Engineering Services Head; Utilities, Power Plant); Jurong

Engineering Services Head (Utilities, Power Plant) (Based in Jurong Island) Singapore, West, Singapore 10 - 15 Years Permanent

Sembcorp is a leading energy and urban solutions provider headquartered in Singapore. Led by its purpose to drive energy transition , Sembcorp delivers sustainable energy solutions and urban developmentsby leveraging its sector expertise and global track record.

Drive Asia’s energy transition with us! O ur Gas & Related Services segment is a key growth engine, delivering reliable and efficient energy to industries and communities across multiple countries. We support Asia’s growing energy needs while advancing the shift toa lower-carbon future.

The Engineering Services Head will lead the Engineering Services department within Utilities Asset Management (UAM), providing technical leadership and governance to ensure safe, reliable, efficient, compliant, and sustainable operation of UAM assets. The role is responsible for monitoring and improving plant performance, strengthening reliability management, supporting brown-field project interfaces, maintaining engineering documentation and QA/QC standards, and embedding Process Safety Management (PSM) discipline across the asset lifecycle.

This is a senior leadership role suited for an experienced engineering professional who can translate operational data into actionable improvement plans, provide sound technical judgement, and work collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance, HSSE, Projects, Commercial, and external stakeholders.

• Monitor, track, and report key plant performance indicators, including heat rate, thermal efficiency, auxiliary consumption, water and wastewater performance, emissions-related parameters, and other asset-specific performance measures.
• Lead performance analysis to identify degradation trends, operational gaps, efficiency losses, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and maintain performance dashboards, reporting routines, and technical insights to support management decision-making.
• Work with Operations and Maintenance teams to translate performance findings into practical corrective actions and sustained improvement initiatives.

• Own the reliability performance management framework, including measurement and reporting of MTTR, MTBF, forced outage drivers, repeat failures, and chronic equipment issues.
• Lead and institutionalise the Bad Actor Program to identify, prioritise, and eliminate recurring equipment and system reliability issues.
• Facilitate structured Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) for significant failures, incidents, trips, and abnormal events, ensuring corrective and preventive actions are robust and tracked to closure.
• Partner with Maintenance and Operations to improve asset strategies, preventive and predictive maintenance effectiveness, spares strategy, and long-term reliability plans.

• Provide engineering support for brown-field projects, modifications, upgrades, and asset improvement initiatives from concept through commissioning and handover.
• Act as the technical interface between UAM and project teams, contractors, OEMs, consultants, regulatory bodies, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure engineering documentation, drawings, technical records, Management of Change documentation, and handover packages are complete, accurate, controlled, and fit for operational use.
• Establish and govern QA/QC expectations for engineering deliverables, site works, testing, inspection, and commissioning readiness.
• Oversee Service Corridor-related engineering matters, ensuring safe access, reliable service integration, and compliance with…