Job Description

Maintenance Area Lead

Location: Singapore, 05, SG

Country/Region: SG

Job Area: Maintenance

Business Unit: Singapore


Are You Our Next Difference Maker?

We are looking for an Area Maintenance Lead to join our Maintenance team in Neste Singapore.
We have a team of experts working in Maintenance team. Our team is responsible to achieve minimum breakdown and to keep the plant in good working condition at the lowest possible cost. We also ensure machines and other facilities should be kept in such a condition which permits them to be used at their optimum capacity without any interruption or hindrance.
Your part in Neste journey
In this role, your main responsibilities include
Maintenance Execution

• Ensure all aspects of Safety, Environmental, Quality and Cost are being met
• Accountable for execution of all maintenance work in accordance with the local Authorities requirement, Industry and Neste rules and regulations.
• Ensures Neste and Contract Resources are available for scheduled jobs and special services. Manage, coach, and facilitate a team to execute maintenance activities. Distribute and discuss jobs daily.
• Jointly discusses new job priority with Operation and Planners.
• Responsible for performing frontline troubleshooting of equipment.
• Shall attend the daily operational and co-ordination meetings.
• Responsible for crossed discipline coordination to complete the principle maintenance task.
• Participate actively in Neste HSSEQ programs to achieve own, contractors, and functional HSSEQ targets.
• Responsible to resource and deliver assigned Turnaround, Project maintenance activities.
• Ensure compliance to the Management of Change (MOC), Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR) process.
• Understanding, supporting and applying Neste recommended practices for best in class results.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with technical assurance and maintenance procedures.
• Setting a safety culture to ensure a personal and continuous care around the safety of anyone at site.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Responsible for working closely with team members and solicits input from all team members on opportunities for improvement.
• Responsible to constantly look for opportunities to improve cost effectiveness.
• Provides feedback from execution work to the RCM focal point to improve preventative maintenance plans, optimize craft time, and drive reliability.
• Cooperates with reliability to continuously improve equipment and operational reliability and sustainable work flow processes and systems in a safe and cost effective manner

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

• Ensure the team members have the proper skills to manage and execute the work they are assigned, work with the technical disciplines and competency development and assurance to develop training plans to supplement weak areas, improve techniques/skills and introduce new equipment.
• Accountable for assessing each team member to provide assurance on competency.
• Responsible for recruiting, selecting, managing, coaches and motivates the maintenance execution team, provides guidance and direction on problems and issues; delegates work assignments considering personal skills and development needs.
• Manage craft issues (absenteeism, vacation, grievances, productivity, hourly performance evaluations)
• Promote craft flexibility.
• Identifying and justifying the need to adjust staffing levels by working through the Area Maintenance Manager. Participates in the hiring process by interviewing prospective employees.
• Providing performance evaluations, ranking/rating and career planning for the maintenance personnel in your team to the Area Maintenance Manager. The Team Leader is expected to use coaching and counselling techniques to develop the maintenance effectiveness skills of the craft team members.

You will report to the Maintenance Manager in Neste Singapore refinery in Tuas.
Keys to success in this role
The best combination of experiences, skills and background is

• Degree/Diploma in Engineering or equivalent
• At least 5 years relevant experience in refinery and petrochemical in the same position for 3 years.
• Prior Experience in Projects and TAs execution
• Knowledgeable with international standards, petroleum /petrochemical plant materials and equipment
• Experienced in maintenance work control, planning, reliability methodologies
• Good communication with strategic thinking, negotiation and business sense
• Leadership qualities with good interpersonal people management skills to manage conflicts

We also value

• Methodologies in PHA, HAZOP, MAPP, LOPA, Hazard Identifications & Risk Assessment, Bowtie, Safety Cases
• Management System for Health Safety & Environment

The recruitment process will include interviews and possible aptitude assessment.
The person selected for the position must pass a health. A security clearance is obtained for the persons with their consent.
Join us in creating a healthier planet for our children.
Our success is based on our people who are the driving force behind Neste’s transformation to become a global leader in renewable and circular solutions. We are also committed to carbon neutral production by 2035. The passion that we have for creating a healthier planet for our children is what makes us unique.
We have set high standards for biodiversity, human rights and supply chain. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies.
To carry out our strategy and business growth, our values guide our work. We support, develop and take care of the wellbeing of our people to enable them to grow, innovate and build our future.
We care. We have courage. We cooperate.
At Neste we want our people to feel good and do good. We provide clear and transparent targets, development opportunities, empowering leadership as well as rewards based on role and responsibilities.
Neste’s strategy is called ‘’Faster, Bolder and Together’. It reflects the understanding that there is no time to lose in combating climate change or helping to tackle the waste plastic challenge. In order to succeed, we need to act, innovate new solutions and deliver them faster and bolder than ever before – together.
In the end, it is the people who make the company. We are Neste.
For more information, please visit neste.com.