Production Manager

SCHOTT; Seberang Perai; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SCHOTT in Penang, Malaysia seeks an experienced Plant Manager to provide leadership for production and engineering teams. You will drive KPI achievement, cost efficiency, quality, and on-time delivery while optimizing manpower and equipment across multiple projects.

The role requires a Bachelor degree in Engineering or manufacturing with 10+ years in manufacturing, strong leadership, lean/six sigma expertise, and solid communication skills. ISO compliance and a safety-first mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Manufacturing or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years related working experience in manufacturing.
• Demonstrated strong leadership in leading and coaching teams.
• Understanding of health and safety, operational management, Lean, SAP, Six Sigma and ISO.
• Excellent communication, numeracy and computer literacy skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and manage a group of production employees including engineering to achieve KPI.
• Collaborate with functional teams to meet production output, cost, quality, on-time delivery and workforce needs.
• Oversee budgets, plans and programs to optimize equipment, space and labor utilization.
• Drive process optimization and reduce manufacturing costs through lean strategies.
• Develop and motivate subordinates through training and coaching.
• Plan to improve work environment and monitor operating results.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Lean Manufacturing

SAP

Six Sigma

ISO

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing or equivalent

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

MS Office

Job description

• Provide overall leadership and manage a group of production employees including engineering team to achieve company goals and department KPI.
• Work with functional teams to achieve common goals in terms of production output, cost, quality, on time delivery and work force requirements.
• Supervise and oversee budgets, plans and programs to ensure the optimum utilisation of available equipment, space and labour force to attain plant-manufacturing objectives.
• Optimization of processes and reduce manufacturing operations costs through innovative strategies.
• Assure achievement of management and manufacturing objective through the proper selection, development, training and motivation of subordinates.
• Continuously plan to improve work environment, methods, effectiveness & resource utilization, and critically review and monitor operating results.
• Responsible for implementing cost improvement programs through Lean Manufacturing techniques and drive successful business excellence programs for manufacturing.
• Maintain operational excellence by executing TPM and 5S activities and implement/monitor Lean activities and mind-set.
• Adhering to Corporate EHS guidelines, local EHS legislations and promoting accident free workplace.
• Models optimum leadership competencies to inspire an energized, empowered and accountable team, ethical behaviour and actualization of the SCHOTT core values
• Responsible to plan and manage the workload of the engineers across concurrent projects to ensure that all project objectives are met in a timely manner with high standards.
• Ensure that all required reports, engineering and other documentation are completed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for creating, modifying and revising manufacturing work instructions and process flow documentation.
• Any other work/project assigned to you by your superior(s) from time to time.

Your Profile:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years related working experience in the manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skill in leading and coaching a team of employees.
• An understanding of the health and safety aspects of a manufacturing environment, operational management, Lean and SAP, Six Sigma and ISO methodology, Engineering background
• Excellent communication, numeracy and computer literacy skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Being able to develop good working relationships and trust with various teams.