The Opportunity:
This Senior Manufacturing Engineer is responsible for all the decoration processes including spray painting, tampo printing and DIJ (Direct Inkjet Printing). This role ensures decoration quality stability, process validation, defect troubleshooting, and continuous improvement to support FG vendors (located in China, Vietnam and India). There is same role in our O&O plant – MCA which the Manufacturing Manager is leading the Senior Engineer to complete the appearance decorations of products.
Technical & Engineering Excellence
- Provide decoration process standardization for co-man vendors.
- To support co-man vendors to drive for improvements such as reduce throw-off, optimize the cycle time and improve output
- Provide technical training to improve the technical skillsets
Leadership & Team Development
- Provide technical support to the co-man vendors engineering team.
- Work closely with Co-man Team, MOA Engineering Team, O/O plants & Co-man vendors
Cross-Functional Influence
- Act as the core technical interface and key influencer across multi-functional teams including production, quality, engineering and tooling vendors.
- Proactively align process standardization such as “Best Practice with O/O plants”
- Support location includes China, Vietnam and India plus O/O plant – Montoi Bricks
Budget Control
- Manage the OH & deliver saving to the company
Culture & Continuous Improvement
- Establish a LEAN culture and drive continuous improvement in daily activities
- A decoration technical engineer with deep expertise in decoration engineering organization.
- Can support a team of process engineers in co-man vendors to solve technical problem.
- A LEAN – minded leader to drive continuous improvement in operation activities.
- Able to identify improvement ideas and working with the team to implement the application in production run
- Engineering Background with solid hand-on experience in Decoration Processes.
- Prefer to have Mattel working experience
- Able to set up the decoration processes including spray painting, tampo printing and DIJ
- Strong communication skills and able to work effectively as part of a team.
- Good English specking and writing skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills, good communication skills and project management capacity.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Mattel, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and a culture of belonging. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
How We Work:
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- We collaborate: Being a part of Mattel means being part of one team with shared values and common goals. Every person counts and working closely together always brings better results. Partnership is our process and our collective capabilities is our superpower.
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Our Approach to Flexible Work:
We embrace a flexible work model designed to empower a culture of growth, optimism, and wellbeing, where every employee can reach their full potential. Combining purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility, our focus is to optimize performance and drive connection for moments that matter.
Who We Are:
Mattel is a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world. We engage consumers and fans through our franchise brands, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, Fisher-Price, American Girl, Thomas & Friends, UNO, Masters of the Universe, Matchbox, Monster High, MEGA and Polly Pocket, as well as other popular properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include toys, content, consumer products, digital and live experiences. Our products are sold in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.
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