Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia
James Chuan is a seasoned Project Manager with over 16 years of extensive experience leading complex, multimillion-dollar construction and engineering projects within the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, solar, and manufacturing industries. Proven expertise in full-cycle project execution from planning and budgeting to commissioning and handover while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and compliance. Key Areas of Expertise: • Project Management Expertise: Skilled in leading cross-disciplinary teams including engineers, subcontractors, and suppliers to deliver high-value projects on time and within budget. Strong organizational and leadership abilities ensure project alignment with strategic objectives and operational requirements. • Financial Acumen & Cost Control: Adept at budget allocation, cost forecasting, and financial analysis for large-scale projects, ensuring effective resource utilization and maximizing profitability for stakeholders. • Timeline & Resource Management: Track record of delivering projects in accordance with detailed schedules, optimizing workforce deployment, and managing concurrent priorities without compromising deliverables. • Client-Focused & Compliance-Driven: Committed to delivering professional, high-quality outcomes that meet client requirements, industry codes, and environmental health and safety standards. Maintains a proactive approach to quality assurance and regulatory compliance throughout all project phases James Chuan is a result-driven leader known for his strategic thinking, problem-solving abilities and unwavering focus on project success.
- Overall construction for project around 5 billion - Manage multiple projects at a time across functional areas and stakeholders while optimizing solutions. Partner and collaborate successfully with key stakeholders including, facility owners, functional area managers, tool owners, global supply management, central design, site construction and suppliers. - Manage day-to-day Functional Area Tool Install construction operations using lean principles to ensure a safe and quality work environment without interruptions to factory operations. - Translate business and technical requirements into project designs that enable affordable and constructible solutions. - Lead and successfully manage Tool Install projects to enable Intel businesses including new Fab modules, Fab conversions, Tool Installations, and special building projects. - Attend weekly team meetings and daily TI ops meetings - Develop documented project install plans for each tool, using the Last Planner™ system to improve co-ordination between all stakeholders. - Assign workload and specific tools to each Project Engineer in their area. - To Coordinate prompt resolution of field issues to maximize contractor’s productivity. - Coordination between tool install and other stakeholders. - Understand and facilitate the change control process. - Manage Bullet proofing process. - Owns safety within their Functional Area (“FA”), coaching for Safe Behavior's, participating in safety reports and audits. - Be familiar with the Safety Plan of each trade in the area and ensure trade workers adhere to it. - Promote zero-rework mindset within FA by ensuring implementation of the trade quality programs and client standard QA/QC procedures. - Generate weekly daily progress reports.
Posted to Micron Memory Malaysia Sdn Bhd – Batu Kawan Penang Construction Engineer – Water and Gas • Overall construction project phase 2 around 2 billion • Manages Facilities Engineering construction, Design change, and Planning, provide high quality Engineering services and specifications for the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of Water Supply, RODI & WWTP, Gas discipline specific Facilities systems in support of Semiconductor Manufacturing. • Taking design input from Global Facility Technology Team (GFTT) and Micron MMP Facilities team to ensure capture in design drawing and specification. • Inspects construction and installation progress for conformance to established drawings, specifications, and schedules. • Coordinating mechanical system installation construction according to design and specification, manage design change due to site constraint, ensuring documentation submission approval such as shop drawing, equipment submittal, construction drawing, T&C method statement & plan, as-built drawing, O&M manual, cleanroom certification, sensor certificate in-place, warranty tracking. • Manage all Water and Gas system issues during concept design, detailed design, procurement, bidding, manufacturing, delivery, and installation on site. • Provide system design for safe, reliable, and efficient operations & maintenance; Provide and prepare all types of documents including statement of work (SOW), concept designs, drawing, factory test and acceptance documents, final startup/commissioning reports and review and acceptance of as-builts and submittals • Ensure Quality Assurance and Control (QAQC) of project deliverables, execute construction completed works is in proper condition and meet the requirement of specifications & function. • Perform systems Test & Commissioning in accordance with requirement of Construction document and guarding the Owner against defects and deficiencies in the works
• To Managed few accounts of client to support small project general contracting (SPGC) to about 10 million. • To provided solutions/ proposal/ and technical supports • To manage budgetary; cost control; project management and project execution in order to provide the best beneficial to company. • To ensure project construction schedule meet the timeline for each project. • To review project status, submit invoice and delivery orders based on project completion to client • Managed a team of 7 pax engineer and safety personnel to ensure projects coordination accordingly. Posted to WD Media (M) Sdn Bhd – Penang, Malaysia • Managed small project general contracting (SPGC) to about 10 million • Managed material inventory to ensure tools installation and ad hoc installation by client • Managed budgetary; cost control to ensure company obtain the most profitable profit • Ensure tools installation meet the timeline given by client • Review project status, submit invoice and delivery orders based on project completion claimed by client Posted to TF AMD Microelectronics Sdn Bhd – Penang, Malaysia • Managed small project general contracting (SPGC) to about 2 million projects in total • Managed material inventory to ensure tools installation and ad hoc installation by client • Managed budgetary; cost control to ensure company obtain the most profitable profit • Ensure tools installation meet the timeline given by client • Review project status, submit invoice and delivery orders based on project completion claimed by client
Posted to Osram Opto Semiconductors (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd – Kulim FEK1 • Managed tools hookup for about 10 million project in 500 wafer per week startup which involve with tool foundation; electrical; exhaust and utilities – gaseous, process cooling water; ultra-pure water, process vacuum. • Managed material inventory to ensure tools installation and ad hoc installation by client • Managed budgetary; cost control to ensure company obtain the most profitable profit • Ensure tools installation meet the timeline given by client • Review project status, submit invoice and delivery orders based on project completion claimed by client Posted to Osram Opto Semiconductors (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd – Penang PEN31/32 • Managed hookup and base built project about 10 million for tools installation for UX3 2000 Batch 1 and Batch 2; 2000W CE and 2500W CE • Managed material inventory to ensure tools installation and ad hoc installation by client • Managed budgetary; cost control to ensure company obtain the most profitable profit • Ensure tools installation meet the timeline given by client • Review project status, submit invoice and delivery orders based on project completion claimed by client