Environmental Scan 2017: Human Capital Issues within the Medical Devices Sector
Outsourced Workers
Most of the outsourced production workers are engaged to work as plant and machine operators or assemblers, and more than half of these outsourced production workers are non-Malaysians.
Figure 3-14: Breakdown of outsourced workers by job category, Dec 2016
2 % 2 %
TOTAL
2 %
( n = 19, representing 2,082 outsourced production workers)
Surgical / Medical Gloves
( n = 2, representing 200 outsourced production workers)
1 % 1 %
Other Medical Consumables
( n = 10, representing 1,042 outsourced production workers)
100 %
94 %
98 %
56 % are non-Malaysians
Non-consumables
3 % 4 % 5 %
( n = 7, representing 840 outsourced production workers)
Managers & professionals Craft and related trades workers
88 %
Technicians & associate professionals Plant & machine operators and assemblers
3.1.2 Job Vacancies Breakdown by industry segment
There were 1,412 full time job vacancies available in the 68 surveyed companies as of December 2016, which average out at 21 vacancies per company.
The surgical / medical gloves segment had the highest average vacancies per company at 60. Around two-thirds of these vacancies were for job category stationary plant and machine operators, which is also the job category with the highest number of employees in this segment. Nevertheless, the ratio of vacancies in relation to total workforce needs for this job category in the segment was 7 %( i. e. there were 7 job vacancies in every 100 positions needed for this job category), which is still within an acceptable range.
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