Tuyển dụng Senior Innovation Project Engineer - Automation tại Khánh Hòa

About the company

Our client is an international British brand specialising in premium soft toys, operating in a technically complex manufacturing environment involving multiple plush fabrics of varied pile heights, many component parts and irregular patterns that rarely repeat.

Its dedicated innovation team runs an automation R&D programme with UK, European and Asian research partners, with real factory-floor impact. The team brings new machinery, automation and technology to partner factories to increase productivity and capacity, enable more complex designs and improve quality consistency and product safety, supporting growth rather than replacing jobs.

About the role

You will lead and drive the company's innovation and continuous improvement projects in Vietnam, from scoping through trials and ROI to deployment. The role focuses on new technology and project delivery, not lean or line balancing, which our partner factories' own teams lead.

It is project-based: scoping new machinery and systems, comparing suppliers, supporting set-up and trials, and building the data and ROI cases behind investment decisions.

• Working pattern: Hybrid, with 2–3 days/week at partner factory sites and the R&D test area, and the remaining days working from home
• Travel: Regular travel to partner factory sites (Central Area), occasional regional trade shows, and potentially visits to the UK office in future
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Key responsibilities

• Innovation project scoping and assessment
  • Identify, scope and assess automation opportunities across fabric handling, sewing, stuffing, finishing and packing, with the sewing line as the primary focus, for example, automated fabric handling, eye attachment, pull testing and machine vision inspection
  • Evaluate investment proposals and make clear recommendations
• Local project leadership
  • Manage factory-side aspects of the agreed innovation plan, timeline, budget and risks for multiple concurrent projects
  • Drive progress across partner factories, vendors and research partners, chasing actions and decisions
  • Flag issues and decisions early to the Operations Director
• Supplier and technology evaluation
  • Lead the technical aspects of supplier calls, and compare suppliers, technical specifications and options, bringing factory-floor knowledge
  • Define technical and operational requirements, translating factory challenges into clear use cases for vendors, universities and research institutes
  • Support technical discussions with universities and research institutes
• Trials and samples
  • Support the set-up of trials and pilot projects, including at the R&D test area
  • Arrange samples and production information for testing
  • Document results, issues and next steps
• Data and ROI
  • Help build a detailed, repeatable set of factory KPI data to inform automation and investment decisions
  • Gather and analyse data for ROI cases: task times, labour savings, reduced material handling and storage space, product safety and more consistent, objective quality
  • Assess the impact on SMV/AMV and current factory operations where a new project affects them
• Deployment and integration
  • Track partner factories' near-term automation projects using proven technology (for example AGVs and CTUs), including progress, issues and delivered ROI against plan
  • Identify where innovation research, such as late-stage fabric handling, can be integrated into these projects or into existing lines
  • Support the move from successful trials to production deployment, working with factory engineering and system integrators
• Collaboration
  • Work closely with the Vietnam Production Transformation team, and with partner factories' Process Improvement & Innovation teams (IE, SOP, IT) and engineering and maintenance departments
  • Build strong relationships with partner factories and understand their priorities and constraints
  • Report findings clearly to the Operations Director and international team

Yêu cầu ứng viên

• 8+ years in industrial, manufacturing or automation engineering, with a proven record of leading innovation, continuous improvement or automation projects from scoping to delivery
• Self-starter who drives projects with limited supervision in a small, remote team
• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics or a related discipline
• Essential: sewn-product/soft-goods experience, including hands-on industrial sewing or automation equipment trials
• Proven experience evaluating, specifying or implementing automation, machinery or production technology projects
• Strong data skills: building ROI/investment cases from factory data (time studies, SMV, Excel/Power BI or similar)
• Factory-floor credibility with operators and factory technical teams
• Fluent Vietnamese; strong spoken and written English for technical discussions and reporting
• Willing to travel regularly to partner factory sites

Preferred

• Familiarity with robotics, machine vision, sensors, PLCs, AGVs or conveyors
• Experience with AI/machine learning projects
• Experience working with automation vendors, universities, research institutes or innovation teams
• Experience in garment, textile, footwear, soft goods or other high-volume sewn-product manufacturing
• Experience with factory trials, pilot projects or technology assessments
• Project management training or certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2) or Agile experience
• Knowledge of Lean or Six Sigma

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