Operations Integration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Review and optimize engineering designs to ensure alignment with production requirements, enhancing machine functionality and efficiency.

• Collaborate with operational teams to capture user insights and translate them into design improvements for seamless manufacturing integration.

• Lead execution phases, assisting in the transition from design to production while troubleshooting technical challenges to minimize disruptions.

• Ensure holistic system integration, incorporating process optimization, workforce ergonomics, and material flow considerations into all machine designs.

• Manage code creation, BOM setup, and master data readiness, ensuring timely and accurate system updates for new production lines.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, working with R&D, marketing, and supply chain teams to validate new materials, packaging, and SKU adjustments.

• Track and resolve operational bottlenecks, driving continuous improvements in machine performance and production workflow efficiency.
  
  

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing operations, engineering integration, or process optimization within industrial or production environments.

• Strong technical understanding of engineering design principles and their practical application in real-world manufacturing settings.

• Minimum Degree in Manufacturing or Engineering, or related fields

• Minimum proficiency in English is required for effective communication and collaboration with international teams.

• Preferably with experience working in a fast-moving consumer goods company in Southeast Asia.

• Engineering Design & Manufacturing Systems Integration – Strong understanding of machine design principles, industrial automation platforms (Siemens, SCADE), and their application in production environments.

• Process Optimization & Workflow Management – Ability to assess and enhance process, people, and material flow, ensuring efficient and scalable manufacturing operations.

• Technical Troubleshooting & Execution Support – Expertise in identifying and resolving operational challenges, ensuring smooth transitions from design to implementation.

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

• TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best. Inspires powerful teamwork and collaboration, connecting people for better results.