Executive / Senior Engineer, Condition Monitoring

SMRT Trains Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SMRT Trains Ltd is seeking a Condition Monitoring Engineer to assess railway infrastructure with focus on tracks, tunnels, and related systems. You will define thresholds, analyze data trends, and drive maintenance actions to ensure safe, reliable operations across Singapore's rail network.

The role requires a degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, plus exposure to condition monitoring tech and data analysis tools like Excel and Power BI.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Prior work experience as Maintenance Engineer is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Understand characteristics of the condition monitoring system and interpret data, enabling maintenance insights.
• Provide timely condition monitoring reports with defect severity prioritization.
• Collaborate with operations analysis to integrate data into the central data warehouse.
• Scout for relevant condition monitoring technologies to enhance safety and reduce maintenance effort.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Electrical engineering

Railway track knowledge

Excel

Power BI

People management

Planning skills

Team player

Conscientiousness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Company description

SMRT Trains Ltd was incorporated in 1987 and operates Singapore's first mass rapid transit system. Today, we manage and operate train services on the North-South Line, East-West Line, the Circle Line, the Thomson-East Coast Line, and the Bukit Panjang Light Rail Transit. With over 5,000 employees, more than 250 trains, and 141 km of rail tracks across 108 stations, we serve millions of commuters daily.

We have set our core values to be Integrity, Service & Safety and Excellence. SMRT is committed to provide safe, reliable and comfortable service for our commuters.

Job description

Job Purpose

Railway infrastructure such as tracks, tunnels and viaducts are inspected and monitored routinely to ensure safe use. Increasingly, the use of inspection technologies such as photo imaging systems, laser and ultrasonic scan systems are used alongside more traditional track visual inspections methods to determine the condition of the infrastructure. Railway buildings and facilities are also equipped with smart environmental control, pump
monitoring, and lift control systems. These building conditioning monitoring systems could be OEM proprietary systems or 3rd party solutions.

The job of the condition monitoring engineer is to:

1) understand the characteristics of the monitoring system and develop / refine condition thresholds to trigger maintenance actions for the system under their charge

2) be a technology scout to identify industry leading conditionmonitoring technologies to influence and transform maintenance regime.

Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of Engineer, Condition Monitoring are as listed below. Note that the list is not comprehensive and related duties and responsibilities may be assigned from time to time.

• Understand the characteristics of the condition monitoring system and interpret acquired data. Have deep domain knowledge of condition monitoring systems so as to be capable of in-depth trend analysis of acquired data for maintenance insights and setting of alert thresholds
• Provide timely condition monitoring reports with defect severity prioritization to maintenance units so that timely intervention can be carried out to persevere the safe and reliability of the train network
• Working with the department's operations analysis team to integrate the data stream from the monitoring system into the centralized data warehouse
• Scout for relevant and proven condition monitoring technologies that can lead to enhance safety and/or reduce maintenance effort

Qualifications & Work Experience

Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
Prior work experience as Maintenance Engineer is a bonus

Skills

Technical and generic skills include:

• Strong understanding of mechanical or Electrical engineering
• Prior knowledge of railway track and/or civil structure will be beneficial
• Excel and Power BI skills for analysis of data, tracking and visualization of business performance
• Comfortable with people management
• Strong planning skills and high on conscientiousness
• Team player