Senior Supervisor, Manufacturing

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we've been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital, WD, WD_BLACK, and SanDisk Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world's biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today's exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Broad Functions

• To supervise subordinate to achieve the company goal and target of UPH, LAR, DPPM Absenteeism, cost, cycle time for a continual improvement and Customer Satisfaction.
• To prioritize assigned work and resources to meet committed deliverables aligned to organization goals.
• Monitor and develop skills and attributes of subordinate to ensure them able to perform their task and match with WD culture.
• Works across functional team to identifying and resolving the problem including identify and creating opportunity to improve the most effective and efficient work flow.

• Essential Duties & Responsibilities   This job is responsible for delivering the organization outcome as stated:

• To monitoring and report department goal and target
• Monitoring and report yield or quality issues to manager to ensure that any issue effected production were immediately addressed by the responsible person
• Controlling the work in process and output  
• To utilize Manpower for maximum and improve UPH
• To improve LAR and DPPM for satisfy both internal and external customer
• To minimum usage of Direct and Indirect Material
• To reduce and improve Absenteeism of subordinate
• To maintain workplace Safety, Discipline, compliance with rules and regulations to prevent nonconformance
• To communicate the company information to subordinate who are under supervision    
• Follow QMS, EHS, ESD procedures and HR rules and regulations
• Understand the IMS policy and be able to apply and contribute to the organization to achieve per intended outcome.
• To direct and supervise employees in the responsible unit to follow the regulation and any work instruction.
• To analyze the work of the responsible unit to primarily find risks or dangers (JSA or HIRAC), in collaboration with EHS officers and manager to mitigate risk.
• To teach correct working procedures to the employees in the responsible unit for working safely.
• To ensure the working conditions of machinery, tools and equipment to be in safe condition before starting daily work.
• To direct and supervise the use of personal protective equipment of the employees in the responsible unit.
• To report the accidents or illness or annoyance caused by working of the subordinate to the manager and report it to the safety officers.
• To investigate the cause of the accident, illness or annoyance caused by working of the employees in collaboration with the EHS officer.
• To promote and support the EHS activities e.g. waste segregation, energy saving, good catch reporting, etc.

• Authority  

• Production planning : Planning for Daily Build Plan (Going rate, materials and Man power)
• Assign work to achieve deliverables committed to organization goals that complies with work rule and ethics and compliance policies of the company.
• Report anomaly or non-compliance in relation to Ethics and Compliance policies of the Company.
• Report near-miss, good catch and work safety violations in relation to workplace health and safety regulations.
• Report product / production irregularity, anomaly, defectives in relation to product quality assurance.
• To request/provide the proper training for the subordinate
• Verify and approve disciplinary action to subordinate who are under supervision as the organization.
• Propose, review and approve over time and attendance.
• Propose, review and approve Annual Compensation Review (ACR), Short Term Incentive (STI) and Onetime payment Award.
• Stop working if unsafety or effected to environment and immediately inform manager.
• Order subordinate to stop working when found unsafe condition then coordinate to relevant department to mitigation risk.

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (e.g., Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing) or related fields such as Operations Management, Logistics, or Applied Sciences
• 5 - 10 years of experience in manufacturing, production, or operations; some leadership or team lead experience preferred
• Experience in Electronic industry would be an advantage

PREFERRED:

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office, ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle), and production tracking tools
• Experience with digital tools like Power BI, MES systems, or basic automation concepts
• Be able to work in shift
• Growth mindset and can-do attitude

SKILLS:

• Understanding of manufacturing processes (e.g., assembly, machining, etc.), lean manufacturing, 6S, Kaizen, or Six Sigma
• Strong experience in Process Instruction, process flow and OCAP which related with their job
• Cleanroom & ESD Discipline including impact/related on the product
• Occupational health and safety, HIRAC, EHS procedures that related with their job and PPE.
• Integrated Management System (IMS)
• Production planning for daily/weekly build plan
• Basic knowledge of maintenance, quality assurance, supply chain, or logistics
• Good leadership and able to manage, control, supervision people to contribute their performance to achieve company goal
• Strong active listening skills with the ability to ask thoughtful and probing questions to determine client needs
• Self-motivated with the ability to effectively multi-task and work collaboratively in a fast-paced
• Make clear, logical decisions based on facts
• Demonstrated ability to deliver consistent positive results through influencing, coordinating and managing the efforts of others

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