Role: Project Coordinator/ Operations
Location: Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia
Employment Type – Contract – 12 months/ 1 year
Experience – 2+ years
Key Responsibilities:
- Represents Worldwide Operations from a product perspective.
- Creates factory strategies and plans aligned with product roadmaps.
- Utilizes metrics to improve new production introduction and product quality at launch and throughout lifecycle.
- Ensures Operations achieves Ready to Ship Release and transitions into production/sustaining.
- Applies Program Review Process (PrP)/Phase Gate Process to transition products from definition to sustaining phase.
- Drives action plans and strategies to reduce overall manufacturing transformation cost.
- Leads quality improvements via risk assessment/mitigation, eliminating defects in design, supplier, NPI, and manufacturing processes.
- Promotes continuous improvement in PrP process, product manufacturability, flexibility, cycle time, and quality.
Key Requirements:
- Works independently; achieves results with leader supervision; seeks help when needed.
- Initiates root cause analysis on assigned tasks/issues; expands scope when required.
- Initiates pre‑defined corrective actions with moderate guidance.
- Completes multiple tasks in project plan; meets deadlines; tracks and reports progress; drives small team/issue resolution with coaching.
- Seeks advice when unsure about prioritization; completes projects as directed.
- Accurately processes and interprets basic data; applies solid problem‑solving approaches.
- Participates in core and extended teams, informing members of actions/plans.
- Follows launch schedule templates with guidance.
- Identifies simple NUDDs (New, Unique, Different, Difficult) and develops mitigation plans with guidance.
- Develops Functional Plans (FP) for simple product launches with guidance.
- Follows build guidelines for engineering and production builds.
- Develops containment plans for simple excursion management.
- Creates Golden Configurations (GCs) for less complex products with guidance.
- Manages previously created BOMs (Bill of Materials) with limited guidance.
- Follows standard practices/procedures in analyzing situations or data with readily available answers.
- Understands that erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may cause delays.