Chief Engineering & Strategy Leader

Kawan Food Manufacturing Sdn Bhd; Selangor; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Gym facilities

Parking

Hospitalization insurance

Group personal accident

Job summary

Kawan Food Berhad in Malaysia seeks an experienced Engineering Leader to drive the engineering function, set strategy, and build a high-performance team. You will guide policy, process, and KPI-driven improvements across all sites, ensuring EHS, quality and cost targets are met.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to optimize contracts, manage budgets and deliver value through strategic engineering initiatives, with a focus on sustainable practices and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and management capabilities.
• Experience optimizing teams and processes for performance and cost reductions.
• Excellent relationship management and stakeholder negotiation skills.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing abilities.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for Engineering activities across the business
• Create and implement best practice engineering vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve business performance
• Ensure that engineering strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of price, quality and delivery targets and which enables the company to function and compete effectively in the market
• Take ownership of the engineering policy, guidelines and any associated documents
• Initiate and develop creative and innovative engineering processes
• Providing technical support to the business development, estimating and onsite engineering teams
• Overseeing all aspects of build design, from contract award to handover
• Support project management to cross functional activity required for project execution
• Working closely with Purchasing Head to ensure all external contracts are regularly reviewed to ensure best value
• Report on Engineering activities on a regular basis to the Senior Management team, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of the relevant Key Performance Indicators
• Ensure that Environmental, Health and Safety, engineering and quality standards and procedures are adhered to
• Provide leadership to departments under control and coach, mentor and develop direct reports and manage a high performing team that delivers continuous improvement, added value and cost reductions
• Set department KPI and monitor ongoing progress and performance
• Ensure strong communication between teams under leadership to facilitate exchange of information and in order to implement change and improvements
• Establish strategy and best practices for staff to ensure achievement of overall business objectives. Work with the Engineering team to translate site strategy into specific annual performance goals and departmental objectives, including KPIs, and to track them Financial Budget and Control
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance
• Work collaboratively, negotiate and engage with key stakeholders to facilitate delivery and compliance with the engineering strategy
• Review environmental strategies that impact on future ways of operating and ensure implementation where possible
• Review the use of technological systems that support a more environmentally friendly approach
• Ensure environmental audits for engineering activities are carried out
• Review opportunities to be as environmentally friendly as possible

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Engineering strategy

Cross-functional

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Job description

Kawan Food Berhad in Malaysia seeks an experienced Engineering Leader to drive the engineering function, set strategy, and build a high-performance team. You will guide policy, process, and KPI-driven improvements across all sites, ensuring EHS, quality and cost targets are met.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to optimize contracts, manage budgets and deliver value through strategic engineering initiatives, with a focus on sustainable practices and operational excellence.