Work Preparation & Scheduling Engineer

Reference ID R169983 Updated 03/20/2025

Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds

Location: Malaysia, Bintulu

What’s The Role

Opportunity to join as a R&M Work Preparation and Scheduling Engineer (WPSE) for the first Deepwater Sour Gas development in Sarawak, the Rosmari and Marjoram fields to deliver Operations and Maintenance Work Planning & Scheduling related tasks to ensure safe production of hydrocarbon within operating envelope, business targets and regulatory compliances.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Relentless pursuit of Goal zero target with no harm to people (Personal Safety) and no Leak (Process Safety).
• During project phase, ensure asset readiness and lead the integrated project and asset team to start up Offshore facilities and OGP safely and meeting SURU Target.
• During Operate phase, responsible to work on WPSE related SEAM processes.
• Deputises R&M Maintenance Lead roles and responsibilities, as and when necessary.
• Chairs the YTT & daily notification review.
• Responsible for overseeing end to end Operations and Maintenance team, Work Orders process in SAP, ensuring all PM/CM Work Orders are completed to requirements, materials ordered/secured, vendor/contractor engaged and translated into work packs for successful execution.
• Coordinate and follow up with activity owners to ensure work processes are optimized.
• Perform ready for execution checks and check material availability and readiness.
• Liaise with 3rd parties, vendors, contractors and visitors’ mobilization/demobilization to/from R&M OGP facilities as per activity plan in coordination.
• Ensure that PR/PO are in accordance with contract specifications and responsible for making payment to vendors.
• Support the 52-weeks, 90-days, 14-days and 7-days plan activities, work periodization and check resources, material, manpower availability.
• Manage material procurement – ordering, evaluation, expediting and following up.
• Prepare cost report and coordination with finance team.
• Monitor FSR status on daily basis. Coordinate action to notify activity owner to plan for mitigation when required due date is approaching.
• Close liaison with planners (Functional/IAPS/TA MM & Schedulers) and perform gatekeeping to ensure that the demand plan is delivered on time with required granularity/quality as per agreed demand planning process.
• Coordinate the planning and scheduling process and performance review within Maintenance & Operations, including identifying frozen activities and monitoring changes and improvements that contribute to overall maintenance deliver while ensuring maintenance cost efficiency and optimization.
• Collaborate with the TA MM team and function as block leads during turnarounds.
• Ensure maintenance related activities in collaboration with functional planners to deliver short-term (30-90 days), medium-term (1-2 years), and long-term (>2 years) activity planning across Maintenance Execution, Turnaround, Operations, Discipline Engineering, and Portfolio Projects.
• Ensure frontline productivity by managing the plan versus actual work schedule, including a 14-day sprint look-ahead. Verify and measure contractor project execution performance based on actual value of work done (VOWD) versus the workpack schedule, utilizing contract construction norms.
• Oversee the maintenance business planning and forecasting cycle, covering both operational expenditures (Opex) and capital expenditures (Capex), ensuring accurate and realistic forecasting to support strategic decision-making.
• Lead the analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs) on maintenance operational data and equipment performance history to deliver improvements in critical maintenance-related metrics, including unplanned downtime, preventive maintenance (PM) compliance, schedule compliance, mean-time-between-failures (MTBF), and maintenance-related costs.

What You Bring

• Min. 8 years of oil and gas frontline operations and maintenance, preferably with Sour Gas Plant experiences.
• Experience in managing prevention and corrective maintenance execution/improvement, including work planning and scheduling.
• Project management and planning experience.
• Degree in any Engineering discipline is preferred.
• Good leadership, stakeholder management, planning, communication/writing and problem-solving skills.

What We Offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs.

Shell in Malaysia

Shell has been a partner in powering Malaysia’s progress since 1891 when we established our first depot in the Straits Settlements. Today, we are an integrated energy company comprising Upstream, Downstream, Integrated Gas and New Energies, Projects & Technology, and Shell Business Operations. Shell Malaysia aims to be the leading energy player in the country, powering Malaysia’s future with cleaner, innovative and competitive energy solutions.