Job Title
Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics
Company
PETRONAS
Speaker Bio
Suhaizal has been with PETRONAS for the past 15 years. He started his career as a rotating engineer in one of PETRONAS Chemical Group (PCG) facilities in Gebeng and spent many years in PCG taking on various roles as Maintenance Engineer, Planner, WP leader, Project Manager and Rotating Equipment Inspection (REI) Leader, covering turbomachinery such as Gas Turbine, Turbo Expander, Compressors and pumps. His responsibilities encompass the end-to-end cycle equipment health from monitoring, troubleshooting, diagnostic, spare part management, predictive maintenance and proactive maintenance. In addition, he is also a certified MLA (Machinery Lubrication Analyst) Level 1 and MDS (Machinery Diagnostic System) Certified.
Pursuing this deep passion, he is also in charge of Condition Based Monitoring Team in implementing and establishing equipment predictive maintenance strategy, proactive maintenance strategy, pump switching program and Vibration Analysis Program within PCMTBE. Further to his deep involvement in the subjects, he then appointed as the Trade Group Leader for Rotating Equipment Inspection for PETRONAS. The trade group main objectives are ensuring the capabilities development, career progression, learning module and operationalization of REI strategy within REI non-Executives throughout PETRONAS groupwide.
Among his achievement highlights, he successfully led a project to increase plant production by 20% and managed to make a cost savings of up to 35% compared to the initial project estimate. On another account, he managed to establish Rotating Equipment Master Service Agreement (MSA) for the usage of PETRONAS groupwide which impacted significant cost saving and optimizations.
In the late 2019, he made a leap to the corporate function by joining the Downstream Digital team. Suhaizal was assigned as one of the project leads in shaping, steering and accelerating multiple digital analytics within the business i.e. from pilot to scale via agile methodology.
He is currently holding the position as the Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics, responsible to establish the Digital Transformation Strategy for Downstream Manufacturing Plant. Suhaizal holds a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Malaya.
Suhaizal B Ismail