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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Manager – Manufacturing

Manufacturing & Production OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBayan Lepas, Penang, MalaysiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 15 years of experience in operations, process engineering, or a high-volume manufacturing environment.
  • At least 10 years in a leadership or managerial role leading operations teams across various functions.
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating cross-functionally with operations, quality, engineering, and other business functions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and direct cross-functional operational teams to streamline processes, elevate product quality, maximize yield, and drive operational efficiency.
  • Design and implement process monitoring frameworks and key performance indicators to enable proactive risk management and continuous improvement.
  • Integrate new processes and systems into operations, ensuring product quality standards and business delivery commitments are met.
  • Strengthen process capability, minimize variation, and sustain operational excellence through cross-functional collaboration.

Desired Qualifications

  • Proven experience in process optimization, performance improvement, and quality management.
  • Experience in operational process control, system implementation, and transferring new processes into production environments.

About the Company

Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Western Digital, which goes by WD, designs and makes hard disk drives, mostly the high-capacity models that cloud and AI data centers use to store huge amounts of data cheaply. In 2013, its HGST unit shipped the first helium-filled hard drives, which fit more disks into each drive and use less power. Its drives store data on stacks of spinning magnetic disks, and the lineup runs from Ultrastar data center drives to WD Red and WD Purple drives for home servers and security cameras. WD makes its money selling these drives to cloud companies, PC makers, and retail shoppers. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California, and in 2025 it spun off its flash memory business as Sandisk.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1970

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