Operations Manager

**Job Description and Qualifications**

This position is accountable for the safe, efficient and reliable operation and maintenance of all ASU, HyCO, Generated Gas and related facilities in Malaysia. In addition, the position interfaces with the business area to ensure optimum cost and profitable operation for each facility. This position interfaces with Engineering, Procurement, EHS, Operations Excellence and commercial area to ensure that new assets are designed, built and started up to ensure long term flawless operation and regulatory compliance.

Nature and Scope

This is a senior operations management role for IG Malaysia to setup, improve and sustain world class ASU and related facilities in Malaysia.

This position reports to the Southeast Asia Operations Director. The position holder has 6 direct reports, consisting of Operations line management with operate and maintain responsibilities, Plant Projects and Maintenance.

This position directly manages and coordinates all activities associated with IG Malaysia ASU and related facilities, is responsible for developing and maintaining a safe and integrity rich work environment in compliance with government requirements and company standards and values, to maintain Operational and Maintenance programs within budget, drive continuous improvement for Operational Excellence on Safety, People, Service, Quality, Reliability and Cost as well as support M&A and business development.

This position is responsible for formulation of and adherence to annual operations budget, conformance with established goals and objectives. The operations director is directly accountable to lead the organization to a level of performance identifiable with World Class organizations.

This position will create an operational strategy to align with Business Strategy to achieve or exceed profitability targets, support growth in diverse business modes and through M&A.

The job holder will support business growth and new business mode which leverage existing operations resources and people development, and setup AP operations management system for new-built plants and M&A production sites, regarding to facility and technology, personnel, work processes, and management systems.

**_DIMENSIONS_**

Air Products Employees:
Number of Plants:
Direct report: 6, 40 employees

6

**_PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES_**
- As key contributor to participate in formulating and administering IG Malaysia Operations policies and developing long range goals and objectives. This includes the direction, focus, and visualization of activities in responsible departments to further the overall progressive goals and objectives and monitor their progress.
- Provide leadership in continuous improvement activities and successfully enable scalability to achieve our goals of meeting quality, cost, and delivery objectives.
- Safety leadership to deliver company people safety goal (behaviors) and responsible for Process safety management implementation (improve conditions) in production plants for world-class safety performance.
- Direct the company's production activities to ensure maximum effectiveness is obtained to produce quality products within budgetary guidelines and achieve productivity improvement targets
- Accountable to ensure products meet or exceed customer quality standards and required delivery schedules are met. Formulate processes to enable management system in place such as ISO9000, ISO14000 certification.
- Directs Plant Project engineering and Maintenance Engineering efforts to ensure production facilities and equipment are adequately designed, built and maintained. The emphasis will be on high reliable plant operations and create strategies to reduce capital, labor and material cost and pursuit maintenance excellence
- Facilitating team decision on Improving and Simplifying current working process, especially cross-functional working process and create new ones if there is not clear
- to have formal management system and clear work process with RACI chart in place, to smooth the productivity projects
- Facilitate Risk Evaluation and decision-making process to take calculated risk to support business decision making
- Manage quality requirement especially for e-Ton, implement best practice from the region.
- Working on improve Conducts of Operation and implement Operation discipline program in production site, bring BRP (basically reliability program) into formal management system, benchmarking best practice of industrial operation management system.
- Support M&A activities.
- Develop talents and organization to support Growth and drive Operations Safety, Reliability and Efficiency.

**_JOB REQUIREMENTS_**
- Job Incumbent is expected to have bachelor’s degree related to Process Industry, Operation management, Advanced degree on engineering, business management and ASU/HyCO experience will be a plus
- Job Incumbent is expected to have about 15 years work experience in a similar work environment,