Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, Waste to Energy (Based in Jurong Island)

SembWaste Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the energy sector is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to support operations at their Energy from Waste plant. The role involves planning and executing maintenance while ensuring safety compliance and optimization of plant operations. Ideal candidates will hold a degree in Mechanical Engineering with relevant experience and possess strong leadership skills. They will work closely with teams, manage budgets, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Power Plant or oil & gas environment.
• Proactive in adopting new technologies and solutions.
• Resourceful and independent with a positive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance works, ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
• Lead technicians and troubleshoot major plant issues.
• Develop maintenance procedures, risk assessments, and ensure safety practices.

Skills

Organized

Detail oriented

Team player

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Purpose and Scope

You will provide mechanical maintenance works to support the operations of the Energy from Waste plant.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule corrective and preventive maintenance works. Include liaising with operations, prioritize jobs, mobilize work force, spares and allocate resources

• Lead technicians in implementing in preventive and corrective maintenance

• Trouble shoot critical or major plant issues, participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) studies, plant improvement initiative, and drive cost management.

• Implement management initiatives to optimize the assets and seek to continuously improve on the methods, procedures and update with the latest developments in the market by adopting a suitable approach like proactive initiatives viz predictive and preventive maintenance activities and default actions like failure finding, redesign and run to failure

• Review budget, monitor spending against budget. control cost

• Upkeep risk registers, take part in safety walkdowns, implement safety initiatives, and ensure that good safety practices are practiced by all parties’ maintenance work

• Develop and establish maintenance procedures, risk assessment and method statements for all maintenance activities to ensure safe execution

• Ensure that maintenance works, and plant equipment comply with Statutory Requirements

• Successful candidate can be appointed as part of the Company Emergency Response Team (CERT) (training will be provided)

• Other ad-hoc duties as assigned

Qualification, Skills and Experience

• Degree in Mechanical engineering

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Power Plant environment or oil & gas industry

• Organized and detail oriented

• Good Team player and able to deliver results within tight deadlines

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

• Proactive in keeping up with new technologies and looking for solutions to optimize plant operations

• Independent with initiatives, resourceful and positive altitude

• Possess good leadership skills

• Good attitudes and willing to learn from experienced people

• Willing to conduct literature researches for problem solving and carry out root cause analysis