We are Malayan Flour Mills Berhad, an established billions ringgit public listed food manufacturing company. We aspire to be a leading food manufacturing enterprise in the region and have also diversified our business from flour milling to the sale of raw materials and integrated poultry business. Its integrated poultry business includes the breeding and sale of day-old chicks, broiler and breeder farming, processing and sale of poultry products and feeds milling. With over 50 years of experience and a workforce of over 2600 in Malaysia and Vietnam, as part of our expansion plans we are seeking the right talents to be part of our winning team.
Job DescriptionResponsible for driving the overall planning and scheduling activities of the poultry processing plant production, optimizing orders fulfilment, materials movement, and on-time delivery according to demand and quality standards aligned with the company's strategies.
Strategize and direct the overall master planning of production activities considering capacity constraints such as equipment, manpower, raw materials, ingredients, consumables, crates, etc., to meet sales forecasts and/or customers' orders while ensuring safety and quality standards.
Ensure production optimizes orders fulfilment and on-time delivery in accordance with sales forecasts or customer orders while minimizing imbalances, in collaboration with sales and demand planners. Identify challenges and opportunities, perform root cause analysis on variances, and recommend action plans accordingly.
Monitor business market demands and orchestrate plant production while considering upstream supply from the broiler farm, including managing birds' allocation to production lines by utilizing bird size bell curve, broilers' scratches, Coefficient of Variance (CV), harvesting, and logistics, impacting poultry product quality.
Collaborate with the Production Manager to drive optimal Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in the plant to ensure equipment availability for production and timely completion of preventive maintenance, through close coordination with Engineers from P1 to P8.
Develop good liaison with FP&A team for cost-effective evaluations, Marketing for effective inventory management, and profit optimization on production output (product/SKU mix), and HR on Learning and Growth.
Work closely with upstream broiler suppliers (Stakeholder Engagement) to reduce quality defects of birds coming into the plant; uniformity, (wing and drumstick bruises, yellow and red scratches, ammonia burns on the hock joint and foot pads).
Manage the entire production scheduling at the plant, encompassing optimal workforce utilization while considering the cost benefit of overtime against the production targets set.
Continuously review, monitor & analyze customer requirements, supplier performance, planning, and actual production to achieve customer satisfaction.
Optimize production planning and control with up-to-date information on demand variation affecting raw material requirements, ultimately affecting production planning and overall operation.
Continuously drive improvements and operational excellence in plant production planning to achieve a lean, streamlined, and effective value chain, hence optimizing profitability.
Perform any other tasks and assignments as directed by the management from time to time.
QualificationsBachelor's Degree or Diploma in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Food Technology, Food Processing Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent.
7 – 8 years of working experience in the relevant field.
Additional InformationWinner of HR Asia Best Company to Work For in Asia for 6 consecutive years in2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 & 2018
Winner of HR Asia Most Caring Company Award for 5 consecutive years in2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 & 2019#J-18808-Ljbffr