Specialist, Continuous Improvement Engineer

About Pandora
Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.
About Pandora Production Vietnam
Pandora's new jewellery crafting facility is located in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park III (VSIP III), about 40 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. When fully scaled, the state-of-the-art facility will produce up to 60 million jewellery pieces annually and employ around 7,000 craftspeople. It is powered entirely by renewable energy and built to LEED Gold certification standards.
Main purpose of the role:
In the role of looking for, analyzing and testing, and implementing into practice new materials, techniques, machine and method as well as new technologies to enhance production and meet plant KPIs. Furthermore, consistently utilizing technical and engineering skills in the workplace.
Key accountabilities:
1. Strategic results
Understanding and received policies from management to comply with the strategy to deliver key functional objectives in alignment
Create and Execution project to deliver Plant/Company KPI (Productivity, Cost, Quality, FROT, Lead time).
Understanding current and new machine performance/specification for enhancement/development/improvement.
2. Best-in-class manufacturing
Received polices to continue producing best-in-class jewelry and implement best practices to ensure consistency across production units.
New initiative process / Tooling for deliver Plant /company KPI.
Monitor and audits the performance of processes and equipment and makes recommendations for continuous improvement necessary to maximize process capability.
Investigate, recommend and justify new technologies, manufacturing methods and equipment to meet competitive business needs and improve efficiencies.
Create and sustain the optimize layout and workflow for expand capacity/ capability.
Support testing and provide technical information to related team for alternative sources both material per assigned.
Applying Lean Six Sigma(LSS) knowledge in the project(s).
Create and define new working procedure, key process control.
3.Customer centricity
Support manager and deliver the best of PANDORA, innovate & adopt new manufacturing techniques and stay true to design objectives.
4.Financial results
Ensure low production cost, on-time delivery, and high production quality.
Project management and budget control of each project.
5.Collaborative
Openly engage stakeholders for critical activities. Take responsibility and ensure effective collaboration with all functions.
Coordinate with key person of each section to participate and support project activities.
Interpersonal skill set to coordinate with many types of people to achieve target.
Work with vendors and internal resources to determine product specifications and arranges for purchase and installation of equipment, materials or parts for new products.
Requirement
Bachelor's degree or higher in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field.
Good computer skills (MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI etc.)
At least 2-3 Year experience in Continuous Improvement
Project management and Budget control
Good problem solving, analytical thinking and project management
Good coordination and communication skills both in Vietnamese and English
Green belts certify is preferred
Able work well under high pressure within limited timeline