HCL Operations Lead

Unilever is hiring an HCL Operations Lead in Bangkok, Thailand. Level rates it ; you can apply on Unilever.

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The posting mentions manufacturing operations, warehouse management and team leadership among its tools and skills.
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HCL Operations Lead manages manufacturing, general engineering, and warehouse operations at the Bangkok Minburi Factory.

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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)

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How we rate this

HCL Operations Lead at Unilever rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

HCL Operations Lead is an open job at Unilever.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in Bangkok, Thailand.
The job was posted on October 28, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Unilever. Apply on Unilever

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Manufacturing OperationsWarehouse ManagementTeam LeadershipProcess ImprovementAutonomous Maintenance

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