HCL Operations Lead

Job Purpose

The Home Care Liquid (HCL) Operations Lead is a management professional with a good technical understanding of manufacturing, general engineering, and warehouse management & operations for total HCL Packing. To lead and manage a team of operators ensuring safety, quality, process engineer and efficiency standards are met. Moreover, this role is to lead the transformation project at Home Care Powder Production.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide the governance function for a cluster of semi-autonomous teams, delivering management and leadership support for performance monitoring, overtime allocation, working patterns and dispute resolution.
• Lead improvement projects for operational processes.
• Understand the factory’s financial situation and use the training in UMS methodologies and IP processes to drive the AM team’s work to counter losses and eradicate waste.
• Lead projects to support factory initiatives.
• Provide common standard of communication and engagement across the factory.
• Liaise closely with the core factory functions, including Leadership Team of Manufacturing, HR, Quality and Safety to achieve this.
• Oversee daily production activities, troubleshoot issues, and ensure targets are met.

Candidate Criteria

Experience & Qualification

• Engineering education background.
• Possess managerial experiences for at least 5 years.
• Have practical experience of applying autonomous maintenance strategies within manufacturing, general engineering, preferably FMCG.
• Experienced working a fast-paced, dynamic and complex setting.
• Must be able to converse in English.
• Strong coaching, influencing and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of the end-to-end manufacturing processes relevant of:
  • Preventative maintenance schemes and condition monitoring.
  • Principal factory controls (e.g. for HPC; spray drying, soap making, batch & continuous mixing of liquids and bottle, sachet, bar and pouch filling machinery).