Technical Manager (Jurong Island)

Keppel Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Keppel Ltd. is seeking an experienced Power Plant Engineering Manager in Singapore to lead a multi-disciplinary team. You will drive reliability improvements, manage maintenance planning, and ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental standards.

The role requires extensive power plant operations/maintenance experience, strong leadership, and ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to safeguard continuous plant availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s in engineering from a recognised university.
• 15 years of power-plant related technical operations/maintenance experience.
• Experience in erection, commissioning and start-up of modern power stations.
• Strong knowledge of Combined Cycle Power Station operations and O&M.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety, Environment and Quality management practices.
• Able to lead diverse teams and handle high-pressure outages.

Responsibilities

• Ensure sound HSE culture and legal compliance for all activities in Power Plants.
• Manage and document Change Management (MOC) within the Quality Management system.
• Identify, propose and implement improvements to enhance reliability and efficiency of Power Plants.
• Support the team to achieve highest reliability and fast recovery during outages.
• Liaise with LTSA contractors and internal/external stakeholders to safeguard plant performance.

Skills

Team leadership

Multicultural teamwork

Stress management

Problem solving

Proactive monitoring

Education

Bachelor or Master engineering degree

Management/Safety/Project/Quality (advantage)

Tools

Control & Instrumentation

Job description

• Ensure the implementation of sound HSE culture in the Power Plants
• Ensure the legal compliance on all the activities in the Power Plants with respect to Health and Safety, industrial requirements and statutory requirements etc
• Ensure that the activities of the Power Plants, especially related with Management of Change (MOC) are managed, controlled and documented through the Quality Management system
• Support the Team to achieve highest level of reliability of the Power Plants
• Support the Team during un-availability scenarios to ensure fast recovery of the Power Plants
• Identify Propose and Implement process improvements to enhance reliability and efficiency of the Power Plants
• Analise technical problems in the Power Plants and propose and implement solutions to prevent or mitigate the consequences of such problems
• Analise Power Plants incidents and propose corrective actions to avoid recurrence
• Monitor proactively Power Plants Operations to anticipate technical problems
• Support to develop and implement tools that enable better monitoring of Power Plants, Systems and Equipment performance
• Support the Team in the preparation and execution of the Planned Maintenance
• Provide managerial guidance, direction, develop and motivate Power Plants Team
• Liaise with the external stakeholders for the daily operative issues
• Liaise with the internal stakeholders to ensure reliable and efficient operation of the Power Plants
• Liaise with third party stakeholders, specially LTSA Contractors, to ensure the fulfilment of the respective contractual requirements to safeguard the interest of the Power Plants

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor or Masters engineering Degree from an accredited university.
• Additional qualifications in Management Administration, Safety, Project, Emergency or Quality Management would be an advantage
• Mandatory 15 years relevant power plant-related technical experience in the operations and/or Maintenance Departments
• Sound experience in the erection, commissioning and initial start-up phases of a modern Power Station.
• Sound understanding, knowledge and experience of Combined Cycle Power Station setup and O&M activities.
• Sound understanding of Combined Cycle Power Station process.
• Relevant knowledge of Control and Instrumentations of Power Plants
• Relevant knowledge on Combined Cycle performance analysis and optimisation.
• Detailed knowledge and experience of modern Health, Safety and Environmental, and Quality Management practices
• Ability to lead teams and manage numerous personnel, especially during critical plant outage periods
• Ability to work in multicultural team and able to perform under stress.
• Ability to support the Team on “ad hoc” basis to guarantee highest level of availability of the Power Plants