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Unilever · Bangkok, Thailand

HCL Operations Lead

Bangkok, ThailandFull-timeManager or leadOperations

Listed on Unilever’s official careers site. Posted October 28, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.

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Job description

Working Location

Minburi Factory, Bangkok

Job Purpose

The Home Care Liquid (HCL) Operations Lead is a management professional with a good technical understanding of manufacturing, general engineering, and warehouse management & operations for total HCL Packing. To lead and manage a team of operators ensuring safety, quality, process engineer and efficiency standards are met. Moreover, this role is to lead the transformation project at Home Care Powder Production.

Main Responsibilities

  • Provide the governance function for a cluster of semi-autonomous teams, delivering management and leadership support for performance monitoring, overtime allocation, working patterns and dispute resolution.
  • Lead improvement projects for operational processes
  • Understand the factory’s financial situation and use the training in UMS methodologies and IP processes to drive the AM team’s work to counter losses and eradicate waste
  • Lead projects to support factory initiatives
  • Provide common standard of communication and engagement across the factory.
  • Liaise closely with the core factory functions, including Leadership Team of Manufacturing, HR, Quality and Safety to achieve this
  • Oversee daily production activities, troubleshoot issues, and ensure targets are met

Candidate Criteria Experience & Qualification

  • Engineering education background
  • Possess managerial experiences for at least 5 years
  • Have practical experience of applying autonomous maintenance strategies within manufacturing, general engineering, preferably FMCG
  • Experienced working a fast-paced, dynamic and complex setting
  • Must be able to converse in English
  • Strong coaching, influencing and leadership skills
  • Knowledge of the end-to-end manufacturing processes relevant of:
  • Preventative maintenance schemes and condition monitoring
  • Principal factory controls (e.g. for HPC; spray drying, soap making, batch & continuous mixing of liquids and bottle, sachet, bar and pouch filling machinery)

Note

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life!

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment journey. If you require any support to complete your application or any subsequent stage throughout your recruitment journey with us at Unilever, then please specify how we may be able to assist you. Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities.

We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bring ing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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