Site Engineer-instrumentation

Vita Singapore is currently searching for an experienced Site Engineer - Instrumentation & Controls to join the Project Management & Construction team responsible for the build and delivery of a range of projects.

Vita Partners is the Asia-Pacific’s largest pan-regional pure-play life science, innovation and R&D real estate platform. The platform focuses on investing, acquiring, developing, constructing, managing, and operating real estate projects in fast-growing life sciences, innovation and R&D real estate markets in Asia-Pacific. The company operates within two main segments - a high-barrier-to-entry life sciences project construction management business and a specialized investment management business. Since the 2000s, the project construction management business has worked on over 200 projects in Asia-Pacific for more than 100 blue-chip life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, with many repeat clients.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate effectively with colleagues, clients, design consultants, and contractors to thoroughly comprehend project design and objectives.
- Utilize engineering documentation and electronic data to define work scope within system packages, facilitating commissioning and start-up activities in a controlled manner.
- Progressively transfer responsibilities to the start-up/commissioning organization, ensuring full acceptance by signature with an agreed-upon list of exception items to be completed by specific dates.
- Compile, store, and transfer construction turnover packs for final delivery to the client and Lendlease.

**Key Duties**:

- Foster a culture of Quality, Environmental Health, and Safety (Q-EHS) within the work package.
- Take charge of the Electrical and Process Control package, meeting deadlines and budgets using solid project management principles.
- Provide engineering support for the development and troubleshooting of Process Controls and electrical infrastructure installations.
- Review process and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID) and relate them to the design and implementation of control structures.
- Develop performance specifications for equipment vendors, conduct equipment selection, and prepare bid tabulations.
- Serve as a technical specialist, formulating engineering solutions and techniques for system installations.
- Assist in planning the electrical and controls portion of projects in terms of scope, cost management, and scheduling.
- Oversee activities to ensure construction, installation, and operational testing conform to specifications, codes, standards, and customer requirements.
- Define work package scope and participate in the contractor selection process.
- Perform supplier site visits to ensure equipment designs align with plant configurations.
- Generate site visit reports, contractor meeting minutes, project material listings, purchase orders, installation schedules, and system installations.
- Manage the release of design input to suppliers (integrators, contractors, hardware suppliers, etc.).
- Resolve technical issues identified by suppliers/contractors.
- Supervise and inspect field operations.
- Coordinate with QA/QC and turnover teams for the sucessful completion of the works and hand over to Commissioning teams and or Client
- Coordinate works with other trade packages and vendors

**Education & Experience**:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, Instrumentation, or Control Engineering or a related field.
- Completion of relevant Workplace Safety & Health courses for the construction sector.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in the construction delivery of large-scale life sciences and cGMP facilities, with experience in managing turnover processes for large-scale manufacturing projects, preferably in the Life Sciences sector.
- Experience in BMS, industrial control networks, and electrical power distribution systems.
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary design and construction teams.
- Strong communication skills to engage with clients, consultants, and contractors.
- Flexibility and the ability to work under pressure with a can-do attitude.
- A commitment to promoting open and informal communication, fostering mutual trust and teamwork.