Plant Operations Leader — Plastic Injection Molding

APM Corporate Services; Selangor; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Yearly Increments

Yearly Performance Bonus

Comprehensive Medical Benefits

Meal Subsidy & Transport Allowance

Work-Life Balance

Career Growth

Job summary

Jora Malaysia is seeking an experienced senior operations leader to provide strategic direction for plastic injection moulding operations, ensuring production, quality, cost, delivery, safety, and productivity targets are met while driving continuous improvement, operational excellence, and sustainable business growth.

The role requires leadership of manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, and quality teams, capacity planning, capital investment, new product launches, and deployment of lean

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management or related discipline.
• Professional qualifications in Operations Management, Manufacturing, or Business Administration are advantageous.
• Experience with Quality Management, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma or Occupational Safety and Health is advantageous.
• Minimum 10–15 years of relevant experience in manufacturing operations, preferably automotive.
• Hands-on experience in plastic injection moulding manufacturing operations.
• Experience in plant expansion, equipment investment and manpower planning.
• Experience implementing IATF 16949, ISO 9001 and automotive core tools is highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and direction for manufacturing and plant operations to achieve targets.
• Develop and implement operational strategies, business plans, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Oversee daily production activities ensuring schedules, quality, and cost targets are met.
• Ensure effective utilisation, maintenance of production machinery, moulds, tooling, and fixtures.
• Monitor and control manufacturing costs, scrap, downtime, and overtime.
• Ensure compliance with customer requirements, quality standards and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in productivity, process efficiency, quality, and waste reduction.
• Lead capacity planning, plant expansion, equipment investment, and manpower planning.
• Oversee launch of new products including process development, tooling, and production readiness.
• Establish and monitor operational KPIs and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma

Quality Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Jora Malaysia is seeking an experienced senior operations leader to provide strategic direction for plastic injection moulding operations, ensuring production, quality, cost, delivery, safety, and productivity targets are met while driving continuous improvement, operational excellence, and sustainable business growth.

The role requires leadership of manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, and quality teams, capacity planning, capital investment, new product launches, and deployment of lean