Senior Industrial Engineer - Converse

SENIOR, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER - CONVERSE
NINH BINH, NORTH VIETNAM
ABOUT CONVERSE
Are you interested in working for the most iconic and well-loved sneaker brand in the world? Born in sports and made for the street, Converse is a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. We seek people who can lead, grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. Converse seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Converse, it is about each person bringing their authentic self, skills, and passion to serve the daring spirit of youth.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
The goals of the Converse Global Sourcing & Manufacturing team are to Deliver Product Excellence, bringing to life and to market products that blow away consumer expectations and create the Manufacturing Network of the Future with capabilities to support our business. We believe this is possible by partnering with best-in-class manufacturers and investing in the right talent to:
Build capabilities to create innovative products that push the boundaries of our brand.
Deploy responsive supply chain solutions that improve speed and deliver meaningful commercial impact.
Advance the resilience and sustainability of our supply chain through partner, performance, and risk management approaches.
Constantly improve our operational model to improve service, efficiency, cost, and quality
Live our values and put people first to drive organizational effectiveness.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
You will be the point person for the Industrial Engineering (IE) function who manages factory partners in North Vietnam, and support a large, diverse team of Converse with Industrial Engineer/Lean expertise and report to Manager, Industrial Engineering Global - Converse, based in China.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
If this is you, you will be spending around 80% (or more) of your working time in factories, initially learning the processes and products, building strong connections with the team, and then driving and supporting the factory team to identify short-term, mid-term, and long-term efficiency strategies. You will also be responsible for coaching and providing expertise for factory partners' efficiency improvement initiatives to ensure key deliveries are made.
You will take the lead in initiating, managing, and implementing Optimization & Manufacturing excellence projects that can deliver measurable contributions through increased manufacturing efficiency and speed while embedding Industrial Engineer & Lean Manufacturing Principles to enable sustainable improvements.
You will support creating & refine metrics to measure manufacturing efficiency performance and drive for optimization, ensuring KPI data is properly tracked and managed.
You will facilitate workshops or ideation sessions by leveraging Lean methodology/tools, to identify process wastes, to develop and implement corrective actions.
You will be the IE/Lean expert with an adequate ability to develop the factory Industrial Engineering team's technical capabilities through effective IE/Lean training and support factory partners in building a culture of continuous improvement and manufacturing excellence.
You will also take the lead to support new factories ramping up, setting up production lines in a more efficient and adapted way based on product needs; assessing equipment and machine layouts, workflow, and safety precautions to maximize utilization of plant and manufacturing facilities.
Besides, you will support Converse functions projects or company initiatives focused on efficiency study & improvement, including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Digital transformation, Labor Utilization, Hourly Capacity, and Pairs per Person per Hour (PPH).