Principal Industrial Engineer

Kulim, Kedah, MalaysiaOSRAM OS Penang

What we expect

  • Lead comprehensive capacity planning to ensure alignment with business growth, customer demand, and production capabilities.
  • Oversee the compilation and review of production plans, ensuring operational feasibility and strategic alignment.
  • Foster a collaborative environment to engage diverse teams and build consensus for implementing high-impact initiatives.
  • Lead cross-functional task forces, workshops, Kaizen events and plant strategies to address operational challenges and foster a culture of excellence.
  • Lead and deliver impactful productivity improvement initiatives, generating substantial value-added cost savings.
  • Design and implement strategic headcount modeling to balance workforce needs with productivity targets for exempt, IDL and DL employee for FEK site.
  • Drive initiatives to improve headcount productivity, ensuring labor efficiency aligns with business objectives.
  • Govern and monitor critical operational KPIs, ensuring alignment with performance targets and organizational goals and also provide data-driven insights to leadership.

Who we are looking for

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in industrial engineering, with expertise in Lean governance, operational excellence, and workforce optimization.
  • Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira) and Lean methodologies.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with top management and influence decision-making at the highest levels.
  • Certified Lean Six Sigma or equivalent certification, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent are more value-added.
  • Advanced knowledge of project management, workforce optimization, productivity improvement, and cost-saving initiatives.
  • Advanced proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
ams OSRAM is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Diversity, equity and inclusion is strongly established in our corporate culture and we firmly believe it makes us more successful as a company. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment regardless of ethnic, national or social origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, religion, age, physical and mental abilities.

Contact

Ronald Heon Lon Yip will be happy to answer any questions you may have.


E-Mail: ronald.yip@ams-osram.com

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Job details

Posting date:2025/05/29
Experience level:Experienced Professional (>8 Years)
Type of contract:Permanent
Employment type: Full-time
Work Model:On site
Business unit:Opto Semiconductors (OS)
Organization:OSRAM OS Penang
Job field:Manufacturing
Job ID:21026

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Apply now and advance your career with a job that challenges you and offers many extras

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https://jobs.ams-osram.com/en/job/Principal-Industrial-Engineer-Kulim?id=21026

What we offer

Coaching

Opportunity for coaching, mentoring and networking

Opportunity for coaching, mentoring and networking

Training offers

Training opportunities & structured onboarding and development planning

Training opportunities & structured onboarding and development planning

Various career paths

Key expert, management & project management

Key expert, management & project management

Health

Health and prevention program

Health and prevention program

Pension plan

Employer-funded company pension plan

Employer-funded company pension plan

Bonus

Performance bonus

Performance bonus

Social counseling

Social counseling and company doctor

Social counseling and company doctor

Sports programs

Various sports programs

Various sports programs

Continued payment of remuneration

Continued payment of remuneration in the event of illness

Continued payment of remuneration in the event of illness

Direct insurance

Private insurance offers

Private insurance offers

Where you can find us

Our site in Kulim

OSRAM OS Penang

9090 Kulim, Kedah

Malaysia

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The ams OSRAM culture focuses on variety and innovation.

A more than motivating working atmosphere, combined with attractive training opportunities and performance-oriented compensation encourage our employees’ actions and promote their entrepreneurial spirit. An agile mindset, trust and integrity – for us at ams OSRAM, these values are not just empty promises, but an integral part of our corporate culture that we live every day. In fact, these are the key prerequisites for employees to fulfill even the highest requirements. Learn more about what you can expect from us!

Bringing intelligence to light and passion to innovation


The ams OSRAM Group is a global leader in intelligent sensors and emitters. By adding intelligence to light and passion to innovation, we enrich peoples' lives. Our around 20,000 employees worldwide focus on innovation across sensing, illumination and visualization to make journeys safer, medical diagnoses more accurate and daily moments in communication a richer experience

The ams OSRAM Opto Semiconductors business offers high-performance opto semiconductor components and in-depth support for state-of-the-art system solutions based on innovative semiconductor light sources. The Business Unit can look back on almost fifty years of production and development expertise.

Voices from our employees

I create light for the future of food

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