Senior Maintenance Planning & Reliability Leader

JAC Recruitment; Selangor; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

JAC Recruitment is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead maintenance planning, reliability and internal maintenance support for a client paper plant in Banting, Malaysia.

You will drive plant uptime through shutdown planning, condition monitoring, lubrication management and RCA. Lead the Workshop and Piping teams to deliver safe, timely and quality maintenance and develop technical capability across the team.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 10 years in maintenance, reliability, shutdown planning, or heavy industrial maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning, reliability, and support to improve plant uptime and safety.
• Manage plant shutdowns from scope through execution and post-shutdown reviews.
• Lead condition monitoring and predictive maintenance programmes (e.g., vibration analysis).
• Oversee lubrication programmes including sampling, analysis, contamination control and optimization.
• Lead in-house Workshop and Piping teams for repairs, refurbishment and fabrication.
• Drive RCA for major equipment failures and ensure effective corrective actions.
• Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, Safety, contractors and vendors to ensure readiness.
• Standardize maintenance SOPs and data tracking for future digitalization.
• Ensure safe maintenance and shutdown work (permit-to-work, isolation, hot work, lifting).
• Develop engineers, supervisors, technicians and planners to strengthen technical capability.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Reliability engineering

Shutdown planning

Condition monitoring

Lubrication management

Root cause analysis (RCA)

Team leadership

Vibration analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

JAC Recruitment is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead maintenance planning, reliability and internal maintenance support for a client paper plant in Banting, Malaysia.

You will drive plant uptime through shutdown planning, condition monitoring, lubrication management and RCA. Lead the Workshop and Piping teams to deliver safe, timely and quality maintenance and develop technical capability across the team.