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Factory Manager

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  • Lead production: run the floor, enforce safety, meet schedules and quality.
  • Close-knit team producing security seals for customers across Malaysia and the region.
  • Own the site and multi-shift team; make measurable uptime and yield improvements!

RM 10K - RM 12K

No. 10, Jalan BP 4, Bandar Bukit Puchong, Puchong, Selangor

Job Description

Join our team

Ready to run a busy production floor and make real impact? Working with us means you help produce security seals and related products for customers across Malaysia and the region. We are a grounded, close-knit manufacturing team that values steady quality and reliable delivery.

Role purpose

As Factory Manager you act as the backbone of our operations. You keep production on schedule, maintain safety and quality standards, and make sure people, machines and materials move smoothly and safetly together. Your leadership shapes how efficiently we turn raw materials into finished seals.

Your Growth & Impact

  • Grow your leadership by overseeing a complete production site and supervising a multi-shift team.
  • Expand your technical expertise in injection molding and security seal production systems.
  • Build a measurable track record in uptime, yield improvements, and cost control.
  • Lead visible safety and quality programs that strengthen customer trust and compliance.

Job Requirements

Responsibilities

Production & Operations

  • To manage the production facility in a proficient way to obtain the objectives and targets as set by the
  • Board of directors.
  • To ensure that the production executive and supervisors carry out their duties.
  • To ensure that production targets are met to schedules and the requirements of sales.
  • To liaison with material suppliers to attain competitive pricing.
  • Forward plan on material requirements to assist monthly budgeting.
  • To ensure the quality of products in each production area are manufactured to the highest specification and that the ISO 9001 quality control system is strictly followed by all operators and QC staff.  
  • To undertake and assist in the maintenance of machines and tools as and when necessary.
  • Improve production techniques.
  • Production decision making in the absence of Directors.
  • Follow the guidelines as set out in Handbook of Terms and Conditions of Employment and the Health and Safety Policy.
  • Ensure finished product quality through in-line checks and final inspections before shipment.
  • Coordinate preventive maintenance and spare parts planning to reduce unexpected downtime.

People & Safety

  • Supervise supervisors and operators, run shift handovers, and set clear performance expectations.
  • Deliver on-the-floor coaching and training so teams follow SOPs and quality procedures.
  • Enforce workplace health and safety rules and lead incident investigations when needed.
  • Manage labour planning, shift rostering, and basic HR processes related to the shopfloor.

Inventory & Continuous Improvement

  • Manage inventory levels, coordinate material replenishment, and work with procurement to avoid shortages.
  • Drive cost reduction and waste elimination using practical process improvements and standardised work.
  • Own production KPIs, prepare regular reports, and present improvement plans to senior management.
  • Work with quality and maintenance to implement corrective actions from root cause analysis.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

  • Degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing engineering or relevant diploma with strong practical experience.
  • Minimum 10 years in manufacturing, with significant hands-on time on the shopfloor and prior managerial responsibility.
  • Direct experience with injection molding or similar polymer forming processes and production of security products.
  • Track record of meeting production targets while maintaining quality and safety standards.

Hard Skills & Knowledge

  • Practical knowledge of Injection Molding and the specific steps for Security Seal production and inspection.
  • Strong Inventory Management skills and experience for material planning.
  • Risk Management and quality control skills, including basic SPC and corrective action methods.
  • Familiarity with workplace safety regulations and experience running HSE or incident response processes.

Soft Skills & Qualities

  • Proven team management skills with the ability to motivate multi-shift staff and develop supervisors.
  • Clear communicator who can work with procurement, maintenance, QC, and senior leaders.
  • Strong problem solving and root cause analysis mindset with practical, measurable follow-through.
  • Organised, results-focused, and comfortable making daily operational decisions under pressure.

Skills

Injection Molding
Security Seal
Inventory Management
Risk Management
Team Management
Production Planning
Quality Control
Lean Manufacturing

Additional Info

Company Activity

Last active - few hours ago

Career Level

Manager / Team Lead

Job Specialisation


Company Profile

Acme Seals Malaysia Sdn Bhd -logo-image

Acme Seals Malaysia Sdn Bhd

Acme Seals (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. was established in February 1999 as an independent sister company of Acme Seals Limited of the United Kingdom, who have been manufacturing and developing security seals since 1884, safeguarding commercial, government organizations and cargo transit all around the world. The Malaysian factory based in Puchong, West Malaysia is able to offer full design, manufacture, sales and support of...