Engineering Director – Leading Nutrition & Food Ingredients Business
Job Details
A global leader in the Nutrition & Food Ingredients sector is seeking an experienced Engineering Director to spearhead its end-to-end engineering strategy in Malaysia. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who knows how to blend operational excellence with forward-thinking innovation — and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves when the plant calls.
About the Role
You’ll lead the full engineering lifecycle across multiple manufacturing assets — from capital projects and plant upgrades to reliability, utilities, and automation. This role shapes the long-term engineering roadmap, strengthens technical governance, and ensures the site is always a step ahead of regulatory, sustainability, and efficiency standards.
If you’re the kind of leader who reads a P&ID like poetry, questions the status quo, and builds teams that run on trust, discipline, and continuous improvement… this one hits different.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all site engineering functions: maintenance, reliability, CAPEX planning, utilities, automation, asset care.
- Develop and execute long-term engineering strategy aligned with global manufacturing and business objectives.
- Oversee large-scale capital projects including design, budgeting, execution, and commissioning.
- Strengthen engineering governance: safety, compliance, quality, and audit readiness.
- Drive sustainability and energy-efficiency initiatives to support corporate ESG goals.
- Build, mentor, and elevate high-performing engineering teams.
- Partner closely with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Regional Leadership teams.
- Serve as a technical authority for troubleshooting, plant expansions, and innovation projects.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, or related).
- 12–18+ years of experience in Food, Nutrition, Ingredients, Specialty Chemicals, Pharma, or related process manufacturing.
- Strong track record leading plant engineering, reliability, and capital project execution.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar CAPEX portfolios.
- Proven leadership ability — not just managing teams, but shaping culture and capability.
- Deep understanding of regulatory, safety, and quality systems.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate across global teams.
Please be advised that due to the considerable number of applications we receive, we are only able to contact candidates who meet our client’s requirements.
We appreciate your understanding and wish you the best in your career endeavors.
Sathiyarajan Vinayagamani – SaVi
EA Personnel KAH Reg No: R1216080
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