Senior Engineer I/II

Company: Syarikat SESCO Berhad; Bintulu; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Syarikat SESCO Berhad seeks a strong Substation Operations & Maintenance leader to manage a regional team and ensure reliable EHV transmission.

The role covers planning, switching, and budgeting while driving engineering best practices and HSSE excellence across the unit.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with minimum 6 years’ relevant working experience in EHV Substation Primary Equipment.
• Possess Switching 275kV Class 2 or Electrical Supervisor (up to 275kV Substation Equipment)
• Possess CIDB Green Card

Responsibilities

• Manage a group of Operation & Maintenance staff consisting of engineers, engineering assistants and technicians in Southern Region.
• Plan and manage the substation maintenance works to compliance with maintenance standard and policy to ensure good quality.
• Prepare and perform switching according to the approved switching program including issuance/cancellation of EPTW.
• Conduct training for the staff to perform troubleshooting, fault investigation and rectification works.
• Respond to equipment breakdowns/outages and propose immediate solution.
• Liaise and coordinate with Project Delivery Department on the Transmission Substation project implementation, able to advise and guide PDD.
• Plan and propose yearly divisional revenue and capital budget.
• Manage revenue and capital budget effectively toward substantial cost effectiveness and optimization.
• Provide technical services to other stakeholders as and when required.
• Carry out administrative works (procurement exercise, review new substation equipment designs and technical specifications)
• Monitor through data-analytics on the operational behavior of the equipment
• Responsible for developing & maintaining engineering practices (SOP, PPG, Guidelines, TAPL & Engineering Circulars)
• Drive Commercial, Digital, Operational & HSSE Excellence within the teams

Skills

Team leadership

Electrical engineering

Substation maintenance

Troubleshooting

Budget planning

Education

Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering

CIDB Green Card

Tools

275kV Switching

Job description

Number of Openings: 1

Closing Date: 14 September 2026

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Manage a group of Operation & Maintenance staff consisting of engineers, engineering assistants and technicians in Southern Region.
• Responsible for the planning and managing of the substation maintenance works to compliance with maintenance standard and policy to ensure good quality
• Prepare and perform switching according to the approved switching program including issuance/cancellation of EPTW
• Conduct training for the staff to perform troubleshooting, fault investigation and rectification works
• Respond to equipment breakdowns/outages and propose immediate solution
• Liaise and coordinate with Project Delivery Department on the Transmission Substation project implementation, able to advise and guide PDD
• Plan and propose yearly divisional revenue and capital budget
• Manage revenue and capital budget effectively toward substantial cost effectiveness and optimization
• Provide technical services to other stakeholders as and when required
• Carry out administrative works (procurement exercise, review new substation equipment designs and technical specifications)
• Monitor through data-analytics on the operational behavior of the equipment
• Responsible for developing & maintaining engineering practices (SOP, PPG, Guidelines, TAPL & Engineering Circulars)
• Drive Commercial, Digital, Operational & HSSE Excellence within the teams

THINKING ENVIRONMENT & CHALLENGES (PROBLEM-SOLVING):

• Responsible for the effective operation and control of the EHV Substations to ensure their safe and reliable transmission and distribution of power
• Able to be relocate to any EHV Substation throughout Sarawak
• Manage, coordinate and supervise the team when respond to major breakdown and provide alternatives
• Respond, lead and guide the team to attend to breakdown in power system (EHV Substation equipment) on a 24-hour basis
• Lead and guide the team direction and objective toward Customer & Stakeholders Focus
• Leads with a clear sense of purpose, goals and roles to consistently deliver.
• Introduction of new technologies, standard and practices in maintenance and operation of the EHV substation
• Encourages an environment of sharing skills and abilities within work group to facilitate completion of the tasks
• Provides support and guidance to others within and beyond own team to ensure delivery of result
• Embraces networking to foster collaboration across organizational interfaces and able to outreach the expert in the field for technical matters
• Attend to breakdown in power system (EHV Substation equipment) on a 24- hour basis
• Maintain calm and consider every aspects of power system or control system during breakdown / troubleshooting
• Perform all tasks in line with the Information Security Quality Manual (ISQM) and the ISMS roles and responsibilities procedure
• Perform all tasks in line with the Information Governance Policy Suite and Guidelines.
• Perform all tasks in line with the Transmission Substations’ Business Continuity Management (BCM) and the BCM/BIA’s Coordinator roles and responsibilities procedure. To provide guidelines for establishing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for Transmission Substations
• Perform all tasks in line with the Environmental, Occupational, Safety and Health (EOSH) guidelines and the roles and responsibility as EOSH Coordinator for each region

QUALIFICATION & WORK EXPERIENCE (KNOW-HOW):

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent with minimum 6 years’ relevant working experience in EHV Substation Primary Equipment
• Possess Switching 275kV Class 2 or Electrical Supervisor (up to 275kV Substation Equipment)
• Possess CIDB Green Card

Preference will be given to internal candidate.