Senior Process Engineer

About the role

Air Liquide Singapore Private Limited (ALSg), the largest industrial gas company in south-east Asia, is hiring a Senior Process Engineer. The role ensures maximum plant availability, supply reliability and site safety by overseeing equipment maintenance, vendor quality and strict compliance with safety protocols such as Safe Work Permits, Management of Change (MOC) and Integrated Management Systems (IMS). It also leads root cause analysis for operational incidents, controls site OPEX/CAPEX budgets and supervises technician training, daily handovers and cross-departmental coordination.

Key responsibilities

• Execute monthly maintenance schedules, audit vendor work quality, evaluate maintenance deferral justifications and ensure work order closures to maximise equipment reliability and plant uptime.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) investigations for site incidents and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) locally and across related sites.
• Enforce compliance with Safe Work Permits, risk assessments, MOC protocols and quarterly scenario action plans, and encourage near-miss reporting.
• Manage operational expenditures (OPEX) within target budgets and prepare technical and financial justifications for capital expenditure (CAPEX) facility improvements.
• Maintain IMS compliance, complete audit action items and ensure consistent supply reliability and plant availability standards.
• Supervise site personnel training and qualification records, run regular execution audits and lead daily handover meetings.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical or Process Engineering or a relevant field.
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in the chemical, petrochemical or industrial gas sector.
• Ability to lead site technicians, enforce execution standards and manage daily shift handovers and cross-departmental coordination.
• Excellent communication skills to interface with internal teams, external vendors and facility management.

Required skills

• Solid technical knowledge of site equipment maintenance regimes, plant availability strategies and vendor quality management.
• Strong grasp of process safety and risk management tools, including HAZOP, FMEA, Safe Work Permits and MOC workflows.
• Practical financial acumen to monitor OPEX against budgets and justify CAPEX upgrades.