Job Description

Position Title
Assistant Production Manager
Industry
Manufacturing - Paper & Packaging Products
Location
Shah Alam, Selangor
Job Overview
The Assistant Production Manager supports the Production Manager in overseeing daily manufacturing operations to ensure efficiency, product quality, and compliance with safety and regulatory standards. This role focuses on optimizing production processes, improving workflow efficiency, maintaining machinery reliability, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The incumbent will also lead key projects, support quality assurance activities, and provide strong leadership to production teams to achieve performance targets. Candidates should have solid experience in manufacturing, preferably in the packaging industry, with strong technical, problem-solving, and leadership skills in a fast-paced production environment.
Job Responsibilities: * Production Operations:

• Drive performance improvement and maximize operational and production efficiencies, along with supporting the growth of new business, through an active management of existing and new customers.
• Identify opportunities to manufacture efficiently at cost effective level by increasing productivity, efficiency, debottlenecking processes and implement innovation in the production floor.
• Setup and maintain an effective compliance system of control to ensure that operations operate within the Group policies, local regulatory framework and contractual requirements.
• Responsible for the effective repair and maintenance of machineries and equipment in the plant through routine planned maintenance and authorising the approval for appropriate engineering projects.
• Maintain expert level of product knowledge and application; provide technical support and to perform product trials both locally and overseas.
• Manages key projects, new capex, modification and responsible for the continuous improvement of the production.
• Quality Assurance & Control

• Implement and maintain quality control systems and procedures
• Conduct regular inspections and audits to ensure compliance with quality standards (ISO).
• Investigate and resolve quality issues, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to develop and improve SOPs and work instructions.
• Team Leadership

• Providing strong leadership to employees at the production floor, ensuring high morale, team work, good employee relations and promoting team collaboration across the organisation.
• Supervise and provide technical guidance to subordinates; set and manage KPIs for all direct reports.
• Support performance evaluations and staff development initiatives.
• Health, Safety & Compliance

• Foster a strong safety culture by ensuring full compliance with HSE policies and guidelines, while consistently maintaining a safe and clean work environment.
• Participate in risk assessments and safety audits.
• Promote safe working practices and lead incident investigations when necessary.
• Reporting & Documentation

• Maintain accurate production and quality records.
• Prepare reports on production performance, quality metrics, and improvement initiatives.
• Support internal and external audits.

Qualifications & Experiences Needed:

• Degree in Manufacturing/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering
• At least 5-7 years' relevant working experience in manufacturing environment, experience in packaging industries is an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of production workflows, lean manufacturing, process optimization, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong leadership qualities with ability to supervise, coach, and develop the production teams.
• Proficient in using production management software (experience in SAP an added advantage)
• Good planning, organizational and project management skills with the ability to multi-task and assimilate new information quickly
• Able to perform root cause analysis and propose/implement process improvements to further the manufacturing output and optimize all phases of production process
• Proactive, self-motivated and able to work under pressure in a fast paced, dynamic manufacturing environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills, effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across departments in the organization.
• High attention to details with strong analytical skills to identify inefficiencies and quality issues.

Great growth opportunities in a highly visible role await the right candidate! If you are keen to be part of a growing company, submit your latest resume CV now to hasvenjit@thmanpower.com or WhatsApp me @ +6010-5604568 (Has) for a confidential discussion. If this is not quite right for you but could be good for someone you know, do share it with your network !! :D

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