to address gaps identified to minimise duration of unscheduled down time.
• Inspection of repair and/or maintenance work completed report to ensure necessary verifications are done prior to deploying equipment back into service.
• Focal point for Production team to escalate matters that requires the immediate intervention and prioritisation from PEM.

Manage Engineering Spare Parts Inventory

• Plan and oversee availability of spare parts through reviewing Purchase Requisition (PR) and approve Material Request (MR) to issue components required for preventive maintenance and/or repairs.
• Oversee the assembly and instrument service operations in the engineering workshop to ensure timeliness and quality of repairs meets expectations, while adhering to the safety standards defined.
• Traceability (service record, repairer, location, shelf life) of components serviced in the Workshop.
• Continuously drive initiatives to improve plant machinery reliability, efficiency and availability to minimise production down time.
• Drive cost efficiency and effectiveness of maintenance programme of plant machinery and equipment, balancing between performance and cost.
• Maintain good record keeping and analyse (e.g. Mean Time Between Failures) to focus investigation into equipment failures and implement changes to prevent recurrences of equipment failure.
• Review accuracy of the root cause analysis of breakdowns and determine the effectiveness of the solution provided by the team to drive towards zero unscheduled down time.
• Implement and utilise the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) as the basis to schedule preventive maintenance, define scope and manage resources required for preventive maintenance.
• Collaboratively propose and implement initiatives that will drive lower consumption and efficient use of entire plant power supply, water, gas and workforce directly managed.

Safety, Standards and Compliance

• Define, communicate and review the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Work Instructions (WI) for processes, equipment, installation and ensure it is kept current.
• Cultivate and enforce safe working practices to ensure safety of the workforce in the team, compliance to safety standards and drive toward zero loss time injury.

Develop Human Capital

• Mentor inexperienced engineers to develop skills and provide technical leadership (formal or informal) in operations and local projects.
• Monitoring team performance against target Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), goals, career development and collaborate with HR to strengthen plant engineering team competencies and talent supply.
• Utilise depth and/or breadth of experience to identify cross-functional business opportunities and participate in internal company networks to share knowledge and practices to the benefit of others.

Others

• Any other task and/or assigned duties as required by the management.

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