Senior/Engineer, Ops Analysis & Technology

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

Job summary

SMRT Trains Ltd in Singapore seeks an Engineer, Ops Analysis & Technology to mine asset condition data from a central warehouse and deliver insights to maintenance and regulatory teams.

You will develop ETL pipelines, dashboards, and data governance with Data Engineers and Cloud Solutions Architects, while vetting regulatory reports and supporting reliability initiatives.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Civil Structural Engineering.
• Prior work experience as Maintenance Engineer.
• 3–4 years in a data analysis role is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and vet regulatory compliance reports.
• Perform failure and reliability trending of track infra and facilities systems.
• Develop asset condition reports and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Develop data governance requirements for NSM entities.
• Create ETL scripts to maintain NSM linear asset repository.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Cloud Solutions Architect on data pipelines and dashboards.
• Scout and implement maintenance technologies.

Skills

Python

Excel

Power BI

Data analysis

Data visualization

Azure Data Engineer certification

Azure Data Scientist certification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Civil Structural Engineering

Tools

Excel

Python

Power BI

Azure Data Engineer certification

Azure Data Scientist certification

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 defect and asset condition information from multiple inspection sources need to be aligned, processed, stored, and fused a linear asset data warehouse. The combined data can then be retrieved to 1) ascertain linear asset condition; 2) compliance to LTA code of practices; 3) fault diagnostics; 4) reliability centred maintenance program development; 5) spares provisioning. The role of the Engineering in the Ops Analysis & Technology team is to mine asset condition and business insights from the central linear asset warehouse and work with Engineering, System Management groups within LTA for the above listed purposes. Additionally, the Engineer will be required to vet and prepare regulatory compliance report for submission to LTA.

Responsibilities

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

• Prepare and vet regulatory compliance reports
• Perform failure and reliability trending of Track Infra and Building & Facilities Systems. Support Engineering and Systems Management on:
  • o Generation of asset condition reports
  • o Reliability improvement initiatives such as maintenance program reviews
  • o Spares provisioning
• Develop the data governance requirements for NSM entities
• Developing extract-transform-load (ETL) scripts to ensure a high level of data quality to upkeep of NSM linear asset repository
• Work with Data Engineers and Cloud Solutions Architect to implement data pipelines and
  dashboards. Ensure that people, process, and technology aspects of technology induction are
  addressed.
• Scout for and implement commercial off-the-shelf maintenance technologies

Qualifications & Work Experience

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Civil Structure Engineering
• Prior work experience as Maintenance Engineer
• 3-4 years of work experience in a data analysis role is beneficial

Skills

Technical skills include:

• Strong understanding of mechanical or Electrical engineering
• Prior knowledge of railway track and/or civil structure will be beneficial
• Proficient in Excel
• Proficient in Python and its data science packages
• Proficient in Power BI
• Having Microsoft Azure Data Engineer certification & Microsoft Azure Data Scientist certification will be a bonus

Generic Skills include:

• Comfortable with people management
• Strong planning skills and high on conscientiousness
• Team player