Astek is offering a role of Network Specialist to be based in Singapore.

Important Note: This is a 4 months short term contract that is renewable. Immediate joiners or candidates with less than 1 month notice period is preferred.

This role is hiring for Junior - Senior Level.

Summary:

You will be responsible for the Network DC Setup and Operations.

Responsibility:

• Be responsible for the physical installations of Network Equipment such as Switches, Routers and Firewalls
• Demonstrate proficiency in data centre environments and systematic rack integrations.
• Oversee Vendors works to ensure proficient delivery and clean setup and meeting SLAs.
• Act as the representative of data center as needed
• Maintain Upto date documentation of DC racks, device details, cables, cross connections for faster remote support activation.
• Troubleshoot network connections in Layer 1, Layer 2 Switching and Layer 3 Routing Domains.
• Attend support calls and be available during incidents or change activities, including late hours
• Manage LAN/WAN Environments with support from Operations team.

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in managing campus networks - Switching, Routing and Firewalls
• Experienced in managing Equipment deployments to Racks and Cabling
• Experienced in DC Racks
• LAN/WAN environment
• Good communication and collaboration skills, enthusiastic personality.
• Possess a flexible mindset, responding immediately and being available during weekends or evenings when project demands arises.
• The company will arrange shifts accordingly to compensate for such availability.
• Proven experience in data centre moves and operations.

Job Highlights

• Lunch provided
• Staff discount
• In-house gym facility
• Short walking distance from Tuas Link MRT

Job Description

• Manage the end-to-end procurement process from Purchase Request (PR) sourcing and negotiating to Purchasing Order (PO) issuance from local and overseas vendors
• Evaluate vendors’ quotations to ensure compliance with technical and commercial specifications required for the organization
• Handle daily operational purchasing needs such as planning, issuing and following up on PO deliveries
• Resolve supply, quality, service and invoicing issues with vendors
• Assist the Procurement Manager with ISO Annual Performance Review for vendors
• Evaluate supplier performance based on quality standards, delivery time and best prices to ensure that all criteria are met according to the organization’s requirements
• Monitor inventory stock movement to ensure optimal inventory holdings
• Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand
• Any ad-hoc duties as assigned by Manager

Job Requirement

• Diploma / Degree in Procurement / Business Studies / Supply Chain
• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience
• Display strong analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Effective time management with ability to prioritize tasks
• A team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Entry level candidates with keen interest in procurement are welcome to apply

This position will be based in Singapore to use their specialized knowledge to maintain an efficient procurement system to supply cost effective materials and services to support the company’s operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Support the procurement function and other relevant departments and communicate any supply problems which may impact on business operations. Act as an interface between suppliers and relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects and activities.

• Maintain system integrity of supplier’s info in the ERP system, such as items suppliers connect, purchasing agreements and supplier basic data like MOQ, order multiple, purchasers responsible and supplier maintenance.

• Conduct business review meetings with key stakeholders to assess risk, review future strategies, and identify potential cost down, new programs and improvement opportunities or mitigate the risk.

• Create and review opportunities on alternative materials and or suppliers to meet the business unit objectives in procurement activities and deliver best values and business savings.

• Collaborating with our technology to understand our company needs as well as work with our existing/new suppliers to determine company strategic alignment.

• Understand the trend of raw material / feedstock related, update the information to commercial team, provide analysis on costs, new and cost savings activities. Develop strong partnership with suppliers.

• Monitor market trends, competitor strategies and market suppliers, provide analysis on costs, new and existing and review cost to achieve savings. Establish r/s with suppliers to leverage the needs in term on tight supply situation as well as to be ahead of the market requirement.

• Contribute and communicate the impact on Procurement activities to new business initiatives and projects. Involve in Global procurement project activities.

• Assess and evaluate supplier’s performance reviews, compiling data relating to supplier performance to enable evaluation.

• To audit supplier supply capability and quality standard when required. Maintain proper documentation in accordance with ISO procedures.

Job Requirements:

• Degree in Mechanical / Electrical Engineering / Material Science or other relevant discipline

• At least 3 year(s) of working experience in the related field

Specific Knowledge

• Possess very strong sourcing skills.

• Accountable team worker, proactive, problem solving and analytical abilities.

• Excellent communication skills with all levels of organization and suppliers.

• Strong interpersonal skills to work productively and collaboratively with multi-functional teams to achieve business goals.

• Candidates with good raw material commodity price trend analysis will be at advantage

Language

• Fluent in English for handling English speaking people

Your new company

Is a multinational investment bank and financial services company. They are the market leaders in investment banking, securities investment management and wealth management.

Your new role

• It involves L1 and L2 support for infra and messaging platform and applications
• Able to handle migration projects and troubleshoot enterprise level email servers
• Involves incident/problem management and L1/L2 support for their APAC messaging platform
• Support and troubleshoot MS Teams, Webex, Office365 and Exchange Online

What you'll need to succeed

• At least 5+ years with Exchange 2016, in large scale enterprise organisation
• Have technical experience Microsoft Exchange, MS Teams, Webex, Office 365
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Exchange Server
• Proven experience in change and incident management process

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, reach out to me directly at my email address ( [email protected]) with your updated CV. Referrals are always welcomed so feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might be good for this role.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

EA Reg no: R22104585

EA License Number: 07C3924 | Company Registration No: 200609504D

Job Title: Application Monitoring Specialist

Description

In this role, you will be part of the team responsible for managing and maintaining the application monitoring infrastructure across all multiple platforms (UNIX, Windows, Openshift container platform, AWS, AS400) running on Production and Development environments in Singapore and Overseas Subsidiaries.

Role:

• Provide leadership in implementation, support and management of the Enterprise Monitoring tools to meet the business requirements of the Bank.
• Ensure all critical applications and services are properly covered within the monitoring and alerting systems in a manner consistent with the Banks’ standards; collect the right metrics at the right frequency and ensure the data is readily available for effective alerting, reporting, and analysis.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of dev, ops, and architects to understand complex application architectures in order to implement an effective top-down monitoring strategy for holistic service visibility
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues with monitoring tools and ensure high availability
• Participate in strategy and future implementation discussions for the redesign and implementation of the monitoring environment to modernize with latest technology trends.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. At least 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years’ experience in similar role, ideally in a financial institution.
• Experience with Application Monitoring Tool / Geneos / Prometheus is a must.
• Experience with monitoring application's performance, availability and end-user experience to ensure the application is functioning properly in a large enterprise environment.
• Good understanding or experience in Openshift container platform is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills; good communication skills and strategic thinking
• Able to work independently on individual assignments, while collectively with a team on larger projects.
• Strong understanding of multi-tier application architectures and application runtime environments
• Familiarity with workflow management and ITSM tools such as Remedy or ServiceNow
• Good understanding of Agile (Scrum or Kanban) and implementation of same in real world along with exposure to associated tool sets (JIRA/Confluence)

A day in the life of…

• Actively support the teams in the TPM activities on the shopfloor.
• Coach the pillar leaders and members
• Promote and support cross-fertilisation of ideas, knowledge, standards and improvements
• Coordinate the support from external consultants if applicable
• Motivate & empower people through positive attitude and stimulate change in traditional mind set.
• Integration of Pillars
• Coordination with master pillar leaders and TPM coordinators
• Consistent measuring, monitoring and improvement of factory standards whilst safeguarding assets
• Ensure the implementation of the Best Practices as defined in the HPF BiC Repositories and Globe Business Excellence
• Optimise the use of systems to maintain and improve competitiveness
• Leadership of projects for improvements - Drive Factory initiatives to develop, implement and maintain sustainable improvements, cost reduction and competitiveness whilst maintaining Nestle Quality Standards
• Report & validation of project results - Monitoring the implementation of improvement intitatives within the factory, ensure that the benefits are properly measured and that the impact on production costs are clearly identified. Results are communicated to stakeholders.
• Training & methodological support - Practice and serve as a mentor to the leaders of focused improvement projects in the factory. Conducting and implementation of continuous improvement tools within the factory. Coordination of CI team activities (training, team formation, monitoring of progress, information sharing).
• Technical support for production including using industrial performance tools to ensure successful troubleshooting and debottlenecking of process flow related to equipment. Conduct on his own focused improvement projects, or coordinate and lead multi-functional teams to improve.
• Training, coaching and assessment for the factory and the local committees on GA practices
• Responsible to implement safety and environment practices in the workplace.

What will make you successful

• Bachelors’ Degree in Engineering or related fields
• 3 to 6 years of relevant working experience in a similar capacity
• Demonstrated capability to lead a group of people
• Intermediate knowledge of TPM or similar continuous improvement methodology
• Good understanding of the business needs
• Exposure to implementing continuous improvement and employee involvement techniques. Implementation experience of TPM.
• Problem solving techniques
• Change management
• Good stakeholder management and influencing skills

1.1. To handle and support all purchasing activities for HQ and regional offices, supplier management, gather quotations for internal sales colleagues and, coordinate on all import and export shipments.

1.2. To negotiate with existing vendors for better pricing, delivery lead-time and develop new supplier business relationships. Establish consignment contracts with suppliers for cost efficiency.

1.3. Generate and organize reports for authorized signatory approvals.

1.4. Perform cost-price value analysis and implement cost reduction programs with existing suppliers and consignment stock.

1.5. Purchase of consumables, equipment and spare parts etc. from local or overseas vendors.

1.6. Establish and negotiate prices and contracts with suppliers for cost effective and good quality corporate goods and services.

1.7. Liaise and follow up with suppliers for any discrepancies issue.

1.8. Coordinate all import shipments from suppliers to headquarters and overseas branch offices.

1.9. Ensure shipping document accuracy with suppliers and freight forwarders and comply with import rules and regulations.

1.10. Ensure all documents are in proper order and submit promptly for accounting and audit purposes.

1.11. Support logistics team for 3rd party out-sourcing activities.

1.12. Must include colleague from same department in all correspondence such as email to keep them informed of all ongoing status.

1.13. To be able to cover colleague from same department job if they are on leave/ absence without any issue.

1.14. Update the status of all order in the shared folder, must be up to date at any time.

1.15. Work as a team and consistently communicate with colleague on all matters.

1.16. Dropship shipment from supplier directly deliver to customer, must inform Sales OP/ Logistics in advance to prepare delivery order.

1.17. Any other tasks as assigned.

• Sheet Metal Industry, Permanent Role

• Attractive Remuneration Package

• Good Benefits and Working Environment

• Well-Established Company

• Immediate Vacancy

Job Descriptions :

• Strengthen end-to-end supply chain function to achieve cost-down targets and diversify supply risks.
• Lead the Procurement team to manage an efficient flow of goods at competitive prices to ensure optimum production, while acting as the main point of contact between suppliers and the Company.
• Source, qualify, and negotiate with vendors to achieve optimum pricing for the materials/services required by the Company.
• Evaluate spending operations and actively seek for ways to improve and enhance the quality of products purchased and the timeliness of deliveries.
• Maintain relationships with suppliers while continually scouting for additional vendors.
• Conduct cost analyses and set benchmarks for improvement.
• Developing risk management procedures to mitigate losses in the event of product shortages.
• Draft or review commercial agreements with suppliers and negotiates for favourable terms for the Company.
• Monitor and update relevant departments regarding price fluctuations of goods and vendor pricing.
• Develop scalable business processes to drive better decisions in supply chain management, such as cost management, performance metrics, supplier selection, etc.
• Interface with cross-functional stakeholders, such as Engineering, Finance, Legal, Business and Factory Operations, Planning, and Logistics, to understand the business objectives, identify the gaps in the current process, and drive solutions.
• Define key supplier performance metrics, develop data collection and reporting processes, analyze the data, and drive improvement actions.
• Analyze cost and spending data and collaborate with internal teams to analyze risk and opportunity.
• Execute strategies driven by cost analysis, resource planning, and operational capacity.
• Ensure the very highest engineering standards and processes are implemented and are aligned to global specifications, considering business-specific requirements and needs.
  

Job Requirements :

• Relevant degree in Engineering/ Business/ Supply Chain Management
• At least 8 years of experience in Procurement and purchasing.
• Prior experience/exposure in Logistics is preferred.
  

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested applicants, please send in your resume by clicking "Apply Now".

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

Chan Ngai Kuan, Elise

Dynamic Human Capital Pte Ltd

Registration number: R1548771

EA Licence No: 12C6253