Executive recruitment company Monroe Consulting Group Indonesia is recruiting on behalf of a leading multinational company with a core focus on electrical manufacturing. As expansion continues, our client is seeking a professional with at least twenty years' experience in smart factory automation in a multinational company for the job of Regional Smart Factory & Automation Leader. The job is based in Batam, Indonesia.
Key job responsibilities include:
- Direct report to the Director
- Architect of change: lead and govern shopfloor digitization initiatives across 10+ smart factories in alignment with the MMR framework.
- Define and execute the regional smart factory roadmap, ensuring consistency, scalability, and sustainability of solutions.
- Serve as the regional SME for smart manufacturing, advising sites on solution design, technology selection, and deployment strategies.
- Act as the deployment leader of smart factory solution roll outs, pilots, and scale-up of smart factory solutions, ensuring adherence to timelines, scope, and business value.
- Enforce global standard solutions (Best of breeds) within the factories in the region along
- Be part of Design authority influencing the evolution of best of breeds with respect to regional needs.
- Serve as an Automation SME and provide expertise on line automation activities, physical automation (AMR, ASRS, VLM etc) within the factory
- Drive adoption of best-of-breed shopfloor solutions rather than monolithic platforms, ensuring interoperability and future readiness
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or related field
- 20+ years of experience in manufacturing, digital transformation, smart factory, or industrial automation roles.
- Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-factory digitization programs in hyper agile environments
- Exposure to global or regional manufacturing operations is strongly preferred.
- Measurable improvements in operational KPIs (DLP, CSC, OEE, Quality parameters)
- High adoption and satisfaction from factory and leadership stakeholders
- Establishment of the region as a benchmark for smart manufacturing excellence
- Hands-on familiarity with high-mix, low-volume or high-volume electronics production.
- Electronics manufacturing processes (SMT, DIP, testing, box-build)
- Excellent communication and customer-facing presentation skills.
- Strong leadership of cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- High sense of ownership, urgency, and problem-solving capability.
- Able to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
