Maintenance Area Lead

**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 a **Maintenance Area 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.
- Ensure 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.
- Responsible for performing frontline troubleshooting of equipment.
- Responsible for crossed discipline coordination to complete the principal maintenance task.
- Participate actively in Neste HSSEQ programs to achieve own, contractors, and functional HSSEQ targets.
- Responsible for resource and delivery assigned Turnaround, Project maintenance activities.
- Ensure compliance to the MOC, PHA, PSSR process.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with technical assurance and maintenance procedures.
- Set 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 soliciting input from all team members on opportunities for improvement.
- Responsible for constantly looking for opportunities to improve cost effectiveness.
- Provide feedback from execution work to the RCM focal point to improve preventative maintenance plans, optimise craft time, and drive reliability.
- Cooperate 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)
- Identify and justify the need to adjust staffing levels by working through the Area Maintenance Manager.
- Participate in the hiring process by interviewing prospective employees.
- Provide 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.

**OTHERS**
- Ensure all documentation is maintained, history is being captured, and any feedback is effectively being utilised. Be prepared for audits of this documentation.
- Contribute to the development of work procedures.
- Responsible for the development and implementation of maintenance effectiveness programs and the tracking of these programs. Looks for opportunities to eliminate low value work and replace it with vital work.
- Participate in contract setup scoping, shop visits, and vendor selection.
- Work with engineering and/or assist to eliminate bad actors by repair, replacement, or re-engineering. Much of this will be to recognize repeat issues and understand the root cause of issues. Guide and coach team to use Root Cause analysis, whether it be for everyday troubleshooting or as feedback to engineers or production.
- Understand the maintenance budget and work with the PMCs and Maintenance Manager to meet these budgets. They should be able to identify and explain any discrepancy with their budget. Provide support to the maintenance manager for budget planning. Must demonstrate fiscal responsibility by being aware of and supportive of maintenance budget and cost performance expectations
- As member of management extended leadership team in managing risks, overcoming challenges and steering direction of Singapore Refinery; contributes to the development and implementation of organisational strategies, policies and practices