COSTING ENGINEER (Hanoi)
Work Location: Ha Noi
Job type: Full-Time
Posted: 14-04-2022
Salary: Competitive
Email: thuy.pham@40hrs.vn
Job Description
About this team
Our Costing team is part of the liaison office (LLO). Together with global production and merchandising, quality, business solutions and product creation teams, it's to ensure our components are produced of the highest quality, delivered when we need them, and manufactured with partners who share our commitment to elevating the world.
The team owns the analytics related to costing and comprehends the underlying issues that create complexity for the vendors and the production process. They also support productivity and efficiency by providing leadership and direction to their partners, minimising waste and enhancing operations, and using proven industrial engineering techniques to achieve competitive advantage and improve quality and productivity.
A day in the life:
- Be the industrial engineering expert for global production and sourcing to execute costing excellence projects through best practices and continuous improvement activities with our suppliers and cross-functional partners
- Identify and evaluate problems, implement efficiency opportunities such as SMV & material usage and develop improvements on production, efficient material utilisation
- Develop and maintain efficiency by building up short/mid/long-range plans to deliver measurable and sustainable improvement in manufacturing costs, following global production, and sourcing strategy
- Identify and evaluate cost improvement opportunities within the production environment, track all data of cost improvement initiatives
- Ensure improvements are sustained through the introduction of work instructions, workplace organisation, quality standards, training records and performance measurement
- Collaborate with factories as an external consultant to make recommendations to industrial engineering and costing teams to improve costing processes
- Adapt new technology, machinery processes and execute the best production methods to impact cost from poor quality
- Perform feasibility studies of various projects to determine the value of potential opportunities for the business
- Execute industrial engineering techniques and drive change to exist processes with increased productivity/ efficiency to reduce cost
- Implement the industrial engineering concept to both company and vendors to improve the operations management and meet seasonal goals
Job Requirements
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of experience working closely and building relationships with offshore manufacturers
- You are an expert industrial engineer in apparel manufacturing, able to do operation bulletin, calculate SMV and do line balancing to improve efficiencies inline
- You have a GSD certification and can challenge manufacturing suppliers in SMV and the best methods
- You are the expert in the cutting and finishing process of apparel/accessories items, can measure and calculate material consumption, and read specifications of products
- You are a multi-task master and can handle multiple projects working with a variety of cross-functional partners
- You are confident in your strengths, always open to challenges and prefer negotiating face to face
- MS Excel and PowerPoint are your best friend, and you love to have fun and sweat!
Must haves:
- Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
- Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
- Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
- Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
- Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
- Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
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