Facility Manager

About the role

The Facility Manager is responsible for leading facility infrastructure, utilities, maintenance, asset reliability, and expansion readiness to ensure operational continuity and support sustainable business growth. The role serves as the site's focal point for facility capacity planning, utility reliability, maintenance governance, and asset management while ensuring infrastructure and manufacturing assets remain capable of supporting current operations and future expansion requirements. This position plays a critical role in protecting operational uptime, maximizing asset utilization, supporting business expansion, and ensuring facility infrastructure does not become a constraint to growth.

Key responsibilities

• Lead facility infrastructure, utilities, maintenance, and asset reliability activities across the site
• Manage technicians, contractors, and external service providers
• Partner closely with Production, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, HR, Finance functions
• Support machine installation, facility expansion, and manufacturing growth initiatives
• Serve as the primary liaison with utility providers, equipment suppliers, contractors, consultants, and external service providers
• Develop and maintain facility infrastructure plans aligned with business growth requirements
• Assess and manage electrical loading, compressed air systems, HVAC, water systems, and supporting utilities
• Establish and continuously improve preventive and predictive maintenance programs
• Lead facility readiness activities for machine installation and manufacturing expansion projects
• Drive maintenance excellence and asset utilization improvement initiatives

About you

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Facilities Management, or related discipline
• Minimum 8 years of experience in facilities management, maintenance, manufacturing engineering, or industrial operations
• Strong knowledge of electrical systems, compressed air systems, HVAC, utilities, and industrial infrastructure
• Experience supporting manufacturing expansion, machine installation, and facility upgrade projects
• Knowledge of TPM, Reliability Engineering, Preventive Maintenance, and Continuous Improvement methodologies
• Strong project management, contractor management, and stakeholder management capability
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication in Bahasa Malaysia and English
• Chargeman certification preferred or required based on facility electrical requirements
• Working knowledge of IATF 16949 requirements related to infrastructure management, maintenance systems, contingency planning, risk management, and equipment reliability