- Location: Singapore
- Employment Type: Permanent
- Function: Refining / Production Operations / Process Manufacturing
- Seniority: Senior Leadership – Reporting to Vice President.
Job Details
Stemgenic has been appointed by an established international process-industry organisation to identify a senior production leader for a major operating facility in Singapore. Reporting directly to the Site Vice President and serving as a member of the site leadership team, the successful candidate will hold overall accountability for a production line covering feedstock pretreatment and industrial wastewater treatment.
This is a broad operational leadership mandate encompassing safety, regulatory compliance, production performance, reliability, product quality, yield, cost management and organisational capability.
The role will lead a sizeable, multidisciplinary production organisation comprising functional leaders, professional staff, technical specialists and shift-based operations teams.
This is not a general production-management appointment. Candidates must bring credible, hands-on senior leadership experience in the pretreatment of oils and fats, together with a strong operational understanding of industrial wastewater treatment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the safe, compliant, reliable and efficient operation of the pretreatment and wastewater-treatment production areas.
- Own production performance across safety, availability, utilisation, throughput, quality, yield, cost and reliability.
- Translate business priorities into annual operating plans, targets and improvement programmes.
- Build a high-performance culture based on accountability, teamwork, ownership and disciplined execution.
- Drive continuous improvement across production capacity, process efficiency, operating procedures and workflows.
- Lead investigations into production interruptions, process deviations and equipment-related issues.
- Identify and manage operational risks across facilities, equipment, processes and procedures.
- Partner with Maintenance, Engineering, Process Safety, Projects, Turnaround, Procurement and Finance to improve asset performance and cost-effectiveness.
- Manage operating expenditure and support relevant capital-investment and asset-development initiatives.
- Lead workforce planning, recruitment, capability development, performance management, succession planning and employee engagement.
- Contribute to site strategy and performance as a member of the refinery leadership team.
- Maintain effective communication with senior management and represent the production function with regulators, authorities, contractors, vendors and industry stakeholders.
- Collaborate with regional and global teams to share best practices, technical solutions and performance-improvement initiatives.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline.
- More than 15 years of relevant experience within oil refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, renewable fuels or a comparable continuous-process manufacturing environment.
- At least 10 years of managerial or leadership experience within production, operations or plant management.
- Hands-on senior leadership experience in the pretreatment of oils and fats.
- Strong technical and operational understanding of industrial wastewater-treatment processes.
- Demonstrated knowledge of end-to-end value optimisation across feedstock pretreatment and wastewater-treatment operations.
- Proven experience leading a large, multidisciplinary production organisation, including functional leaders, specialists and shift-based teams.
Strong understanding of process safety, production economics, plant reliability, asset utilisation, yield improvement and operating-cost optimisation.
- Renewable fuels
- Vegetable-oil refining
- Oils-and-fats processing
- Oleochemicals
- Edible oils
- Specialty fats
- Biodiesel or renewable diesel
- Waste-based lipid feedstocks
- Used cooking oil processing
- Animal-fat processing
- Oil refining
- Petrochemicals
- Specialty chemicals
Large-scale continuous-process manufacturing
Candidates from adjacent sectors must still demonstrate direct and substantive experience in oils-and-fats pretreatment and industrial wastewater-treatment operations.
- Feedstock pretreatment
- Oils-and-fats purification
- Raw-material conditioning
- Degumming
- Neutralisation
- Bleaching
- Filtration
- Impurity removal
- Feedstock quality management
- Wastewater-treatment plants
- Effluent-treatment plants
- Biological treatment
- Chemical treatment
- Dissolved air flotation
- Anaerobic treatment
- Aerobic treatment
- Sludge management
- Water-quality compliance
- Process-water recovery
- Production-interruption investigations
- Asset reliability
- Process-safety management
- Yield and cost optimisation
- Senior leadership mandate with direct access to the Site Vice President.
- Membership of the site leadership team.
- Broad accountability across safety, production, reliability, cost and people.
- Leadership of a sizeable and technically complex production organisation.
- Opportunity to shape the production operating model, organisational capability and performance culture.
- Significant influence over the performance of a strategically important production line.
Exposure to regional and global technical, operational and leadership stakeholders.
- Their direct experience in oils-and-fats pretreatment.
- Their operational exposure to industrial wastewater treatment.
- The scale and structure of the production teams they have led.
- Their responsibility for safety, production performance, reliability, yield and operating cost.
Examples of major operational, organisational or performance improvements they have delivered.
Please be advised that due to the considerable number of applications we receive, we are only able to contact candidates who meet our client’s requirements.
We appreciate your understanding and wish you the best in your career endeavors.
Sathiyarajan Vinayagamani – SaVi
EA Personnel KAH Reg No: R1216080
EA License No: 23C1889
