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BASF has been operating in Malaysia for more than 30 years, through a number of wholly-owned companies and joint ventures in the country. BASF (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd was incorporated in 1989, and operates main office in Bandar Utama and a manufacturing plant in Pasir Gudang in Johor, as well as an operational site in Kulim, Kedah. BASF Asia-Pacific Service Centre Sdn Bhd began its operation in 2005. Located in Kuala Lumpur, the Shared Services Center provides functional services in the areas of finance, controlling, information services, human resources, environment, health & safety, procurement and import-export order management to BASF Group companies in 19 markets across Asia Pacific. BASF Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, established in 1997, provides infrastructure and utilities support services to BASF sites in Malaysia. BASF holds 60% of its joint venture BASF PETRONAS Chemicals Sdn Bhd, which operates a state-of-the-art Verbund production site in the Gebeng Industrial Zone, Pahang, and 50% of Toray BASF PBT Resin Sdn Bhd. BASF posted sales to customers in Malaysia of approximately \xe2\x82\xac390 million in 2021 and had 2,295 employees as of the end of the year. Further information is available on .

Objectives of the Position

• To be responsible for the safe and profitable operation of Polymer Dispersion Plant, Pasir Gudang Site
• Striving for Excellence in Safety, Health, Environment Protection, Production cost, Quality, Productivity and Moral Aspects

Main Tasks

OPERATIONS

• Responsible for the effective & safe Operations of Polymer Dispersions Plant to meet the requirement of marketing /customers
• To set goals and supervise Production, Production Planning & Controlling, Maintenance and Quality Assurance departments to ensure production activities are planned effectively thus preventing delivery constraints despite of low levels of inventories.
• Identify, plan and provide resources required for unobstructed and cost-effective operation of Dispersions production Polyline1 & 2, catering to the market demand of business units.
• Participate in all planned meetings as per site and business unit requirement.
• Deputy to site Manager. Act as Site Manager in the absence of Site Manager.
• Develop succession planning to improve the working efficiency, quality and professional skills of the team member.
• Lead and develop employee as per BASF guideline to form the Best Team.
• Establish and oversee the implementation of preventive maintenance: repairing programs thereby ensuring no interruption in production process and efficient use of machinery/equipment.
• Establish communication with internal and external customers on need basis, to maintain and improve overall operations efficiency.
• Ensure monthly plant inspection to identify processes that could result in a potential non-conformance.
• Generate targets related to productivity, resources conservation, waste minimization and delegate down the line with action plan to achieve the targets.
• Identify, plan and implement all actions to comply with the statutory requirements applicable to Dispersions plant operation.
• To initiate and coordinate improvements of production processes thus increasing capacities, decreasing fixed costs and maintaining quality at a high level of reproducibility.
• To support managers of PDP in preparing their cost center budgets and cost controls by reviewing at regular intervals.
• To guide & support managers of PDP in troubleshooting complex technical problems.
• Ensure operational consistency using training and development of system.

ENVIROMENT HEALTH &SAFETY

• Accountable for all EHS related and legal requirements as stipulated by local regulations, BASF Directives and Responsible Care\xc2\xae requirements
• To initiate and coordinate PDP\'s quality management activities including maintaining achievement of ISO 9001 certification, ISO 14001 certification and ISO 50001.
• According to corporate, company and statutory EHS requirements, lead and monitor the implementation of the relevant safety and environment protection policies and procedures in all operation areas.
• To implement and maintain a high standard of safety management including environmental and occupational health issues for Pasir Gudang Site.
• Responsible for implementation of Responsible care\xc2\xae in Polymer Dispersions Plant.
• Member of CIMT and SIMT to discuss the way out in case of Crisis.
• Act as back-up SIMT Emergency Advisor in the absence of Site Manager.
• Act as Incident Commander and guide the on-scene commander in case of Emergency in PDP
• As a responsible person for process safety of Dispersions Plant, review and implement Process safety requirements on continual basis.
• Identify, plan and implement all BASF EHS/RC directives/guidelines applicable to Dispersions plant operation.
• Plan and implement improvement projects identified from audits, visits, directives and ideas from within and outside as applicable. Further, monitor the progress and report the same to the concerned
• Continually improve safety records by addressing safety issues and employee safety attitudes.
• Ensure that discharge/emission parameters from the plant are within the statutory limits and health & hygiene of the plant personnel are well maintained
• Supervise the establishment and maintain the documentation system updated (rules / regulations, training, inspection and audit material / records, documented and filed according to the needs)
• Ensure training about safety and procedures for the outsourced personnel regarding packing / housekeeping / finished product tanker loading activities.
• Implementation of Covid-19 pandemic guidelines as per MOH.
• Provide avenues to employees to raise their concerns- Suggestion Boxes, Action tracker, Bizagi and F2F talks.

OTHERS

• To transfer technology from BASF SE to BASF Malaysia and vice-versa as per the requirement.
• To initiate and coordinate improvements of business processes within PDP and optimizes processes across borders to other departments thus enabling a smooth functioning of inter-departmental interfaces.
• To contribute to BASF Malaysia\'s quality management activities.
• To initiate and coordinate activities to modify products as required by local and regional customers.
• To organize technical support for customers in cooperation with Marketing Divisions, e.g.

• troubleshooting technical problems at customer\'s site
• commissioning production units for licensees of BASF technology

Minimum Education and Qualification Required for the Position

• Education: Bachelor\'s degree in chemical engineering / Master\'s Degree in Chemistry
• More than 15 years technical experience, plant/operations management preferred. Experience, skills and knowledge in various manufacturing disciplines including production, Technology, is preferred
• Technical & Professional Knowledge:

• Good interpersonal, time management skills with ability to interact in a multiple hierarchical level.
• Continuous improvement techniques and methods including, overall asset effectiveness, Statistical techniques
• Distributed control system operations / Safety instrumented system functions (SIS) for enhanced safety of the operations.
• Competency with systemic approach for the root cause analysis.

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Pasir Gudang, 01, MY

BASF (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.

Quality Management

Permanent

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