Operations Director

Celestica; Penang; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

The Manager of Portfolio Manufacturing Risk & Technical Task Force at Celestica leads cross-functional efforts to oversee manufacturing risks across all active hardware programs. This role owns the central Manufacturing Risk Dashboard, driving standardization and macro improvements to protect high-volume production milestones.

Primary emphasis is on identifying systemic risk patterns, triggering enterprise-wide initiatives, and mobilizing task forces to resolve critical excursions before they

Qualifications

• 6+ years of specialized experience in high-tech electronic manufacturing, operations data science, or NPI systems management.
• Experience tracking cross-program portfolios and metrics.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional influence in engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Dashboard Ownership: Architect, own, and maintain the master Manufacturing Risk Dashboard for real-time risk visibility across portfolios.
• Systemic Similarity Analysis: Identify cross-program similarities and recurring risk patterns.
• Predictive Metric Tracking: Monitor NUDD vectors, CFQ/CTQ trends to spot blind spots before prototyping.
• Process Standardization: Synthesize risk lessons into enterprise-wide standards and controls.
• Macro Project Triggering: Initiate structural improvements when recurring risk patterns appear.
• Lessons-Learned Loop: Feed post-mortems back into co-development frameworks.
• Task Force Mobilization: Trigger and assemble cross-functional teams for high-urgency risks.
• Crisis Command Coordination: Oversee crisis teams and track milestones in automated systems.
• Structured Containment: Enforce macro containment directives across portfolios.
• Front-End Matrix Interfacing: Audit SMT variables and reflow trends with Front-End leadership.
• Back-End Assembly Alignment: Assess robotic cell defects and cooling loop integration issues.
• Test Infrastructure Interfacing: Align test scripts to neutralize escape risks identified by dashboards.

Skills

Dashboard fluency

pFMEA mastery

Leadership presence

Education

Industrial/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Jira

Tableau

PowerBI

Jira Query Language

Manufacturing databases

Job description

Remote Position: No

Region: Asia

Country: Malaysia

State/Province: Bayan Lepas

City: Penang

Summary

The Manager of Portfolio Manufacturing Risk & Technical Task Force is a strategic, cross-functional leadership position responsible for overseeing the full manufacturing risks across all active hardware programs, projects, and products. Rather than focusing on a single customer or dedicated product line, this leader operates as the central Manufacturing Risk Dashboard Owner, possessing an absolute, bird-eye view of the entire operational portfolio. The primary mission is to spot cross-program similarities, detect systemic patterns of risk, and establish comprehensive manufacturing standardization. Operating with broad systemic authority, this role is responsible for triggering macro-level process improvement projects and mobilizing technical Task Forces to intercept and resolve critical manufacturing or process excursions before they threaten high-volume production milestones.

Detailed Description

1. Portfolio Risk Dashboards & Pattern Recognition

• Dashboard Ownership: Architect, own, and maintain the master Manufacturing Risk Dashboard, providing corporate and operational leadership with real-time visibility into active risk thresholdsacross all program portfolios.

• Systemic Similarity Analysis: Analyze cross-program manufacturing variables to identify similarities, parallel failure modes, and recurring risk behaviors across distinct customer pipelines and product typologies.

• Predictive Metric Tracking: Aggregately track NUDD (New, Unique, Different, Difficult) vectors, golden pFMEAs, and Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) trends to identify systemic engineering blind spotsbefore physical prototyping commences.

1. Standardization & Macro Project Inception

• Process Standardization: Synthesize localized risk lessons into enterprise-wide manufacturing standards, ensuring uniform pFMEA controls, custom assembly rules, and test coverage parameters are mandated across all production networks.

• Macro Project Triggering: Initiate and champion wide-scale, structural process improvement or tooling optimization projects when dashboard data indicates a recurring risk pattern across multipleindependent product lines.

• Lessons-Learned Loop: Ensure post-mortem analysis data is standardly infused back into early co-development frameworks run by Front-End, Back-End, and Test engineering teams.

1. Task Force Activation & Emergency Escalation

• Task Force Mobilization: Serve as the executive authority to instantly trigger and assemble high-urgency, cross-functional engineering Task Forces when critical, cross-cutting manufacturing risksbreach dashboard thresholds.

• Crisis Command Coordination: Provide high-level oversight to active crisis teams, tracking micro-milestones and resolution trajectories in automated systems (e.g., Jira) without getting boggeddown in single-account administration.

• Structured Containment: Enforce strict macro containment directives, including cross-portfolio material purges or floor alerts if a localized component anomaly poses an exposure risk to parallelprograms.

1. Cross-Functional Engineering Orchestration

• Front-End Matrix Interfacing: Partner with the Front-End Senior Manager to audit portfolio-wide SMT assembly variables, tracking recurring large-form-factor BGA warpage and reflow optimization trends.

• Back-End Assembly Alignment: Collaborate with the Back-End Senior Manager to assess systemic robotic cell defects, torque assembly constraints, and common rack-level cooling loop integration pain points.

• Test Infrastructure Interfacing: Engage with the Test Senior Manager to ensure portfolio-wide test diagnostic scripts (ICT/FCT/SLT) adapt to neutralize escape risks identified via dashboard tracking.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Analytical & Dashboard Fluency: Advanced proficiency designing or managing complex engineering metrics dashboards (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Jira Query Language, or parallel automatedmanufacturing databases) to isolate systemic similarities and defect correlations.

• Methodological Mastery : Deep foundational expertise in pFMEA structures, NUDD risk analysis frameworks, CTQ parameters, statistical process control (SPC), and structured crisis problem-solving methodologies (8D, Shainin, Kepner-Tregoe).

• Influence & Leadership Presence : Exceptional cross-functional communication and authority; proven ability to command cross-functional engineering cells, trigger corporate capitalexpenditure/standardization projects, and articulate macro operational exposures to executive leadership boards.

Physical Demands

• Incumbent will perform the duties of this position in a normal office environment.

• Duties may require periodic sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.

• May require occasional travel.

Typical Experience

• Manufacturing Portfolio Experience : 6+ years of specialized experience in high-tech electronic manufacturing, operations data science, or NPI systems management, with a clear history oftracking multi-program portfolios rather than isolated lines.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quality Operations, or a related system-focused discipline.

• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica, Inc. (NYSE: CLS; TSX: CLS) is a technology leader dedicated to driving customer success and market advancements. With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. With a talented team and a strategic global network, Celestica helps its customers achieve competitive advantages.

Today, Celestica delivers innovative supply chain solutions globally to customers in strategic two operating and reporting segments: Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) and Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CC):

ATS:

This segment serves customers in complex, regulated and high-reliability markets such as Industrial & Smart Energy, Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductor Capital Equipment, and HealthTech. It is engineering led, with deep expertise in design, manufacturing and lifecycle solutions.

CCS:

This segment focuses on high-performance technology solutions and services for the data center, serving hyperscalers, digital native customers and enterprises. Celestica's Platform Solutions offering provides innovative and customizable computing, storage and networking solutions enabling AI-driven growth.

Built on a legacy of trust and performance, Celestica has earned its reputation by delivering results in complex and fast-changing markets. Celestica exceeds customer expectations by identifying trends and staying ahead of the curve. Backed by comprehensive capabilities and a global network across North America, Europe and Asia, Celestica helps customers gain competitive advantage with the quality, flexibility and resiliency they need to respond quickly to shifts in demand. Guided by a bold vision to accelerate market advancements, Celestica delivers innovative solutions and technologies that turn complexity into opportunity. Anchored in teamwork and commitment, Celestica strives to be the most trusted partner to its customers and colleagues worldwide.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.