Automation Engineer

Responsible for Automation & Instrumentation maintenance and project activities. Evaluate all the maintenance event (breakdown and preventive demands) to propose solution and support maintenance process inspection, planning and execution to guarantee and improve equipment and system availability. Assist Maintenance Supervisor on preparing, compiling and analyse all document related to arrangement of Health, Safety and Environment Control and Monitoring, Sustaining of 5S maturity, Continuous Improvement activities through KAIZEN, VPS Compliance, Maintenance Work Order arrangement and allocation, validating control risk assessment, maintenance performance tracking, control and monitor for productivity and performance KPI.

Responsible for governance and performance management of outsourced automation contracts. Provides technical guidance for automation system upgrades, maintenance strategies, and continuous improvement projects. Improve automation system reliability and availability while balancing production requirements, maintenance costs, and operational risks.

Develop sustainable local expertise and reduce dependency on external specialists through structured training and knowledge transfer. Ensure quality and safety compliance during critical shutdown and major automation interventions. Act according to the ethical code of the company, passing the values to team. Execute routine safety and technical inspections on equipment and execution of task on site.

Participate in meetings on daily basis; Toolbox talk, Daily Manager FMDS meeting, Shutdown Progress Meeting and other meeting when required. Support actions to achieve target of equipment availability and installations through maintenance activities for Automation & Instrumentation either by automation staff or contractors while comply to VMM HSE Procedures.

Compile, analyse, identify and updating FMDS and KPI monitoring on weekly basis for Safety, People, Productivity, Quality and Cost. To compile and update all relevant document related to YPM ensuring it is according to plan and relevant to current situation while fulfil the maintenance and HSE requirement. Orientate, develop and teach technically the team in order to improve quality works and performance.

Assure maintenance knowledge through coordination, elaboration and update of the operational procedures, instruction and standards. Leading team to initiate MOC, MOS and JSA especially job awarded to contractor before sending a demand to planning team. To continuous review and revise all related document related to Automation and Instrumentation such as SOP, Work Instruction, JSA and etc.

Contribute in detection, report and eliminate of abnormalities in the operational process through control of the process variables, using quality tools such as Pareto, Failure Analysis, Loss Profile and Others that could be applied. Assist on 5S initiative (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) methodology to maintain workplace to a set maturity.

Ensure scheduling and executing as per agreed plan to comply with department KPI. Execute initial control for new assets and follow maintenance engineering procedures. Assist to implement Maintenance Management System and VPS implementation to adhere to all 14 element such as FMDS, DBM / DBO. Assist engineering team to analyse equipment breakdown failures, proposing improvements initiative and lead to execute the corrective and improvement activities proposed.

Develop analysis tools for decision making, as well as data to inform budgeting. Develop improvement project taking care from the basic project, details engineering, execution, commissioning and test till ramp up. Experience: Minimum 3 years working related to instrumentation and automation. Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Instrumentation / Automation Effective leadership ability with effective interpersonal skills Able to work cross functionally and collaboratively with many stakeholders with a track record of proven experience of leadership, motivation and engaging teams.

Lean Maintenance knowledge and recognized problem solving tools. Work independently with minimal supervision Communicate with clarity and demonstrate excellence approach to work with people activities. Ability to plan, manage, analyses and challenge: wide variety of activities at the same time Bachelor / Degree in Automation / Instrumentation Engineering or related field.

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