Industrial Engineering Functional Manager

Jabil; Seberang Perai; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jabil in Malaysia is seeking an Industrial Engineering Manager to lead the planning, design, and execution of integrated production and service delivery systems. The role emphasizes profitability, quality, and continuous improvement across life cycles.

The manager will guide a team of engineers, drive site performance metrics, and ensure Lean practices and standardization of processes and systems such as SAP and MES.

Qualifications

• Degree in Industrial Engineering or Production Engineering.
• MS in Industrial Engineering or MBA preferred.
• Lean Silver Certificate or Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish and clearly communicate global and regional IE strategies.
• Coach, mentor and train engineers in IE Department.
• Recruit and retain IE talent within the site.
• Report and drive improvement through site metrics.
• Develop and maintain site IE succession plan.
• Ensure standardization of Jabil processes across the site.
• Standardize system configurations (e.g., SAP, MES, IEDB).
• Develop and maintain site process flow charts.
• Forecast department workload from historical and forecast data.
• Support Lean by building robust processes and data integrity.

Skills

Leadership & People Mgmt

Strategic Planning

Lean/Six Sigma

SAP/MES familiarity

Data analysis (Excel/Visio/Project)

Education

Degree in Industrial Engineering/Production Engineering

MS in Industrial Engineering or MBA

Lean Silver Certificate or Six Sigma Black Belt

Tools

SAP

MES

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office (Excel/Word/PowerPoint)

Job description

Industrial Engineering Manager (Functional Manager) will be responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and managing integrated productions and service delivery systems that assure performance, reliability, maintainability, schedule adherence and cost control within the production site. The Industrial Engineering Manager will adopt as its goals profitability, effectiveness, adaptability, responsiveness, quality, and the continuous improvement of products and services throughout their life cycles.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and clearly communicate all global and regional Industrial Engineering strategies to the Industrial Engineering Department
• Coach, mentor and train all engineers with the Industrial Engineering Department
• Recruit and retain Industrial Engineering talent within the site
• Report and drive improvement within the site through the monitoring of the key Industrial Engineering metrics
• Develop and maintain the Industrial Engineering succession plan for the site
• Insure the standardization of Jabil processes throughout the site in accordance with the global and regional direction
• Standardize the configuration of the systems used (e.g. SAP, MES, IEDB)
• Develop and maintain site key process flow charts
• Develop, analyze and maintain accurate department forecast based on both historical and forecast data
• Support the Lean organization by developing a solid process foundation and data integrity in order to support process improvement through the organization

Requirements

• Degree in Industrial Engineering or Production Engineering
• Preferably Managers specializing in Engineering - Industrial or equivalent
• MS in Industrial Engineering or MBA preferred
• Lean Silver Certificate or Six Sigma Black Belt preferred
• Minimum 12–15 years of Industrial Engineering experience in a contract manufacturing environment
• Minimum 5–8 years of management experience within a contract manufacturing environment
• Production capacity planning and analysis
• Manufacturing processes from SMT to FATP
• Facility planning and production layout design (including material flow and space utilization)
• Work measurement (cycle time, standard time, SOE, motion study, and line balancing)
• Proficiency in using of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint), Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, and e-mail skills required