Job Title: Plant Manager
Location:
Penang, MY, 11900
Business Unit:
Haydon Kerk Pittman
Posting Date:
May 15, 2025
Job Description:
The Plant Manager is responsible for the effective and efficient use of production resources to manufacture quality products on time and in accordance with lean production standards within an environment focused on continuous improvement.
What you will do:
- Support new plant renovation and fit out phase to make sure new plant suitable for manufacturing within defined timeline.
- Build strong operations team to complete production transfer plan.
- Organize operations team to support ERP implementation (Navision).
- Plan, guide and direct the total operations of manufacturing facility to achieve manufacturing objectives for growth, profitability, quality, on-time performance, inventory management, safety, lean manufacturing, and customer satisfaction.
- Support sales growth for both customer specific opportunities and as defined in the strategic plan.
- Initiate plans and processes that minimize manufacturing costs through the effective use of resources including manpower, equipment, facilities, materials, and capital.
- Provide leadership and deliver execution on strategic KPIs and Operational Excellence (OPEX) savings
- Provide leadership in formulating and establishing site policies operating procedures and goals in accordance with requirements of corporate business guidelines and the expectations of overall customer base.
- Establish challenging targets for site performance and enact contingency plans to support and ensure customer requirements are met and business relationships sustained.
- Drive Operational Excellence through maintaining and continuously improving an efficient level of site performance for SQCDM.
- Improve profitability of products through recommendations and management of facility & cost improvements as well as productivity enhancement initiatives.
- Develop and provide leadership to a team of highly effective staff managers to achieve continued profitability and operational improvements. Leverage performance metrics such as balanced scorecard, Annual Operating Plan and PMP to drive accountability to the appropriate levels of the organization.
- Continually improve safety record by addressing both physical safety issues and employee safety attitudes. Maintain and improve housekeeping in all areas.
- Create a healthy workplace to ensure employee engagement, people development and organization effectiveness.
We are looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering
- More than10 years solid experience as a Plant Manager
- Lean and 6 Sigma knowledge,
- Fluent English, both spoken and written.
- Ability to work in a highly productive, constantly changing environment
- ERP experience.
- Demonstrated success in implementing Lean methodology for continuous improvement.
- Knowledge of Six Sigma methodology preferred.
- Good communication skills for interaction with all departments both inside and outside of the company.
- Analytic mindset and good at planning, can- do attitude under pressure.
- Good interpersonal skill and leadership.
- Set up new plant experience is a plus
- New product introduction experience
- Basic finance skills