Manager, Production (High Voltage)
Upscale Sdn Bhd
Simpang Ampat, Penang
Created Tue, 16 Jan 2024
Job Responsibilities:
- Develops, communicates, and implements plans consistent with organizational and business unit goals. Includes expense and capital budgeting, resource planning, goal setting, and prioritizing and managing time.
- Establishes departmental yearly/monthly objectives and take initiative to lead production team to achieve the goals and objectives.
- Creates an environment that stimulates new ideas, provides effective work direction and motivation, sets challenging work goals through personal growth, respect, trust, and empowerment of the individual.
- Provides coaching, mentoring, employee development, and team-building to employees. Trains production supervisors, trainers and line leaders to improve their management skills.
- Works cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, Production Planning, Materials, Purchasing, and other key interfaces to review, analyze, and optimize new and existing product and processes.
- Teams up with team members to improve products quality and On-Time-Delivery to meet customers’ requirements.
- Improves production efficiency and reduce lead time from order placement to finish goods delivery.
- Develops and implements structures that promote work team ownership of continuous improvement and corrective action processes.
- Facilitates continuous improvement actions in production and engineering related areas.
- Lead the team to drive Kaizen / QCC event.
- Ensure activities meet with and integrate with organizational requirements for quality management, health and safety, code of conduct, legal stipulations, environmental, 5S policies, and general duty of care
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements:
QUALIFICATIONS: • Ability to collaborate and involve others in decision-making and problem solving. • Strong leadership. • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. • Good command of English, both written and verbal • Ability to negotiate effectively and to set priorities. • Well understanding of Lean Manufacturing • Good at motivation and team building • Ability to apply specific, work-related information and observations, to promote, and to facilitate improvements to employees’ job performance. • Ability and initiative to identify, address, and resolve employee disciplinary issues. • Ability to present ideas in a clear and persuasive manner. Good command of presentation skills. • Strong working knowledge of the company performance appraisal process, as well as familiarity with applicable rules and/or regulations governing the relationship between employee and employer.
EXPERIENCE: Essential: • Prefer 8+ years of experience in Electrical/Electronics Manufacturing and Operations Management. • Understanding of Lean Manufacturing. • PC hardware and systems literacy. • Experience with a high mix/mixed volume part and product manufacturing environment preferred. • Previous supervisory experience in an Operations/Manufacturing/Repair environment required.
Desirable: • Experience in successfully managing cross-functional teams. • Experience in SMT related assembly. o Reflow process o Soldering process o Wirebonding process o Washing/potting process • Familiar with SAP ERP. • Prefer self-directed work teams experience. • Knowledge of 6 Sigma management.
EDUCATION: • Bachelor degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent combination of technical education and experience. • Master degree is preferred.