Regional Technical Director – Manufacturing Excellence

Samtec; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 240,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Samtec in Malaysia seeks a Regional Technical Manager to integrate technical and sustaining engineering across Asia regional manufacturing facilities. You will lead regional teams to improve operations, drive continuous improvement, and scale manufacturing with strong partnerships across Engineering, Manufacturing, NPI/NR, Supply Chain and Quality.

You will oversee TPM, automation roadmaps, and asset reliability, setting KPIs and safety standards while coordinating capital plans and training

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or related field is required.
• Masters in Engineering, MBA, or advanced degree is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Interface with Operations, Engineering, and Sales to develop and implement technical strategies and goals.
• Provide regional technical strategy and objectives to carry out the Samtec service model.
• Establish and oversee technical KPIs for regional facilities performance (quality, compliance).
• Perform regular technical risk assessments across regional facilities to mitigate risks to performance and quality.
• Lead regional TPM strategy deployment and related systems, processes.
• Define and track KPIs for equipment reliability (MTBF, MTTR, maintenance cost).
• Establish standards for autonomous and planned maintenance and early equipment management.
• Build regional TPM capability through audits and cross-site knowledge sharing.
• Lead sustaining manufacturing engineering to optimize processes and standardize scale-up.
• Drive automation roadmaps to reduce manual operations and lower unit costs.
• Identify cost reduction and quality improvement projects using Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, FMEA, and DOE.
• Collaborate on capital expenditure strategies and resource rebalancing for regional scalability.
• Develop and maintain technical training curriculum for frontline support and sustaining engineering leadership.
• Establish a regional framework for associate growth, performance management, and succession planning.
• Support apprenticeship and co-op programs as needed.
• Collaborate with corporate and regional leadership on future technical needs for scalability.
• Conduct periodic trips to corporate and facilities and provide action plans to stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or related field

Masters in Engineering, MBA, or advanced degree

Job description

Samtec in Malaysia seeks a Regional Technical Manager to integrate technical and sustaining engineering across Asia regional manufacturing facilities. You will lead regional teams to improve operations, drive continuous improvement, and scale manufacturing with strong partnerships across Engineering, Manufacturing, NPI/NR, Supply Chain and Quality.

You will oversee TPM, automation roadmaps, and asset reliability, setting KPIs and safety standards while coordinating capital plans and training