Operator 1 Manufacturing

Western Digital Corporation; Kuching; On-site; MYR 20,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Digital Corporation in Sarawak, Malaysia, is seeking a shift operator to support the plating and manufacturing process. You will perform loading, line monitoring, and routine quality checks while maintaining clean, safe work environments and accurate shift handovers.

The role requires 12-hour shifts, basic English and Malay, and adherence to safety and environmental standards. Join WD to contribute to high-volume data storage production in a global tech company.

Qualifications

• Candidate minimum education SPM or equivalent certificate; related experience acceptable.
• Minimum age 18 years old.
• Willing to work on a 12 hour shift.

Responsibilities

• Load disks into mandrel and push loaded racks to plating lines.
• Fill up loading and startup checklists; maintain clean work area.
• Perform routine lab sampling and ensure process control (temperature, pH, RPM).
• Maintain proper binning, containment, and pass downs between shifts.
• Ensure safe and compliant operation to prevent environmental incidents.

Skills

Basic English

Basic Malay

Safety compliance

Housekeeping

Education

SPM / equivalent certificate

Job description

• Job Type (exemption status): Non-Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Business Function: Manufacturing
• Work Location: Sarawak Kuching Office--LOC_HGST_MYS1

Company Description

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy.

As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in.

We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide.

This isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.

We’re looking for people who want to build, solve, and operate at that level.

Join us and let’s shape the future of data.

Job Description

As the focal point for shift activities, the operator ensures effective communication through timely responses, constructive feedback, and thorough handovers to the next or regular shift.

Additionally, they are responsible for executing assigned tasks to maintain product quality and prevent environmental pollution, workplace incidents, injuries, and ill health.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Regular :
• Loading disks into mandrel
• Push the loaded rack to Plating line
• Fill up loading checklist and loader startup checklist
• Maintain good housekeeping at work area
• Do routine lab sampling and resample for any out of control parameter
• Do Plating line pretreatment make up and strip line make up
• Fill up lab routine checklist
• Maintain good housekeeping inside work area
• Do process control and line monitoring such as temperature, pH, RPM and anodic
• Doing process basic troubleshooting
• Change Nickel tote, pump in PNS, do Nickel tank rinsing and recovery
• Measure Nickel thickness and fill up Process checklist
• Maintain good housekeeping at Plating BOL and Plating FOL
• Pull rack with disks from St.29 and push to unloader machine
• Push wet carts from filling station to St.29
• Unload disk from rack mandrel to annealing cassette
• Fill up unloader machine startup checklist
• Maintain good housekeeping at work area
• Perform visual inspection as per procedure.
• Trigger for containment and disposition as per required.
• Trigger for troubleshooting and provide related info.
• Perform correct binning transaction and able to hold containment lot as well.
• Provide a proper pass down to incoming and outgoing shift.
• To perform the health check
• To perform the startup checklist every shift
• To do reject at source
• To perform manufacturing system transaction correctly
• To pull the lot from the stagging with lot traveler
• To group the parts follow SOP
• To highlight any issue or mix product triggering
• Auto merger
• Perform the startup checklist
• To transfer the alternative part for production to consume
• To ensure to transfer the part by product to avoid mix
• To clear the bag and keep the area clean after complete transfer
• To do real time binning and real time reject in system

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• Candidate minimum education SPM or any equivalent certificate or related experience
• Minimum age 18 years old

PREFERRED:

• Willing to work on a 12 hour shift

SKILLS

• Capable to read basic English & Malay Language
• Comply with applicable environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, company policy and accepted safe work practices.

Additional Information

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