Operations Engineer

Workplace Health & Safety

As a Puma Energy employee, while at work you must:

• Take reasonable care for your own health and safety and for the health and safety of other people, including people working under your supervision or direction who may be affected by your acts or omissions at the workplace;
• Comply with any reasonable direction given to you by your supervisor with respect to any health and safety matter under the applicable Workplace Health & Safety, and Environmental legislation requirements;
• Comply with Puma Energy’s HSSE Policy, Risk Management, and Drug & Alcohol Policies; HSSE Standards and Procedures; and
• Be aware that during the course of your daily duties, where you assume responsibility for the health or welfare of any other person in a workplace by providing instruction, direction, assistance, advice or service, then you become an “accountable person”, and you must discharge any duty or obligation imposed by Workplace Health & Safety legislation requirements.

As a leadership team member, you are responsible to ensure that:

• All HSSE practices, processes and objectives are specified and followed by your employees, contractors, and visitors;
• Puma Energy’s HSSE Policy, Risk Management, and Drug & Alcohol Policies; and applicable HSSE Standards and Procedures are effectively communicated to your employees, contractors, and visitors;
• All your employees, contractors, and visitors comply with the requirements of the Puma Energy’s HSSE related Policies, Standards, and Procedures while at work;
• Workplace hazards with the potential to impact your employees, contractors, and visitors’ health and welfare are identified and controlled;
• Risk Assessment applicable to your employee and contractor’s work assignment are prepared, reviewed, and compliant with the associated Puma Energy HSSE requirements;
• Any HSSE concerns referred by your employees, contractors, and visitors are addressed promptly; and

• Project execution includes a documented assessment of project related HSSE risks and that the hierarchy of controls is employed to reduce the risk to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).

Quality Management System Compliance

• Comply and support the Quality Management system in all aspects of your role.
• Adopt and implement the principles of continuous improvement in all aspects of your role.
• Ensure the awareness of customer requirements (internal & external) are promoted throughout the business.
• Review, monitor and provide feedback on the effectiveness of the quality management system.
• Engage, support and continuously improve communication processes that support the quality management system and provide positive outcomes for the business, customers and key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Process Improvement & Optimization

• Monitor, optimizes and troubleshoots production processes for efficiency, quality and cost effectiveness.
• Conduct studies to identify bottlenecks, analyse process efficiency, and develop technical recommendations for operational improvements.
• Provide engineering input into the design, modification, and optimization of bitumen storage tanks, heating systems, pipelines, and loading/unloading facilities.

2. Project Planning & Delivery

• Develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, and resource plans for terminal infrastructure and process upgrades.
• Manage the full project lifecycle from concept design through to commissioning and handover.
• Coordinate with contractors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on project objectives.

3. Technical & Engineering Support

• Provide engineering input into the design, modification, and optimization of the bitumen facility e.g., storage tanks, heating systems, pipelines, loading/unloading facilities, electrical & instrumentation, fire-fighting and other relevant system.
• Ensure all designs meets regulatory requirement and approval (e.g., DOSH, DOE etc.), familiar and understands relevant industry standards (e.g., API, ASME etc.) and company specifications.
• Conduct feasibility studies and risk assessments for proposed projects.

4. Data Analysis & Performance Monitoring

• Analyze operational data, develop KPIs and performance metrics, and provide technical insights to operations management.
• Create dashboards and technical reports on facility performance.

5. Safety, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure operations and projects executed comply with workplace health and safety regulations, environmental legislation, and terminal-specific safety protocols.
• Implement safety processes and philosophies into the execution e.g., hazard identification (HAZID), hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies, safety management system etc.
• Maintain a strong focus on process safety, particularly in high-temperature bitumen handling and storage.

6. Stakeholder Engagement

• Liaise with operations, maintenance, safety and commercial teams to ensure project outcomes meet operational needs.
• Communicate operational & process update or project progress, risks, and issues to management and relevant stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with external contractors, consultants, and regulatory bodies.

7. Cost & Schedule Control

• Monitor CAPEX & OPEX expenditure and progress against approved budgets and timelines.
• Implement corrective actions to address deviations in cost or schedule.
• Prepare regular status reports on CAPEX & OPEX expenditure for management review.

8. Management of Change (MOC)

• Lead all management of change activity for operations & project activity, growing MOC capability in the team and applying continuous improvement to the MOC process and tools.

9. Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve terminal efficiency, reliability, and safety through engineering solutions.
• Support the implementation of new technologies for heating, pumping, and storage systems.
• Capture lessons learned from completed projects to enhance future project delivery

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Tertiary education in an Engineering related discipline (Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical preferred).
• Minimum registered as a Graduate Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM).
• Project management certified e.g., PMP ® or Prince2®.

Experience, Skills & Competencies:

• Minimum 5 years’ oil & gas, petrochemical, or bulk liquid storage facilities (bitumen experience highly desirable).
• Strong knowledge of tank farm operations, heating systems, and pipeline infrastructure.
• Understand and able to interpret engineering design drawings, P&ID’s, single line diagrams, logic control, engineering calculations and other relevant engineering documentations.
• Knowledgeable or familiar with electrical, instrumentation and control system.
• Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Commitment to safety and environmental stewardship.
• The ability to lead, motivate and work collaboratively with others.
• Demonstrates resilience and is action biased.