Production Assistant Manager

Company Description

Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company that provides a wide range of branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. Our products and solutions include labeling and functional materials, radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect thy physical and digital, and a variety of products and solutions that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving an array of industries worldwide - including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive - we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2023 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at  www.averydennison.com.

AVERY DENNISON IS PROUD TO BE CERTIFIED GREAT PLACE TO WORK IN AUSTRALIA, CHINA, INDIA, JAPAN, SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA, THAILAND AND VIETNAM, AND RECOGNIZE AS ONE OF THE BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN ASIA IN GREATER CHINA AND VIETNAM.

Job Description

This position provides leadership and production management in shift basis to ensure world class manufacturing principles are followed as well as production practices/KPIs are maintained and improved. This position will interact pro-actively with leadership team and implement all requirements down to shop floor. The incumbent is expected to actively participate in the benchmarking and sharing best practices among the Production Department in order to continuously improve the product supply capability.
This position provides a common standard of communication and engagement across the factory. They liaise closely with the core factory functions, including Manufacturing, HR, Quality and Safety to achieve this.

• Directly supervises employees in a Site to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools and equipment.
• Design and implement operations improvement strategies for safety, cost, quality, training, inventory, and services.
• Collaborate with other functional areas to resolve problems and develop improved manufacturing processes.
• Maintain quality control processes to ensure products/services meet quality standards; lead implementation of process improvements.
• Drive improvement strategies in all key metric areas; manage production flow, staffing schedule and resources to budget and plan.
• Ensure best practices and standard operating procedures are being followed by conducting frequent business audits.
• Ensure AM practices, 5S and discipline at shopfloor
• Lead improvement projects, ELS as specifics
• Closely working with Production planning control team to analyze the business status, proactively cooperate with Commercial Function and take action to achieve business target

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or above; Major in printing engineering, packaging or related;
• 5-8 years experiences in similar areas
• Strong leadership quality in accordance with Avery Dennison’s Leadership Principles.
• Inter-functional Business understanding and knowledge, Business Intuition (in production aspects).
• Special Skill: Knowledge and experiences in Enterprise Lean Sigma is very preferred.
• Technical Skill: Engineering/process knowledge on garment production, weaving or printing operations is preferred.
• Fluent in English is very preferred.
• Candidates must be able to analyze factory and technical processes in order to identify opportunities for performance improvement. Strong coaching skills are a pre-requisite; enquiring, supportive, challenging.

Additional Information

Provide supervision and implement all production activities following Avery Dennison’s Corporate Standard towards safety in order to produce high quality products to satisfy customer’s demand on products quality with lowest price and shortest delivery time.