Electrical Maintenance Technician

About Aster

Aster Chemicals and Energy (Aster) is a leading provider of chemical and energy solutions in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Aster is a joint venture led by Chandra Asri in partnership with Glencore Group. Building on the foundations of Singapore’s first oil refinery, our facilities on Pulau Bukom and Jurong Island serve as the nation’s hub for integrated refining and petrochemical production. Aster Bukom operates a 237,000 barrels per day refinery and a 1.1 million tonne per year ethylene cracker, while Aster Jurong Island produces essential petrochemicals that support industries across the region.

With over 60 years of heritage, Aster is shaping the future by driving progress and creating new opportunities for our people.  From advancing energy solutions to driving petrochemical innovation, we welcome you to join us in our journey that reflects our commitment to sustainability and operational excellence in an evolving industry landscape.

Together, we can achieve more—come be a part of it.

About the job

The primary role is to execute Electrical maintenance to the optimum level of performance for safe, reliable and efficient operation of the plant.

Job responsibilities:

• Compliance to HSSE standards and requirements to make Aster Jurong Island (AJI) a safe place to work, and accountable for all assigned Critical activities.
• Perform Authorized Applicant and/or Authorized Engineer as per AJI Permit to Work (e-PTW) requirement.
• Provides day-to-day hands-on maintenance and troubleshooting including contractor/specialist management for all Electrical maintenance related matters, delivered with high safety standards, comply to authorities such as EMA ACT, Electricity ACT, local industrial and company HSE standards to ensure the equipment validity and availability.
• Participate FAT/SAT and Functional testing to ensure electrical equipment’s are meeting the design intent when required.
• Responsible for carrying out preventive as well as corrective maintenance works and ensuring plant equipment availability.
• Participate in AMS ME assessment and determine Electrical equipment maintenance task and schedule.
• Prepares job specifications and costing for works involved and apply work clearance / permit for work execution.
• Shall be conversant with HSE and Permit to work requirements in petroleum and petrochemical industry.
• Participate and execute for Turnaround/ pitstop events in related Process Units (PUs).
• Perform electrical equipment condition monitoring whenever required & liaise with relevant subject matter experts/specialist/OEM to address any arising issues, problems & concerns.
• In order to ensure AJI’s assets operate safely & reliably, without suffering any process safety incident or causing life-changing events to person(s), the staff is accountable to ensure compliance to those Critical Activities assigned for the Job Position.
• Provide good documentation to ensure all equipment technical records and drawings are updated to reflect the latest changes.
• Maintains work requests and records on maintenance works using computerized maintenance management systems, GSAP-PM.
• Attend callout to the Emergency work upon request.
• To carry out electrical QC checks including insulation resistance test, continuity test, loop check, motor winding resistance test.
• To report timely to EIQ Lead engineer on the progress of work, issues encountered.

Job requirements:

• Diploma/ITE in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in Electrical construction/ installation in oil & gas, chemical & petrochemical industry.
• Holder of AWSHPP (Supervisor) certification for petrochemical industry.
• Qualified MOM man-hole (Supervisor) and confined space entrant.
• Qualified WAH (preferred).

We thank you for your interest. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for a discussion.