Production Specialist [Company Transport provided | Near Jurong East MRT | 5 Days] - SM09

Production Engineer

• Working hours: 5 Days (Mon to Fri) / 8 am to 4.30pm
• Location: Jurong Island (Company transport provided near Jurong East MRT)
• Salary Range: $4500 - $6000

Position Summary:
The Production Engineer is responsible for improving the production technology of the EVAL site which will be launched in the second half of 2026. The Production Engineer supports the production team for identifying, investigating, and resolving production issues in technical aspects. The Production Engineer leads technology for process control (DCS, SIS), operation condition, and product quality improvement and joins project work related to production technology development and improvement. Until the startup of EVAL production line, training and learning opportunities of EVAL production technology are provided by experienced members in the Company. The Production Engineer will be a member of the commissioning and startup team of the new EVAL plant and is responsible for designing and optimizing the process condition and process control system (DCS) and supports other production team members to achieve safe and stable commissioning and startup of the new EVAL plant.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, review, and update all process control documents, procedures, and operation condition sheets in consultation with Production Superintendent and Day Supervisors from Operation.
• Identify, analyze, troubleshoot, and improve process efficiency, equipment performance, product yield, capacity, quality, process material uses, and utilities consumption.
• Manage and improve process control system (DCS, SIS) and process data logging system.
• Support trial production and test runs of new grades, new processes, and equipment with Production Technology Engineer.
• Optimize plant operating efficiency, yield optimization, and energy conservation with feasibility studies; conduct necessary field tests to verify results.
• Provide technical support for Silo & Packaging process, including corrective measures for customer complaints from a technical viewpoint.
• Lead process safety assessments (HAZOP, LOPA, etc.) and support the HSE department technically.
• Submit reports’ findings and recommend modifications, improvements, and potential investment projects such as debottlenecking, environmental and cost reduction activities (i.e., reduction or more efficient usage of utilities).
• Coordinate with the technical section for process simulation, evaluation, investigation, performance, and yield optimization.
• Perform basic engineering design for all potential investment projects, prepare marked-up P&ID’s and the required technical information for cost estimation purposes.
• Coordinate with the Technical department for all plant improvement and modification activities, working closely with the Technical Process engineer to prepare detailed engineering design, specifications, and requisitions for major equipment purchases, review vendors’ documents, conduct hazard analyses, performance tests, and commissioning activities.
• Coordinate with the Technical department for regular updates of P&ID’s, instrument lists, and equipment lists.
• Communicate with the global EVAL process improvement team to build synergy for further technical updates of the KAP EVAL plant.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, or engineering.
• Minimum five (5) years of relevant engineering/production work experience in the Chemical industry.
• Experience in designing or optimizing the process control system of chemical plants.
• Basic engineering skills with utilizing process and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID).
• Knowledge of mass and heat balance calculations of chemical plants.

Preferred Requirements:

• Master’s degree in chemical engineering.
• Knowledge and experience in chemical process simulations (e.g., polymerization, other reaction processes, distillation, drying, etc.).
• Technical understanding of the polymer extrusion process.
• Knowledge of DCS programming and parameter tuning (PID control).
• Experience in lean manufacturing methods (e.g., 5S, Six Sigma, Kaizen, TPM).
• High proficiency in Excel including VBA, macros, or other related software engineering tools.
• Experience with leading Capex projects.
• Experience with Management of Change (MOC), Process safety assessment (PHA, HAZOP, LOPA, FMEA, QRA, etc.), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).