Operating Engineer

Are you our next creator of change?

This is for you who wants to have a real impact on creating a healthier planet for our children every day. At Neste, you will be working for the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. Let’s create transformation for a sustainable future together.

We are looking for you,

Operating Engineer

to our Operations team in Tuas, Singapore.

You will focus on assisting the development, optimizing, troubleshooting of plant process and equipment to achieve high operational utilization, availability, profitability, flexibility, process safety and overall safety.  In this job you will work closely with Operations Manager. to operate integrated refinery safe, reliable and efficient.

Together with you and your expertise, we can make an impact today and keep our promises for tomorrow.
 

Reasons to join

Real impact right now. We work in an inspiring and evolving business environment, where everything we do serves one purpose: to create a healthier planet for our children. To drive a growing impact as a global leader in renewable and circular solutions we live by our values every day; we care, we have courage, we cooperate.

Safety and caring. We value safety always and everywhere. We want our work to feel good and do good. At Neste, we nurture a culture where everyone is welcome and feels safe, respected, and encouraged to be their unique true selves.

Exciting growth. Transformation brings new possibilities and fosters our courage and curiosity. As a global growing company, we support personal development with versatile learning and career opportunities. Collaboration is the key, and we believe in flexible, smart ways of working.

More about the job

Your role in our team / in creating a sustainable future

• Responsible for the execution of the S&OP plan of the unit she/ he is in charge of
• Responsible for the monitoring of plant efficiency and provides (daily) instructions/ orders to the shift teams
• Responsible for the review and update of start-up, shutdown and operating guidelines or instructions and procedures.
• Responsible for Initiating and applying multi-disciplinary process design and control strategies in relation to processes and systems
• Responsible of finding and resolving different process limitations and optimising production to ensure high utilisation and availability
• Responsible for catalyst / absorbent etc. follow up and lead team to i.e. change out absorbent
• Responsible to monitor and optimise the day-to-day consumption of chemicals, additives and/ or any other consumables for the assigned units
• Responsible for the first line troubleshooting, optimisation and engineering support of the assigned unit
• Responsible for correct reporting of several daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports like; Utility reporting, KPI reporting etc.
• Responsible for optimisation on assigned unit’s contribution to the CPEI, Carbon footprint and energy efficiency of the integrated refinery
• Responsible for to facilitate/ participate in safety assessments like i.e. HAZOP, PHA
• Investigation lead of Incidents/Near miss investigations
• Key member and Responsible to drive the Act to Improve program for the Singapore refinery
• Member of the Operational Excellence team
• Responsible for correctness, review and improvement of assigned Operations NMS Work Procedures
• Responsible for the Operating Manual for the assigned units in charge
• Responsible as change manager in small optimisation/ improvement projects
• Responsible to review interlock bypass forms
• Liaison of Operations to 3rd parties/suppliers

Responsibilities in other processes

• Responsible as appointed Operations Engineering representatives at plant investment projects (PIPE)
• Responsible to be Operations Engineering representatives for PHA studies
• Responsible as Operations Engineering representatives other studies, projects
• Responsible for verification of invoicing variable production costs by tracking consumption of utilities/ chemicals of assigned units
• Responsible for improving the competency, knowledge retention of the Operations team with respect to the technology or technical aspects of the assigned units etc.

Keys to success in this role

• Minimum Bachelor in Chemical Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in oil refining and petrochemical industries
• Strong interpersonal and planning skills
• High safety standard and strong influencing skills
• Good team player and positive thinking

Let’s get you started

Wondering whether we are a match or not? Take a short test at neste.com/game.

We look forward to receiving your CV and application (with a salary request).

We will do our best to contact you within 2 weeks after the application time has ended. The recruitment process will include interviews and a possible aptitude assessment. (The person selected for the position must pass a health examination including a drug test. A security clearance is obtained with their consent.)

About Neste
Neste creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. With over 75 years of refining expertise, we are now the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner in developing renewable and circular feedstock solutions for polymers and chemicals. We have set aspirational targets for climate, biodiversity, human rights, as well as our supply chain and raw materials. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. Together with our partners we are aiming at a carbon neutral and nature positive value chain by 2040. Our success is created by 5,400 professionals working in 16 countries. Read more: neste.com.  Get inspired by our story.