Chong Kok Beng

Experience

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  SUMITOMO BAKELITE SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.

  Oct 2002 - now

  • Reports to Plant manager. • Provides strategies and schedule to meet company objectives and customer requests.• Guides a team of manufacturing and engineering engineers to achieve department key indicators• Provide guidance and solutions to quality assurance engineers on customers’ quality issues and improvement.• Lead cross-functional teams to meet customer requirements and improvement for cost reduction through lean concept.• Manage quality and improvement project budget and cost.• Responsible for successful transfer of products from overseas plants and research centers.• Ensure timely delivery of products or samples to customers.• Customer visits to understand customer requests and provide technical improvement strategies. • Responsible for compliance to ISO and TS16949 standards• Responsible for customer audits or visits to factory. • Global leader and establish and implement ‘Stop & Fix’ program for all sites to effectively reduce process and quality issues.• Global team for automotive market development.• Global team for plant operation and fan-out improvement activities • Chairman for company Environment committee. Show less • Reports to Production General Manager • Guides a team of manufacturing engineers to achieve department key indicators• Responsible for compliance to ISO and TS16949 standards• Work with cross-functional teams to meet customer requirements and resolve quality related issues• Manage operational cost to meet budgets and constantly explore possibility for addition cost reductions• Ensure timely delivery of products or samples to customers.• Ensure successful transfer of products from overseas plants and research centers• Improve production capacity by process re-engineering.• Responsible for customer audits or visits to factory.• Establish and implement MFCA for company.• Vice-chairman for company Environment committee.• Chairperson for the company's safety committee, lead the committee to identify potential workplace safety hazards and take countermeasures to eliminate the risks Show less • Expand scope to take charge of mixing, kneading and pelletizing sections.• Manage and provide guidance to a team of 5 manufacturing engineers.• Responsible for department manpower including recruitment and production schedule to meet product delivery.• Responsible for safety and quality compliance according standards (TS16949, ISO 9000, ISO14001, etc) for production department.• Responsible to establish and implement strategies to meet department objectives.• Establish PFMEA for production processes.• Establish system in production to comply with ISO 18001.• Vice-chairman for Safety committee and representative for environment committee. Show less

  • Senior Manager

    Jul 2015 - now

  • Production Manager

    Jan 2011 - Jul 2015

  • Deputy Production Manager

    Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

  • Assistant Production Manager

    Jan 2007 - Dec 2008

  • Senior Production Engineer

    Jan 2005 - Dec 2006

  • Production Engineer

    Oct 2002 - Dec 2004