Manager, CI Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026.
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.
Job Summary:
Lead the continuous improvement engineering team in delivering production improvement projects. Collaborate with central and cross-functional departments on innovation projects that apply new technologies, techniques, and processes in production to support plant KPIs Include setup the production line.
Key accountabilities:
1. Strategic results
- Support the Senior Manager in driving strategic and tactical decisions for production units and align resources to deliver key functional objectives in line with company strategic goals.
- Support strategic projects across the company.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams for improvement and capacity-expansion projects, ensuring achievement, on-time delivery, and planned value.
2. Best-in-class manufacturing
Develop best-in-class jewelry production processes, maintain high production standards, and adopt best practices to ensure continuous improvement across production units.
3. Customer centricity
Support the Senior Manager in delivering the best of PANDORA through innovation, adoption of new manufacturing techniques, and adherence to design objectives.
4. Financial results
- Ensure low production cost, on-time delivery, and high production quality.
- Collaborate with Finance to develop business cases for improvement projects and ensure reasonable investment with maximum value.
- Plan and track CAPEX and OPEX spending against the approved budget.
5. Collaborative
- Engage stakeholders openly for critical activities, take accountability, and ensure effective collaboration across functions.
- Collaborate with other departments to align ways of working and support improvement, problem-solving, and new-product readiness.
- Assist production with urgent assignments by providing prompt actions and short- and long-term solutions.
- Support the Process Engineering team on tasks requiring long-term quality solutions.
- Assist production with 5S and Kaizen activities.
6. People and inspirational leadership
- Improve and sustain eNPS within the top quartile and build a strong internal leadership pipeline focused on developing local talent.
- Build a diverse, trust-based leadership team with strong collaboration across sub-functions.
- Coach team members to develop the required industrial engineering knowledge and skills, including Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and data analytics.
Requirement:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Management, or a related field.
- Experience in continuous improvement; Lean Six Sigma certification (Black Belt or higher) is preferred.
- Knowledge of various jewelry product types, production processes, automation, and machinery.
- Strong leadership, people management, and coaching skills.
- Experience in project management, performance monitoring, and evaluation.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work in a dynamic production environment with close attention to detail and effective monitoring.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage time and resources effectively.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proactive, results-oriented, and adaptable, with a can-do attitude.