Director, Automation & Smart Manufacturing

POSITION SUMMARY :

As the global Automation and Manufacturing Engineering leadership, is to define the strategy and drive for the roadmap of advanced approaches in manufacturing excellence. Conduct comprehensive business analysis to assess the current state of manufacturing processes, identify improvement areas, and establish a strategic vision for leveraging manufacturing intelligence to optimize operations.

Work concurrently and collaboratively with designs, factories and suppliers to implement new manufacturing/operational technologies in enhancing the quality and efficiency, also improve the process capability in meeting the NPI needs. Develop strategies for robotics, auto vision and automation, considering customized solution or off the shelf applications. Lead the DFA in NPI, to drive for standardization and collaboration with product development, to design the NPI with high automation friendliness.

Smart manufacturing is a critical path in Best-In-Class manufacturing, which aims to drive digital transformation on a global scale. Lead efforts to standardize business and user experience requirements related to manufacturing intelligence, fostering operational harmonization and ensuring consistent user experiences across different sites. Develop manufacturing intelligence through data analytics. revolutionize manufacturing processes, ensuring efficient, safe, and compliant operations while enhancing plant reliability and uptime.

Combining and implementing the right mix of smart manufacturing solutions into the traditional manufacturing process can help to accurately predict requirements, identify errors, and make innovation and the manufacturing process more manageable.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES :

1. Global Automation & Smart Manufacturing leadership

2. To develop and execute the Automation Strategy for the company.

3. To develop the standardization in Automation & Smart Manufacturing.

4. To liaise with factories in Automation deployment and selection.

5. To align the known good automation and Smart processes to multi sites.

6. Keep exploring latest market available trend and applications to evaluate the performance.

7. Control the overall spending and approached in Automation and smart solutions in sites.

8. To develop and evaluate new operational technologies

9. To identify new processes, materials & manufacturing systems which can match the strategic product and process needs by studying the market, industry, design, vendor & customer trends.

10. To set up DOE and trials to prove the concept and ideas.

11. Coordinate with factory or engineering teams in the qualification and applications.

12. To setup the evaluation and qualification procedure in new technologies adoption.

13. Working with Information technologies in defining the system and application requirements.

14. To initiate efficiency, quality & cost reduction projects

15. To identify the performance improvement and cost saving opportunities based on new technologies, automation and i4.0 approaches.

16. To evaluate market available solutions and perform the qualifications and configurations for internal use.

17. To facilitate factory implementation and monitor the overall performance after rolling out, update the best practices and proliferations.

18. To provide technical support to factories

19. To provide technical details & solution on process issues or quality improvement to factory.

20. Working in NPI development by providing DFA input to enhancing the design.

21. To assist Program/Quality Team in providing feedback to customer on new process or specific technical issues.

22. To setup regular discussion sessions with Design teams and Factories to understand the design trend and manufacturing capability improvement plan.

23. Align with the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team in process standardization.

24. New Operational Technologies/Automation development

25. To lead the overall Internet of Things integrations (IIoT) and solution selection for the company.

26. Focus on the critical technologies are particularly important when implementing a smart manufacturing approach, like Auto visual inspection (AVI), Autonomous Motion Robot (AMR), process visualization (Power BI).

27. Others, including data lake solutions, AI/machine learning–based analytics, digital twins, and augmented reality applications.

WORK ENVIRONMENT :

Based in Penang, the individual may travel frequently to WW manufacturing sites in Mexico, Laguna, Cavite, and Thailand.

SKILLS :

• Automation process and line design experience

• Strong manufacturing process knowledge

• Good quality mind set

• Able to explore and evaluate new process technologies

• Able to work in Fast-changing dynamic environment

• With strong communication skill to handle communication with internal and external parties

• Organized project planning skill

• Problem Solving

• Data analysis

• Testing Process

EXPERIENCE :

• Min. 20 yr Electronics manufacturing experience with automation design an deployment

• Prefer to have box build, PCBA, Product Testing or PSU testing process development experience

• Dataanalyticsto drive for decision

• Teams & projects management

EDUCATION :

Bachelor Degree in engineering or equivalent; electrical & electronic, mechanical, industrial engineering is preferred.

OTHERS :

Applicants must be willing to work in Simpang Ampat, Penang.

WHY JOIN US!!

As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees to attract and retain a talented, highly engaged workforce. Our compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay, an annual pay-for-performance incentive plan, and etc.

In addition to our competitive compensation practices, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate. In Malaysia., we offer a rich benefits package that includes:

• Medical - health care plan, dental, and vision.

• Short and long-term disability and life insurance.

• Executive Employee Health Screening package.

• Generous paid time off starting at 15 days and 19 public holidays.

• 98 days of paid maternity leave for Moms and 7 consecutive days of paid paternity leave for Dads.

• AE Child-Of-Employee Scholarship Program.

• Employee Referral Program.

• Career Growth and Learning Opportunity.