Head, Global Engineering

About Us

SD Guthrie Berhad (SD Guthrie) is one of the world’s leading producers of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO), representing approximately 12% of the global market share (as of 31 December 2022). With over 84,000 employees across 12 countries, we pride ourselves on innovation, sustainability, and excellence. Our operations span the entire palm oil value chain, and we are expanding into new business verticals such as green industrial parks and renewable energy. We offer enriching career opportunities supported by cutting-edge technology and a commitment to sustainability. We are the world’s first palm oil company to have our net-zero GHG emissions reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

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Your Mission

• To provide enterprise-wide leadership and strategic coordination of engineering initiatives across the Group, ensuring that engineering programmes, capital projects and technology deployments are prioritised, governed and delivered in a manner that maximises operational synergy, optimises investment efficiency and accelerates the Group's transformation agenda.
• The role serves as the central point of oversight for major engineering initiatives across business units, enabling alignment of engineering standards, sharing of best practices, optimisation of resources and delivery of sustainable business value.

Key Responsibilities

1. Enterprise Engineering Strategy & Integration

• Develop and drive the Group-wide engineering roadmap aligned to business priorities and transformation objectives.
• Identify opportunities to integrate engineering initiatives across businesses to maximise synergy, eliminate duplication and enhance enterprise value.
• Ensure engineering investments support long-term strategic growth, operational excellence and sustainability ambitions.

2. Portfolio Governance & Delivery Oversight

• Establish and oversee a Group engineering portfolio management framework covering major engineering projects and programmes.
• Monitor progress, risks, dependencies and performance of critical engineering initiatives across business units.
• Escalate key issues and recommend interventions to ensure successful delivery against agreed outcomes, timelines and budgets.

3. Engineering Investment Optimisation

• Facilitate enterprise-wide prioritisation and sequencing of engineering projects to optimise capital allocation and resource utilisation.
• Drive value engineering principles to improve cost effectiveness without compromising safety, quality or operational performance.
• Assess opportunities for shared services, common platforms and economies of scale across the Group.

4. Engineering Standards & Best Practice Leadership

• Champion the development and adoption of engineering standards, frameworks and methodologies to enhance consistency and execution excellence.
• Promote the sharing of engineering expertise, lessons learnt and innovative practices across businesses.
• Benchmark Group engineering practices against industry leaders to continuously improve organisational capability.

5. Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Act as the strategic interface between Group leadership and business unit engineering teams to drive alignment and collaboration.
• Build strong partnerships with operational leaders, project sponsors and functional experts to ensure enterprise-wide commitment to engineering priorities.
• Influence decision-making through data-driven insights and recommendations.

6. Capability Building & Future Readiness

• Identify emerging engineering trends, technologies and capabilities relevant to the Group's strategic ambitions.
• Support the development of engineering leadership capability across the organisation.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration within the engineering community.

7. Performance Reporting & Governance

• Establish key performance indicators and reporting mechanisms for Group engineering initiatives.
• Provide regular updates to the Chief Transformation Officer and relevant governance forums on project performance, portfolio health and strategic risks.
• Ensure transparency, accountability and effective governance of engineering investments across the Group.

Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from a recognised university.
• Professional Engineering certification or registration with a recognised engineering body is preferred.
• Postgraduate qualification in Engineering Management, Business Administration or related disciplines will be an added advantage.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including direct responsibility for delivering large-scale, complex engineering initiatives.
• Extensive experience leading and executing multi-disciplinary engineering programmes across large-scale organisations operating in diverse international locations.
• Proven track record in managing significant engineering portfolios involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Experience in sectors such as industrial operations, manufacturing, energy, agribusiness, infrastructure or other asset-intensive industries would be advantageous.
• Exposure to enterprise transformation initiatives, capital project governance and organisational change management is highly desirable.

Why Join Us?

• Flexible Benefits Coverage
• Hybrid Workplace
• Learning on Demand
• Employee Wellness Programme
• Employee Engagement Activities
• Fully Subsidised Sports Clubs
• Education Assistance (terms & conditions apply)
• Free Parking
• Free Shuttle Service from nearest LRT
• and many more...

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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