Assistant Production Manager

• Assist the production manager in overseeing the overall manufacturing processes to monitor and track overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) in terms of availability, performance, and quality in the utilization of manpower, machine efficiency, and materials in production. Identify operational losses, benchmark progress, improve productivity, and reduce the cost of overall production operations.
• Assist production manager to set up individual lines’ structure with clear procedures on communications, scope of work, standard operating manuals, procurement and approvals, guidelines, reports and meetings.
• Assist production manager to strategize and direct the planning of production activities in assigned production lines to meet delivery dates according to sales forecast, planning, and/or customers' orders while meeting safety and quality standards. Identify challenges, perform root cause analysis for variation, and recommend solutions accordingly.
• Proactively and continuously review and monitor output productivity as well as current manpower deployment, production processes, and practices to find continuous improvements in procedures, methods, effectiveness, and resource utilization for low-cost conversion.
• Analyze operational incidents and make recommendations or changes in policies/procedures to prevent future occurrences for achieving higher productivity in production lines.
• Lead, motivate, train and upgrade the technical and production skills of the production team to achieve optimum productivity.
• Provide strong leadership to the production team, ensure high morale, teamwork, good employee relations, and promote team collaboration across the organization.
• Ensure production activities comply with standard of safety policies: Halal, GMP, HACCP, DOSH, DOE and all other statutory requirements.
• Work with relevant departments to eliminate production problems, improve and maintain a high-quality level, and spearhead action plans.
• Collaborate with the engineering team for the implementation of machine/production line maintenance and if any improvement projects.
• Assist in the execution of R&D initiatives to improve the formula, reduce costs, and introduce new products when necessary.
• Attend weekly/monthly meetings and prepare daily/monthly reports as requested.
• Carry out other duties and tasks as directed by the Management in line with competencies and activities associated with any of the above processes.

Job Requirement:
Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma, or Professional Degree in Engineering (Industrial) / Manufacturing or equivalent.

• Must have sound knowledge of 5S and ISO 9001.
• Background specialized in Quality Control or equivalent is a must.
• At least 5 years of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
• Possess excellent organizational, planning, and management skills; outstanding interpersonal, and teamwork skills as well as analytical, problem solving and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in ERP systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Mandarin, with the ability to communicate information to colleagues from China.
• Demonstrate a working proficiency with MS Office applications.
• Applicants must be willing to work in our Factory in Pulau Indah, Selangor.