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Assistant Engineer, Integrated Facilities Maintenance

9/25/2025

The Assistant Engineer will lead a team to perform routine inspections and maintenance of MRT structures, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. They will also coordinate outsourced maintenance work and handle fault investigations.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

5,001-10,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
SMRT Corporation Ltd (SMRT) is a leading public transport services provider in Singapore. As the nation's dominant rail operator, SMRT manages and operates the North-South Line, East-West Line, Circle Line, Thomson-East Coast Line, and Bukit Panjang Light Rail Transit. These services are complemented by its bus, taxi, and private hire vehicle operations. Through Kaizen, SMRT enhances lifestyles by creating vibrant transit destinations for commuters and the communities it serves. In addition, SMRT collaborates with Malaysia's Prasarana to design, build, and subsequently operate, and maintain the RTS Link, which will enhance cross-border connectivity between Singapore and Johor. SMRT's core values are encapsulated in the acronym R.I.S.E, which stands for Respect, Integrity, Safety, Service, and Excellence. SMRT is dedicated to providing safe, reliable, and commuter-centric transport services. Terms of Use: We welcome your comments, constructive feedback and suggestions. We expect that our users follow the Terms of Use and share their opinions respectfully. We do not discriminate against any view, but we reserve the right to remove comments that contain vulgarities, are personal attacks against individuals or are deemed inappropriate and/ or disrespectful towards users of our page. For the purpose of constructive discussions, please note that SMRT reserves the right to remove irrelevant or offensive comments. Users who breach the above-mentioned may also be banned from this page.
About the Role

 

Job Purpose

The Assistant Engineer (AE) will perform preventive maintenance (PM), corrective maintenance (CM) and fault attendance tasks for the equipment within IFM purview, in accordance with quality and safety standards. To ensure works carried out comply to Work Instructions (WI), Work Records (WR) and maintenance manuals. The AE will also investigate incident/ accidents, carry out checks to ensure safety aspects comply to SMRT Work Safety Manual and guarantee quality assurance in accordance with Code of Practise or SMRT Quality Procedures (QP).

 

Responsibilities

  • To lead a team to perform routine inspections of MRT structures, including stations, depots, viaducts and tunnels  
  • To lead a team to carry out preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance works. Typical maintenance work include concrete repair, leakage repair, servicing of plumbing systems, scaffolding erections. Other ad-hoc work may be assigned
  • Arrange, coordinate and supervise outsourced preventive and maintenance work by  outsourced contractors
  • Attend to faults / complaints  and carry out investigation and rectification works
  • Perform the role of track PIC (Person-In-Charge) and PM (Possession Master) duties to ensure the safety of the work parties on MRT tracks
  • Record maintenance work both on papers and computer systems (e.g. SAP/Maximo)
  • Attend inspection for taking-over of new buildings & infrastructures
  • Drive vehicles and operate specialized vehicles such as boom lifts
  • Take custody of tools and equipment 

Qualifications & Work Experience

Qualifications and work experience include:

  • Diploma in Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering from a recognized institution.
  • Relevant experience
  • Class 3 driving licence

Skills

  • Be self-motivated, resourceful, positive, and organized.
  • Able to work independently. 
  • Possess strong interpersonal & communication skills. 
  • Able to communicate effectively and ability to work in and as a team.
  • Able to liaise with contractors effectively.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Key Skills
Preventive MaintenanceCorrective MaintenanceFault AttendanceSafety ComplianceTeam LeadershipInspectionCommunication SkillsInterpersonal SkillsProblem SolvingRecord KeepingDrivingTool CustodyContractor LiaisonQuality AssuranceIncident InvestigationScaffolding
Categories
EngineeringTradesConstructionTransportationSecurity & Safety
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