SiangTsen Chin

Provide strategic leadership for the Facilities Department in a semiconductor company, overseeing the setup of new offices and engineering laboratories. Lead optimization of facility and utility systems to support business-critical operations, while partnering closely with building management and contractors to plan and execute works efficiently. Maintain high system reliability and compliance through structured inspections, proactive maintenance strategies, and timely corrective actions. Exercise strong governance over departmental budgeting, cost control, and capital planning, while managing change initiatives to ensure minimal operational disruption and successful implementation.

Lead the Facility Department for Mattel Malaysia. The scope includes maintain and upkeep the factory building; and ensure utility system functioning in optimal condition through daily inspection, conducting proactive and reactive maintenance. Work closely with the EHS team to ensure the plant complies with all rules and regulations. Achievement : 1) Improve main chiller efficiency and able to achieve 2% saving of total electrical bill by increase cooling tower efficiency and capacity to reduce cooling water temperature enter the condenser. 2) Reduce/avoid downtime for air compressor line and cooling tower system for process by redesigning the system. 3) Upgrade air pollution control unit to improve the efficiency and eliminate the risk to catch fire. 4) Plan and design to ensure proper installation of utility system to support production re-layout and capacity increase project. 5) Implement Preventive maintenance system to improve facility equipment efficiency to reduce/ avoid production disturbance. 6) Implement flood mitigation project and successfully prevent flood in the factory since year 2018. 7) Successfully replace the roof and gutter of 40 years old building; and divert rain water to prevent water leaking inside the building. 8) Firefighting system maintenance and upgrading to support the application of Fire Certificate on year 2020. 9) Upgrade sewage treatment plant to comply with New Sewage Regulation 2009 standard. 10) Reduce energy usage plantwide through energy monitoring and energy treasure hunt. 11) Contractor management include review and approved JSEA; and PTW audit to ensure contractor comply with company EHS requirements. No recordable incident recorded from facility project since 2017 12) Work closely with compliance team and achieve zero non-conformance on Facility Department activity during ISO14001 audit. 13) Pandemic Management - Plan and coordinate plantwide sanitizing program and arrangement during COVID-19 pandemic.

Lead the production team and provide the daily run rate needed, quality specification needed. Production run rate base on customer request and raw material stock available. Closely monitor type of bean available, country origin, quality, storage available and shipment. Preventive Maintenance program planning for critical machine and servicing during major shutdown. Weekly product quality report preparation. Achievement : 1) Improve product quality efficiency up to 99.7% by increasing the % of moisture and reduce % of oil content. The extracted oil can also be sold as crude oil which generate additional income to the company. 2) Machine modification and parameter setting and adjustment to suite new raw material cotton seed dehulling process. 3) Perform PM and provide quality specification for critical machine exp: cracking machine, flaking machine, dehulling machine and extruder to get the constant quality. 4) Provide proper method and cleaning procedure to deep clean extractor body and conveyor yearly to get better oil extract from flake and prevent the down time. No major breakdown in between the plan shutdown maintenance. 5) Install Gas leak detector in critical area to monitor hexane leak. Reduce frequency of hexane purchase 1 trip for every 2 months. 6) Implement steel putty application for emergency patching for high-risk area. Reduce energy and production waste and eliminate the risk of repairing (previously by welding) and operator health (chemical fume inhalation). 7) Pest control program and perform 5S. Reduce 95% of rat after 2 months.

Job Functions : Lead the maintenance team with proper Preventive Maintenance program. Machine & system improvement to reduce machine down time. Improve method and material used for repairing. Major shutdown maintenance planning includes contractor management. Critical spare parts sourcing and inventory control. Achievement : 1) Provide PM schedule for critical machine, replace gearbox oil, bearing, belting, conveyor chain, motor bearing, motor amp reading. Able to reduce downtime significantly from 60-80hrs to below 10 hrs/month. 2) Improve technician troubleshooting skills through train technician on machine components and the method of repairing machine. 3) Reduce machine repair time and damage parts/ machine by introducing special tools and develop proper method for technician to repair machine. 4) Reduce production downtime through prolonged lifetime of chute and conveyor system from 3 months to 1 year by implementing the use of AR plate and steam pipe. 5) Apply fiber layer for internal concrete drain, able to prevent the chemical leak into the soil, and easy maintenance during shutdown. 6) Sizing and convert plantwide motor drive flange coupling to rubber coupling for the life span of the bearing and eliminated fire risk from the heat / fire spark from the damage flange coupling. This also reduce replacement time. 7) Safety awareness, introduced PPE wearing when handling with chemical contains equipment, machine or piping. 8) Design and install double layer pipe with maintain heat by steam supply to prevent crude oil sludge from hardening during transferring. 9) Prepared and produced a handbooks the details of oil extractor machine for major maintenance including the method, tools, and critical point to monitor. Which previously need full external support to perform the work, now able to do inhouse.

Job Functions : Involve in product transfer and localize, parts sourcing, equipment design and improvement, costing. Equipment installation and performance testing. Equipment installation and repairing at site. Achievement : 1) Localize power track machine include cost reduction, weight reduce with maintain the performance. 2) Localize evaporative cooling system with better efficiency and cost reduction by changing the new evaporative media and source.

Job Functions : Lead the Maintenance Department, Project planning, Machine troubleshooting, Machine PM planning. Work arrangement and contractor supervising. The scope of Maintenance Department includes maintain and upkeep the factory building; and ensure utility system functioning in optimal condition through daily inspection and conducting proactive and reactive maintenance. Achievement : 1) Arrangement and set up new chemical resin plant within the 9 month time frame, include the building, boiler, stainless steel chemical tank, reactor, piping and the control system. Include commissioning. 2) PLC Program modification and inverter setting for Setting Room pick and place transfer wagon to provide soft start (Reduce machine jerking) and reduce idle time. 3) Design & install portable dust or particle collector to reduce defect of the product. 4) Set up machine master list and check list to fulfill ISO requirement. 5) Implement machine breakdown historical list, to monitor machine performance, breakdown trend and include the root cause and spare parts used. 6) Install online machine data monitoring system to record and monitor the critical machine (hot cold press) for understanding the process and easy troubleshooting. 7) Design and convert machine mechanical temperature and pressure control system to digital to provide more accuracy and parameter setting.

Job Functions : Lead and work together with Maintenance Department on daily maintenance job planning, Machine troubleshooting, Machine PM planning. Work arrangement and contractor supervising, JKKP inspection arrangement for boiler. Achievement : 1) Work with manager to install and commissioning proportional valve for thermal oil temperature control line to provide more constant temperature. 2) Convert mechanical pump to magnetic pump to reduce production downtime and leakage issue. 3) Upgrade hydraulic valve normal O-ring material to Viton O-ring for hot cold press to prolong the valve malfunction from 2 month to 6 month, able to reduce downtime and schedule in PM plan. 4) PM plan for hydraulic cylinder seal replacement and spare parts control, which need long lead time. 5) Upgrade hot cold press M/S flexible coupling and pipe to S/S flexible coupling and S/S Flexible hose. To reduce the frequency of breakdown and easy maintenance. 6) Convert manual product pull & transfer trolley to automatic control with add in PLC , sensor and motor drive. Able to reduce 2 manpower and risk of incident. 7) Install pilot light signal for individual AirCond compressor at production for easy monitoring the condition inside the building.

Job Functions : Training program during the Diploma course. Mainly to set up new production line for the auto conveyor system, product lifter, auto racking system and work bench for Dell factory (APCC1 & 2). Provide technical support after project completed. Mainly is the sensor, control card diverter plate issue