Manufacturing Operations Manager (Contract)

• Manages and leads a team of technicians overseeing operations, equipment maintenance, and repair in manufacturing facilities.
• Owns safety, quality, scheduling, and conflict resolution amongst staff and other stakeholders and assists in resolving operational, safety, and security issues.
• Oversees flow of work through factories and streamlining processes and operations between groups and divisions.
• Establishes tactical plans to ensure production schedules are met within established quality and cost objectives.
• Ensures optimum total area performance in terms of safety, quality, output, and cost through staffing training development and retention of the group.
• Understands scheduled and unscheduled equipment maintenance, repair, recovery, troubleshooting, tool quality, and tool run rate.
• Assumes direct ownership and acts as the first responder of all on-shift issues within assigned toolset or area.
• Works with engineering teams to solve problems impacting factory operations/health.
• Ensures effective employee staffing including workstation assignment, shift rotations, and PTO requests.
• Owns shift schedule including workstation assignments/rotations, employee training, employee vacations, employee breaks, overtime assignment, back-up for absent employees, and shift rotations.
• Establishes training plans for direct reports and monitor training performance against schedule to assure shift team has skills needed to sustain production.
• Regularly reviews staffing certification levels that are tied to wafer ramp levels and ensures performance required number of certified individuals for each ramp threshold.
• Develops long-term strategies for manufacturing operations capabilities to support future requirements.
• Responsible for enabling teams to execute through clear goal setting, facilitating work, maintaining accountability, applying differentiated performance management, and driving team results.
• Drives results by inspiring people, role modeling Intel values, developing the capabilities of others, and ensuring a productive work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years and above of relevant professional experience, including at least 1 year of experience leading a team of technicians.
• Strong engineering or technical background is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering-related field, such as Electrical & Electronics, Mechanical, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced, startup-style environment and manage stress well.
• Willing and able to work onsite in Kulim.
• Willingness to work on shifts as required.