About This Role
This manufacturing technician role focuses on operating complex machinery within the metal industry, ensuring production efficiency, quality, and safety. The position suits a committed and self-starting team player with experience in cold rolling mills or similar operations, who is also willing to train and mentor others.
Responsibilities
- Work according to the production plan and maintain operational efficiency
- Operate complex machinery following established procedures
- Carry out in-process measurements, maintain product quality, and report any deviations to respective personnel
- Comply with safe work practices, ISO procedures, rules, and regulations
- Participate in continuous 5S & TPM improvement initiatives
- Monitor inventory stock to ensure enough stock to run production
- Complete assigned tasks within the agreed time and deliver expected results while avoiding the waste of allocated resources
- Understand customer requirements, recognize the business implications of these requirements, and provide the relevant services to achieve expected results
- Take responsibility for the outcome of assigned work, admit mistakes openly, and be relied upon to do the best for the company
- Collaborate with others at all levels, participate actively in work groups, contribute ideas, offer and ask for support, and create mutual trust and respect
- Not avoid conflict, seek solutions and closures through constructive feedback, active listening, and openness
- Affect others positively, win support by trust, competency, effective communication, and negotiation skills
- Identify and eliminate root causes using appropriate approaches
- Monitor processes/machines and perform major troubleshooting/report any deviations to respective personnel
- Train and mentor less experienced technicians
- Learn and operate more than one machine when needed
- Ensure compliance with safety and quality standards
Requirements
- Diploma in an Engineering discipline
- Minimum 3 years of experience in the metal industry (Cold rolling mill, Strip annealing, Pickling, Levelling, or Slitting machines)
- Committed, self-starter, and team player
- Good in analyzing and solving problems
- Able to read, write, and speak in English
- Willingness to learn and educate others
- Ability to work in rotating shifts and perform overtime on weekdays and weekends
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of LEAN management (TPM, 5S & OEE)
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)