Head - Engineering and Maintenance

The Client

Our client is one of Asia’s largest diversified conglomerates with interest in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Logistics & Distribution, Textiles, Life Sciences and several other businesses. The group has recorded phenomenal growth over the past few decades and has emerged as a strong global player in several segments of its businesses. In view of this massive expansion, our client wishes to strengthen its existing teams in key areas and is looking for a senior professional to join the corporate team as:

Position : Head - Engineering and Maintenance
Job Code : Energy/H-E&M/0209/MO
Location : Major Asian City

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Corporate Head of Manufacturing, the selected candidate will lead a team of subject matter experts to drive standardized engineering & maintenance excellence initiatives across all group manufacturing facilities. The position is a corporate role overseeing several mega-sized manufacturing plants including oil refineries and petrochemical facilities.

He/she will lead teams of highly qualified experts from areas like E&M Strategy, Rotary and Static Equipment, Electrical, Instrumentation, Civil Engineering, Spares, Contracts, and E&M Training & Development; drive maintenance strategy and policy development and monitor their compliance; Assist in building world class maintenance systems, tools & techniques and models; drive implementation of latest techniques like TPM (total productive maintenance),
Integrated maintenance management system, Six sigma etc.; and drive implementation of innovative maintenance supply chain management solutions

The selected candidate will help maximise plant capacity utilization, yield, reliability and safety at the lowest cost; assist in training (including content development, delivery and certification) and in developing knowledge management systems with specific reference to corporate E&M programs.

Other responsibilities include suggestions for cost reduction opportunities; installation of effective Performance Management Systems and conduct of Compliance Audits; and provision of expert inputs into new plant design from a maintenance perspective

Key Result Areas will include Maintenance Excellence; Plant Uptime, Reliability and Safety; Productivity & Cost; Compliance; and Talent and Capability building

Requirements

Ideal candidates will be engineering graduates from premier institutes with at least 20~25 years of experience in Engineering & Maintenance of large and complex refining, chemicals or petrochemicals plants.

They should have in-depth knowledge and expertise in global best practices, multi-location standardisation, world-class systems, models, tools and techniques. They should be familiar with leading large teams of technical experts and manage the entire Maintenance Supply Chain.

They should ideally have a strong track record of driving excellence programs in large multi-site corporate environment; and strong Leadership, Analytical, Planning & Execution, Communication and Interpersonal skills.

Contacts

Mrigank Ojha
Executive Vice President
Maxima Global Executive Search Pte Ltd
36 Robinson Road, #12-01
City House, Singapore 068877

Tel : +65-6536-1828
Fax : +65-6536-9877

Email : energy@maxima.com.sg