We are seeking a high-energy, hands-on Manufacturing Operations Manager to lead our production team. This role is designed for a leader who thrives in the heart of the action and possesses the operational agility to manage a dynamic, rotating schedule. You will be responsible for ensuring safety, quality, and throughput while maintaining a consistent presence on the factory floor.
This role requires onsite presence to manage essential staff while following a weekly day/night rotation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managers of onsite essential roles are expected to be onsite to support operational needs.
- 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 onshift 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, backup 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Sciences, or a related technical discipline, OR a Master's degree (MBA or relevant technical field).
- Minimum 2 to 6 years of relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated leadership and technical expertise in equipment reliability, problem-solving, team development, manufacturing excellence, and driving operational performance.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-style environment and effectively manage stress.
- Willingness and ability to work onsite in Penang and support shift work as required by business and manufacturing operations needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in manufacturing operations, equipment engineering, quality systems, process control, continuous improvement, and high-volume production environments.
- Semiconductor manufacturing experience, including assembly and/or test operations, production ramp support, equipment qualification, process optimization, quality management, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of manufacturing quality methodologies and tools, including root cause analysis, statistical process control, operational excellence practices, and Lean Six Sigma principles.
- Experience developing technical talent, leading cross-functional initiatives, and driving equipment, process, quality, reliability, and productivity improvements in a manufacturing environment.
Job Type:Experienced HireShift:Shift 1 (Malaysia)Primary Location: Malaysia, PenangAdditional Locations:Posting Statement:All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.Position of TrustN/A
Work Model for this Role
This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.*
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Materials Science, Sciences, or related technical discipline (or Master's/MBA)
- 2 to 6 years of relevant professional experience
- Demonstrated leadership in equipment reliability, problem-solving, team development, and driving operational performance
- Ability to work onsite in Penang and support rotating shift work (day/night)
- Experience with equipment maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, and production ramp support
- Experience in manufacturing operations, quality systems, process control, continuous improvement, and high-volume production
- Semiconductor manufacturing experience (assembly/test, equipment qualification, process optimization)
- Knowledge of quality methodologies and tools including root cause analysis, statistical process control, Lean Six Sigma
- Experience developing technical talent and leading cross-functional improvement initiatives
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