Become part of the Converse Team
Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Converse, it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.
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Architects don't build buildings. And Designers don't build products. You do. The Development crew. It's all dreams and drawings without you. Getting things made takes time and manpower and testing and understanding. Deconstruction and reconstruction. It takes people capable of looking into the guts of the situation and saying: Yeah, we can do that. It's called Know-How. If you've got it, check us out.
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 ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
We are seeking a Senior Industrial Engineer to join our Functional Engineering team in Indonesia. This role will be critical in supporting Global Sourcing & Manufacturing's initiatives on Factory Efficiency Management, by working with Industrial Engineering (IE) function & factory partners to leverage IE & LEAN knowledge and tools, optimize the manufacturing process and eliminate production waste to achieve the efficiency target.
The role will take the lead in creating & maintaining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to manage factory partners' performance around efficiency by analyzing and identifying the inefficiency opportunities and taking corrective actions to elevate overall factory manufacturing efficiency, in collaboration with factory partners and Converse functions.
You will need to possess solid Industrial Engineer Lean knowledge and the ability to coach our IE team within our partner factories develop their capabilities and cultivate a continuous improvement culture.
You must be an effective communicator, team player, and out-of-the-box thinker who can work cross-functionally and independently to succeed in this role.
WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?
If this is you, you'll be spending around 70% (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 deliverables are achieved.
You will then 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 create & 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 master with a strong 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.
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