Manufacturing Excellence Engineer

About the role

The Manufacturing Excellence Engineer will drive overall factory efficiency through line balancing, layout improvements, and skill development. The role focuses on right‑first‑time quality, cost optimisation and empowering vendors with lean and digital tools.

Key responsibilities

• Govern and deploy the Continuous Improvement Playbook across partner factories, ensuring compliance with standards and methodologies.
• Conduct factory assessments using the ME Scorecard, identify gaps, and develop corrective action road‑maps.
• Design and deliver training modules on critical path management, TQMS, lean, Six Sigma and industrial engineering tools.
• Lead Kaizen, lean and Six Sigma projects, perform value‑stream mapping and root‑cause analysis to reduce waste and improve productivity.
• Promote digitalisation initiatives such as ERP, MES, RFID, AI and robotics to enhance quality and reduce costs.

Required profile

• Strong knowledge of garment construction, materials and factory processes.
• Proven experience (5‑10 years) in industrial engineering, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement in apparel.
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate with vendors and internal teams.
• Proficiency in English; Mandarin is a plus.
• Data modelling and analytics capability, GSD practitioner preferred.

Required skills

• MS Office Suite
• PLM
• Power‑Bi
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (or Lean and Six Sigma)
• ERP Systems
• MES Solutions
• RFID technology
• AI and Data Analytics
• GSD Practitioner