Director, Automation

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As the global Automation and Manufacturing Engineering leadership, is to define the strategy and drive for the roadmap of advanced approaches in manufacturing excellence. Conduct comprehensive business analysis to assess the current state of manufacturing processes, identify improvement areas, and establish a strategic vision for leveraging manufacturing intelligence to optimize operations.

Smart manufacturing is a critical path in Best-In-Class manufacturing, which aims to drive digital transformation on a global scale. Lead efforts to standardize business and user experience requirements related to manufacturing intelligence, fostering operational harmonization and ensuring consistent user experiences across different sites. Develop manufacturing intelligence through data analytics. revolutionize manufacturing processes, ensuring efficient, safe, and compliant operations while enhancing plant reliability and uptime.

Combining and implementing the right mix of smart manufacturing solutions into the traditional manufacturing process can help to accurately predict requirements, identify errors, and make innovation and the manufacturing process more manageable.

**ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES**:

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Global Automation & Smart Manufacturing leadership**
- To develop and execute the Automation Strategy for the company
- To develop the standardization in Automation & Smart Manufacturing
- To liaise with factories in Automation deployment and selection
- To align the known good automation and Smart processes to multi sites.
- Control the overall spending and approached in Automation and smart solutions in sites
- ** To develop and evaluate new operational technologies**
- To identify new processes, materials & manufacturing systems which can match the strategic product and process needs by studying the market, industry, design, vendor & customer trends.
- To set up DOE and trials to prove the concept and ideas.
- To setup the evaluation and qualification procedure in new technologies adoption
- ** To initiate efficiency, quality & cost reduction projects**
- To identify the performance improvement and cost saving opportunities based on new technologies, automation and i4.0 approaches.
- To evaluate market available solutions and perform the qualifications and configurations for internal use.
- To facilitate factory implementation and monitor the overall performance after rolling out, update the best practices and proliferations.
- ** To provide technical support to factories**
- To provide technical details & solution on process issues or quality improvement to factory
- Working in NPI development by providing DFA input to enhancing the design
- To assist Program/Quality Team in providing feedback to customer on new process or specific technical issues
- To setup regular discussion sessions with Design teams and Factories to understand the design trend and manufacturing capability improvement plan
- Align with the Advanced Manufacturing Engineering team in process standardization
- ** New Operational Technologies/Automation development**
- To lead the overall Internet of Things integrations (IIoT) and solution selection for the company
- Focus on the critical technologies are particularly important when implementing a smart manufacturing approach, like Auto visual inspection (AVI), Autonomous Motion Robot (AMR), process visualization (Power BI)

**WORK ENVIRONMENT**:
Based in Singapore with frequent travel to other manufacturing sites, including Mexico, Penang, Laguna, Cavite and Thailand.

**SKILLS**:

- Automation process and line design experience
- Strong manufacturing process knowledge
- Good quality mind set
- Able to explore and evaluate new process technologies
- Able to work in Fast-changing dynamic environment
- With strong communication skill to handle communication with internal and external parties
- Organized project planning skill
- Problem Solving
- Data analysis
- Testing Process

**EXPERIENCE**:

- Min. 20 years Electronics manufacturing experience with automation design an deployment
- Prefer to have box build, PCBA, Product Testing or PSU testing process development experience
- Data analytics to drive for decision
- Teams & projects management

**EDUCATION**:

- Degree in Engineering or equivalent, preferably in Electrical & Electronic, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.