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Lim Siok Chan Raymond

Lim Siok Chan Raymond

Summary

Over a decade of intensive overseas working experience with US-based MNCs, Singapore-based SMEs, and China/Hong Kong-based EMS companies. Demonstrated leadership in manufacturing operations, encompassing material management, logistics, engineering, quality control, project management, mold and tooling, customs, administration, human resources, and account management. Proven expertise in project management, having led a team of over 20 project managers and successfully launched more than 12 projects concurrently.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Global Project Management

Season Group
07.2022 - 09.2022
  • Joined Season Group as Director of Global Project Management in July 2022 reporting directly to CEO
  • Managing global site of project management team of 14 on the following scope: - Development of New Project Introduction procedure, Development of Project management tool (NPI template), Setup KPIs and measuring for Project Management team, Soft Launch of Project management tools (Zoho), Launching of New Project introduction program in various site (Reynosa, Mexico – 12 NPIs, Penang, Malaysia – 4 NPIs, Dongguan, China – 28 NPIs, Havant, UK – 1 NPI), Took up Interim GM role for Malaysia Site, P&L responsibilities for Site operational performance, Steam-line Business for Thermoforming operation, Expansion of EMS business

Vice President of operation

Ryder Industrial
01.2015 - 02.2022
  • Joined Ryder in April 2015 as Special assistance to VP, Operation (Now CEO of Ryder Industrial) and General Manager for Specialty & consumable Business unit
  • Managing Customer Focus team of 35 staff on the following scope: - Demand and Order Fulfilment, Organic growth with existing customer base, Material planning and fulfilment, New Product Introduction (NPI) launch, Customer Satisfaction and (Value add Value Engineering) VAVE program, Product Profit & Loss (P&L) Ownership
  • Promoted to VP, Operation in December 2015, responsible for Shenzhen site
  • Extend responsibilities to include Jiangxi, Xin Feng County site in November 2016
  • Owning Full responsibility of Operation of Ryder Manufacturing facility.

Senior Manager (Business Unit) Manager

Flextronics (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • Account undertakes: Schneider Electric
  • Responsibilities: Developing and managing the plant’s manufacturing operations to meet OTD at the optimum level of productivity and quality
  • Leads CFT team to achieve KPIs e.g., Quality / Delivery / Customer Satisfaction / OP / ITO / AR
  • Managed day to day operational matters with facility functions include Business excellence / Planning /Production / Engineering / Quality / Supply Chain
  • Sponsor of Continuous improvement programs thru’ workshop, Kaizen, tasking to improve productivity, capacity & technological capabilities internally and externally
  • Monthly / Quarterly Financial review
  • Account information: Annual revenue: USD120mil, Business type: HMLV, Customer sites: 8 sites, Size of business: 55% of site total revenue, Work-cell size: 1100 DL; 200 IDL

Business Unit Manager

Jabil Circuit (Guangzhou) Ltd. Jabil Circuit (Singapore) Ltd.
01.2006 - 01.2011
  • Account undertakes: TPODC / VISTEON /Camera Module / Live-scribe / Dell Mobile / B&O (Ice-power) / HPN
  • Responsibilities: Co-ordinate development of all aspects of quotations including manufacturing, materials, test, packaging and tooling
  • Exercise final authority to establish any cost assumption or pricing position contained in any quotation
  • Monitor and execute the daily production of all assemblies within the account
  • This includes ensuring timely delivery, quality, process conformance, and test procedure
  • Exercise complete responsibility and authority over all changes to any assembly in the account including volumes, schedules, engineering changes, and all other unforeseen variations to a project
  • Negotiate contracts and continually evaluate risk versus reward
  • Assess the quality of customer relationships and exercise the authority to terminate those relationships when necessary
  • Drive cost reductions for any assembly in account through alternate material sourcing evaluations, manufacturing effectiveness evaluations, tooling design reviews and design evaluations
  • Provide accurate financial projections to the site and corporate of the account
  • Promote Business Unit’s interests internally through participation or co-ordination at site meetings
  • Specifically: Operations: JOS, Production Meetings, Monthly Management Meetings, Finance: Weekly Indicator, Forecast Reviews, Monthly Variance Meeting, Business: Quarterly Dog Show
  • Coach, lead and mentor Business Unit Coordinators and work cell members with positive attitude and administer performance reviews
  • Set clear and objective goals and expectations for the Work-cell team
  • Support Global BUD/VP in strategies to grow the account
  • Role at Camera Module was to focus on business Growth with Motorola ODMs (Wistron / Askey / IAC), Frequent travel to Taiwan to have interaction with customer to layout product transfer/ NPL milestones
  • Successfully establish strong bonded relationship with ODMs and Motorola’s Program management to launch Mass Production for several Key programs
  • Team and organized to support a fast turn-around business from Dell Mobile where product is targeted for China Mobile 3G phone
  • Turn around Crisis situation for B&O (Ice power Division) to meet customer financial year closing and steam line operation
  • Engaged new Business from Live-scribe and supporting initial business activities.

Senior Program Manager

Venture Corporation Ltd.
01.1992 - 01.2006
  • Responsibilities: Single point of contact to customers in meeting their requirements in delivery, quality and administering of engineering changes
  • Work and co-ordinate with the internal resources to provide support to customers for order fulfillment and new project start-up e.g., Greening & cost reduction program
  • Interface with various levels of management within the organization
  • Extensive interaction with assigned accounts to manage routine business and operations matters
  • Perform regular follow-up with customers to understand their changing requirements to develop and maintain excellent customer’s relationship and general business contacts
  • Provide SWOT Analysis on accountable customer base
  • Develop detailed project plans to drive and communicate project milestones for support engineers and management
  • Responsible for transferring an overseas project to China while overseeing existing business e.g., Automotive product transfer from Detroit, Michigan to Shanghai, China
  • Monitor and track progress of project in order to meet customer's requested schedule; areas to oversee include material availability, engineering readiness, production equipment and production personnel preparation, manpower allocation and quality assurance
  • Monitor and control program financial performance metrics (AR Aging / Excess inventories.) Participates in Profit and Loss (P&L) analysis, responsible for tracking relevant metrics and drive action items based on results
  • Primary communication source between factory and external contacts, and within the factory Customer Focus Team
  • Leader of Customer Focus Team, assessing overall performance, identifying risk, and recommendations for improvement
  • Directs and coordinates activities of customer focus team and required support areas to ensure program progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget
  • Ensure New Product Introduction (NPI) to launch at right time and right cost
  • Develop Quarterly Business Reviews
  • Project management on a world-wide basis
  • Coordinate and communicate with Asia (Singapore/Malaysia/China) and USA where needed
  • Frequent Business travel to Asia and US on Short Notice
  • Primary contact for negotiations with customer on all contracts (MSA), pricing and other business terms
  • Responsible for customer satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) collection and reviews and corrective actions
  • Prepares program reports and presentations for management, client or others.

Associate Engineer to Engineer

Siemens-Nixdorf Information system
01.1991 - 01.1992
  • Responsibilities: BOM created for new Product Introduction, Process planning and Jigs & fixture designing, Yield improvement task force member, Production Layout / Line Balancing for productivity improvement, Interface with intercompany cross functional to meet Product Launch Dateline

Design Engineer

Allen Bradley (Rockwell Corp.)
01.1990 - 01.1991
  • Responsibilities: Design Print Pattern for network Resistor and Chip resistor to achieve (100% -110% of the desired Value, following Laser Trimming Process will trim the product to its specified Value
  • Track and Improve on Production Equipment efficiency e.g
  • Conformal coating / Wave Soldering / Reflow Oven/ Backend Process Customized Equipment’s…etc
  • Responsible to evaluate new Resistor Paste and ceramics Substrates, Cost reduction Program on Production Jig and Fixtures ( e.g
  • Silkscreen Stencil)

Technical Specialist

Hewlett Packard Singapore
01.1989 - 01.1990
  • Responsibilities: Undertake Automation project to link 5 machineries in serial for thru’ put process
  • Maintenance on Production Equipment (Trim& Form machine / wire Bonder / Die Attaching / UV Cure / Oven) Setup new line facility for new Product Launch including Jig & fixtures design
  • Equipment calibration and sequence programming
  • Monitor and improve production Yield related to Production Tooling / process
  • Setup Preventive maintenances program for all production Machine and setup spare part program.

Technician to Assistant Engineer

MiniScribe Peripherals Pte Ltd
01.1988 - 01.1989
  • Responsibilities: Support Class 100 Clean room Production for Hard Disk Drive Assembly, Task Force Member to perform Failure Analysis and yield Improvement, Design Jig & Fixtures for Clean Room Production, Prepare Assembly procedures, New Parts / Process evaluation

Education

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Skills

Project Management

Overseasexperiences

  • Detroit, Michigan, 2002, 2005
  • Fremont, California, 2005, 2006
  • Guangzhou, Republic of China, 2006, 2010
  • Batam, Indonesia, 2013, 2015
  • Shenzhen/Jiangxi, Republic of China, 2015, 2022 Feb
  • Reynosa, Mexico, 2022
  • Penang, Malaysia, 2022

Languageswritten

  • English
  • Chinese

Contacts

+65 84998588, raysclim@gmail.com

Personal Information

  • Total Experience: 20 years EMS experiences
  • Age: 55
  • Date of Birth: 05/01/68
  • Nationality: Singaporean
  • Marital Status: Married

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin)
Advanced (C1)
Chinese (Cantonese)
Intermediate (B1)
English
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Director of Global Project Management

Season Group
07.2022 - 09.2022

Vice President of operation

Ryder Industrial
01.2015 - 02.2022

Senior Manager (Business Unit) Manager

Flextronics (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
01.2013 - 01.2015

Business Unit Manager

Jabil Circuit (Guangzhou) Ltd. Jabil Circuit (Singapore) Ltd.
01.2006 - 01.2011

Senior Program Manager

Venture Corporation Ltd.
01.1992 - 01.2006

Associate Engineer to Engineer

Siemens-Nixdorf Information system
01.1991 - 01.1992

Design Engineer

Allen Bradley (Rockwell Corp.)
01.1990 - 01.1991

Technical Specialist

Hewlett Packard Singapore
01.1989 - 01.1990

Technician to Assistant Engineer

MiniScribe Peripherals Pte Ltd
01.1988 - 01.1989

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Lim Siok Chan Raymond