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$4,500 - $6,000 a month

Permanent

Jurong Island

About our client: Our client is a leading international chemical manufacturing company.

About the role: The Production Engineer is responsible for improving the production technology of the upcoming 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 utility consumption.
• Manage and improve process control system (DCS, SIS) and process data logging system.
• Support trial production and test run of new grades, new processes, and equipment with the Production Technology Engineer.
• Optimize plant operating efficiency, yield optimization, and energy conservation through feasibility studies and 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 assessment (HAZOP, LOPA, etc.) and support HSE department technically.
• Submit reports’ findings and recommend modifications, improvements, and potential investment projects such as debottlenecking and environmental and cost reduction activities.
• 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&IDs 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.
• Prepare specifications and requisitions for major equipment purchases, review vendors’ documents, conduct hazard analysis, performance tests, and commissioning activities.
• Coordinate with the Technical department for regular updates of P&IDs, instrument list, and equipment list.
• Communicate with the global process improvement team to build synergy for further technical updates of the new plant.

About you:

• 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 diagram (P&ID).
• Knowledge of mass and heat balance calculations of chemical plants.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, developing others, and working in a team-based environment.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication, presentation, interpersonal, creative thinking, consulting, and analytical skills.
• Ability to prioritize work to manage multiple projects to meet deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to multi-task.

Preferred qualifications:

• 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).

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

EA Name: Kingsforce Management Services Pte. Ltd.

EA License: 94C3545