Maintenance Supervisor

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd.; Seberang Perai; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd. is seeking a Maintenance Supervisor for a global manufacturing client in Penang, Malaysia. You will lead maintenance data analysis, drive reliability programs, and guide a team of technicians to keep equipment available and compliant.

You will coordinate with engineering and EHS to implement preventive maintenance, safety improvements, and cost‑reduction initiatives, leveraging AutoCAD and PLC knowledge in a fast‑paced factory environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in mechanical, automation control, or engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience maintaining and managing equipment in large factories.
• Solid knowledge of mechanics or electronics.
• Familiar with Office, AutoCAD and PLC programming.
• Ability to interpret English materials for production equipment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze maintenance data weekly and develop improvement plans to reduce failures.
• Handle major equipment failures and assist with modifications for new products.
• Establish technician on‑job training programs and assess performance.
• Assign tasks to subordinates to ensure timely completion.
• Conduct assessments to strengthen mechanical, electrical, PLC, and safety skills.
• Participate in equipment risk inspections and design safety devices with EHS.
• Plan and manage equipment improvement projects to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
• Assist in formulating safety and department policies and procedures.

Skills

PLC programming

English materials interpretation

Mechanical knowledge

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in mechanical, automation control, or engineering fields

Tools

AutoCAD

Office Suite

Job description

We are global talent research, insight and pipelining specialists with offices in the UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Dubai, and India. Our international reach has helped us to understand and penetrate specialist markets at a global level. In addition to this, our service is also extended to complement our client’s in-house research.

About our client

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

As a Maintenance Supervisor, you will be responsible for...

Daily Task & Activities

• Analyzing maintenance data weekly and developing improvement plans to reduce equipment failure rates and ensure smooth production; creating or revising equipment maintenance management procedures and monitoring the implementation of maintenance schedules.
• Handling major equipment failures, improving equipment safety, and assisting ME with equipment modifications and fixture improvements for new product development.

Technician Management and Development

• Establishing technician on‑job training programs and skill matricies, conducting assessments and evaluations, motivating subordinates, and managing employee conflicts and relationships within the team and across departments.
• Assigning tasks to subordinates reasonably to ensure effective completion of the team's work.
• Conducting assessments to strengthen mechanical, electrical, PLC, and safe‑working capabilities.

EHS

• Participating in or organizing equipment risk inspections, collaborating with EHS to design and install safety protective devices, and improving the equipment operating environment to ensure safe equipment operation.

Project Improvement

• Using the client’s tool to organize and plan equipment improvement projects, and executing, monitoring, and managing improvement activities to reduce equipment costs and improve efficiency.
• Implementing equipment criticality classification, preventive maintenance, inspections, maintenance history tracking, spare‑parts control, vendor management, and downtime tracking to evaluate performance.

Department Policies and Procedures

• Assisting in formulating company safety and other related policies and systems, and organizing and implementing the policies, systems, and plans developed by the company and the department to ensure compliance with company policies and processes.

What you already have...

• Bachelors or above, major in mechanical, automation control, or Engineering related fields;
• Minimum 5 years of experience in maintaining and managing equipment in large factories;
• Solid theoretical knowledge of mechanics or electronics;
• Ability to improve equipment;
• Ability to manage equipment systematically;
• Familiar with commonly used software like Office, AutoCAD, and PLC programming;
• Able to intepret English materials for production equipment.