The buoyant shipbuilding market presents attractive opportunities for Titan Petrochemicals Group, which is anticipating a year of expansion. It is looking to recruit energetic, entrepreneurial individuals, who have experience in the shipbuilding or oil distribution logistics business, for technical and corporate managerial functions in its Singapore office.
'Our priority is recruiting employees for technical roles in storage, shipyard, trading, and bunkering, particularly those with China experience,' said Patrick Wong Siu Hung, president of corporate office and executive director at Titan Petrochemicals Group, an oil logistics company, providing end-to-end sourcing, transportation, storage and wholesale distribution.
'However, with business growth as it is, we are seeing more employees overall, so we also need to proportionately increase the headcount for corporate functions such as human resources, finance and information technology. We have new and replacement positions available.'
The company's shipyard operations are growing rapidly and it is looking for entry-level and experienced hires, including painters, technicians, fitters, welders, engineers for hull, electrical, mechanical and piping, and other positions for project planning, costing, design, quality management and safety.
Titan prefers a good mix of employees which helps encourage creative thinking. 'For example, we need design engineers to support the installation of cement units, onboard drilling rigs and the manufacture of oil fields skid mounted equipment,' Mr Wong said. 'They would also be involved in the design of large mechanical machines, such as generators and compressors, and in the layout design of equipment such as piping, hydraulics and electrical instrumentation.'
The ship building industry is experiencing a shortage of technical people with experience. The shortage is more severe on the mainland where Titan is growing rapidly.