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James Leong

Positive and Passionate Leader

Summary

Accomplished operations senior manager offering over 14 years of experience managing 364 people in production. Program pioneer for Lean Manufacturing Program in Local site. Overall Lead for Factory Scrap Management with demonstrated capability in analytical capacity planning

Professional Experience

20152019

Senior Manager Manufacturing

Western Digital (M) Sdn Bhd

1 internal promotions (From Manager)

 Manage NPI production consisting of 350 operators, and 14 staff

  • Restructure the department within 6 months enabling OT and career development, reducing 150 operators (From 500) and 6 shift supervisors (From 15)
  • Transitioned new products to factory (Palmer, Charger and Spyglass). Palmer successfully ramped to 6M/quarter (9 Automation lines within 6 months)

Site leader for scrap management

  • Collaborated with cross-functional team (Finance, Product, Process & Scrap Eng) to reduce factory scrap cost by >$3M (Q3’18-Q3’19), $0.39 Scrap CPU reduction ($1.17 - $0.78)

Initiated and championed Lean Manufacturing program

  • Lead a cross-functional team (Mfg, Eng, Quality & Contam) to realise factory cost savings of $22.7M (FY’16-FY’19) @ 2,271 HC reduction
  • Facilitated 2 days VSM workshop which identified major lean projects with savings >$1M
  • Certified HRDF trainer, helped conduct 35 Lean Training to 1,629 participants (Engs, Techs and Opr)
  • Represent local site for Global CI team 
20052015

Principal Engineer for Industrial Engineering

Western Digital (M) Sdn Bhd

4 internal promotions (From Engineer 1)

  • Capacity planning and expansion for Asia MPS. Expanded factory capacity for KL site from 10M to 20M via P6 New Building
  • Justified to corporate for capital expenditure for Engineering process improvement including purchase of 19 automation lines >$20M project
  • Helped to size the capital expenditure to transfer development from US to Asia, testers and assembly lines amounting to >$8M project
20032005

Production Controller

DK Leather Seats Sdn Bhd

Manage Sewing and Trimming Department (282 operators)

  • Oversee expansion site at Slim River
  • Core team for TS16949 implementation
  • 5S Committee and in-house trainer
  • Core team for ERP implementation
  • Process improvement and CT study
  • Dinner and Dance committee

Education

20012003

Masters in Engineering

Swinburne University of Technology

Industrial Information Technology

19972001

Bachelor of Engineering

University Putra Malaysia

Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing)