Operations Plant Engineer

Linde; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the gas industry seeks an experienced Engineer to optimize plant operations and enhance safety measures. You will lead teams, manage maintenance, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Ideal candidates will hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering with at least 2 years of experience, ensuring compliance with safety standards while maximizing profitability.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain all on-site facilities safely and efficiently.
• Perform plant start-ups and local operations.
• Support safety training and compliance with regulations.

Skills

Leadership

Safety Compliance

Problem Solving

Continuous Improvement

Collaboration

Education

Bachelors/Masters in Engineering

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Purpose of the position

• To operate and maintain all the on-site facilities in safe, efficient and reliable condition.
• Support the site operates safely, without harming people and the environment, at required reliability with minimum cost of ownership.
• Drive continuous improvement of assets, work processes and people capabilities to maximize business profitability.

Principal responsibilities

Geographical Area of Responsibility

• Assigned plants for the assigned site

Functional Area of Responsibility

• All assets, staff and work processes

Leadership

• Provide visible leadership and promote a zero incident culture
• Training of operations technicians
• Promote a culture of openness, willingness to contribute, mutual learning, continuous improvement and innovation across functions/organization boundaries to achieve competitive advantage in the market
• Foster/drive collaboration across functions and organisation boundaries

Functional Responsibilities

Operations

1) General:

• Perform plant start-ups
• Perform local plant operations (as stand-in for site operations technician)
• Support implementation of the corrective actions from audits, root cause analysis, alerts & directives
• Support the use of adequate means (eg. PPE, hand tools, software, instructions etc.) to perform safely and effectively.

2) Safety:

• Support training/instruction to everyone at the site (including internal & external visitors/contractors) with respect to hazards & safe behavior.
• Support investigation of any safety incidents, root cause analysis and implementation of the corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Support development and maintenance of emergency response plans.
• Support continuous proactive identification of risks (eg. Site walks, tool box meetings).
• Identify risks and support elimination or mitigation.
• To ensure compliance and observance to key national and local legislative requirements of all production sites.

3) Reliability

• Support the definition and implementation of improvements

4) Efficiency

• Support optimization of the use of existing assets to meet customers demand and to maximise profit
• Support the optimization of the utilization of tonnage contracts

5) Quality

• Support the establishment and maintenance of quality assurance systems to monitor the quality of products and services
• Support the establishment and maintenance of processes to address off-spec quality and any failure of monitoring system.

6) Maintenance

• Support development of turnaround scope
• Order services and supplies that are aligned to harmonization and bundling
• Executive preventive and corrective maintenance in his domain using maintenance planning tools (eg SAP PM)
• Coordinate maintenance activities

7) Projects/Modification

• Propose project to add/modify assets to meet market demand in the most profitable way and ensure that the intended results are delivered
• Support gathering of operational data & requirements (eg. Ambient conditions, utility
• availability, customer consumption & demand pattern, staffing, local scope & associated cost etc) for new projects
• Execute local project scope

8) Trouble Shooting

• Implement contingencies to repond to any unplanned breakdown/incident.
• Support root cause failure analysis for every incident and implementation of learnings

9) Reporting/ Performance management

• all hazards, incidents and near misses
• corrective action from audits, directives, alerts etc.
• programs and initiatives implementation status (eg. Global, regional etc.)
• reliability events (supply failures)
• Daily production & utility consumption
• Inventory stock count
• Plant /site performance and identification of gaps

Required qualifications/experience

• Bachelors/Masters in Engineering
• Minimum 2 years working experience in similar field.