Customer Factory Industrial Engineering Manager

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. We design and develop labeling and functional materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving 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 2024 were $8.8 billion. Learn more at

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

This position can be based in Guangzhou China or Vietnam.

Job Description Summary:

The Customer Factory Industrial Engineering Manager is an expert level, hands-on role with the primary purpose to optimize value delivery to customers, in support of the development and deployment of embellishment applications and related automation solutions.

Key responsibility focus areas will include, but are not limited to:

• Support the definition of value propositions associated with Embelex solutions for factory customers and quantify associated performance metrics for value delivery and total cost of application.
• Understand and define the value drivers for specific solution applications, including critical to quality attributes, process lead time, productivity, sustainability and waste minimization.
• Support the ideation, development, deployment, and optimization stages of embellishments applications and solutions.
• Proactively collaborate with factory customers, product and solutions development, factory sales, technical sales, embellishments applications engineering, and manufacturing 4.0 as required.
• Support the improvement and standardization of Embelex applications and automation solutions at the customer factory.
• Supporting training development and delivery for customers.
• Ensure ongoing technology scouting and operational benchmarking.

Critical skill and capability areas, expectations for the role:

• Hands on operational industrial engineering and process improvement experience in garment production operations, including embellishments applications
• Skills and expertise for analyzing and improving existing production processes and systems, with the impact to manufacturing cost and lead time
• Skills and expertise for the design, development and deployment of new production solutions and systems
• Expertise associated with technologies used in garment, footwear, or other apparel production operations, including application of embellishments
• Project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across all levels of the organization
• Effective collaboration with team members at all levels
• Training and coaching others
• Basic business acumen
• Model and promote our Avery Dennison code of conduct, values and ethics
• Ability to travel when required to work at manufacturing locations

• Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or commensurate training and work experience
• Minimum 5 years work experience - in garment manufacturing operations with demonstrated engineering for application of technologies, operational process improvement, and problem solving

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