Factory Manager

Job Description : FACTORY MANAGER MALAYSIA A regional leading food manufacturer and FMCG player is recruiting for a Factory Manager (Food Manufacturing) job based in Penang, Malaysia. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this role has the opportunity to be involved with P&L and leading the overall direction and leadership for the plant, producing quality product, efficiently and safely within established procedure of the organisation. As the Factory Manager (Food Manufacturing), you will have the chance to lead recruitment, training, and coaching of the entire team. It is a high impact leadership role which requires best in class engineering and manufacturing practices that would result in operation efficiency, quality product, and flexible manufacturing capability for export needs across the region. • Establish strategic vision, mission and purpose for the site and effectively communicating the action plans and progress towards the site's Vision and Mission • Responsible to ensure compliance with safety, security and environmental regulations and policy, while providing a safe work environment for all employees • Lead and manage all key operational aspects, human resources and technical assets of manufacturing site to maximise competitiveness in terms of costs and quality while fulfilling all legal and company requirements • Providing leadership in production compliance in all aspects to maintain/ increase product portfolio and support global volume growth strategy • Deliver overall financial results that exceed budgeted standards and achieve productivity requirements To succeed in this Factory Manager (Food Manufacturing) role, background in food manufacturing with experiences introducing and working with latest food technology in a modern manufacturing environment will be an added advantage. This will involve lean structure, highly autonomous environment, and if you have strong leadership in leading a lean team, you will certainly enjoy it. • Tertiary qualification in engineering/ manufacturing/ economics, science or food science equivalent • Successfully implemented greenfield/ brownfield in relation to food manufacturing with the introduction of the latest food technology • Minimum of 10 years' experience in manufacturing environment, out of which five years is in plant function management • Possess strategic, conceptual and analytical skills to drive continuous improvement • Excellent communication, people management and leadership skills both with internal and external stakeholders • Excellent project coordination and must possess strong change management skills

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