Production Engineer

1. Process Optimization & Workflow Management

• Streamline Operations: Analyze and map contemporary jewelry manufacturing workflows (from Jewelry Bench and casting to soldering, plating, and stone-setting) to eliminate structural bottlenecks and reduce total turnaround lead times.
• Capacity Planning & Scheduling: Balance, track, and optimize daily factory production loads to dynamically meet retail boutique stocks, e-commerce fulfillment, and strict seasonal campaign deadlines.
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Develop, document, and enforce standard work instructions for bench jewelers, artisans, and finishing technicians to achieve absolute design repeatability.

1. Quality Assurance & Precious Material Control

• Quality Gates: Establish and govern strict quality control checkpoints throughout the end-to-end production cycle to catch and minimize defects long before final polishing.
• Precious Metal Reconciliation: Implement rigorous tracking systems to monitor fine metal scrap, refining losses, and chemical consumption, ensuring absolute accountability for gold, silver, and brass stocks.
• Root Cause Analysis: Investigate recurring design defects or structural vulnerabilities in finished pieces and implement permanent mechanical or process corrective actions.

1. Equipment, Maintenance & Safety

• Asset Management: Oversee the preventive maintenance, calibration, and operational uptime of factory machinery (e.g. induction casting machines, polishing lathes, laser welders, and electroplating tanks).
• Safety & Environmental Compliance: Enforce strict health and safety protocols, specifically covering chemical handling in plating areas, hazardous waste disposal, and micro-particle ventilation systems in polishing rooms.

1. Costing & Cross-Functional Design Collaboration

• Product Costing & BOM: Partner intimately with the Design and Finance teams to compile accurate Bill of Materials (BOM), calculating chemical, metal, and labor costs for upcoming collections.
• Design for Manufacturing (DFM): Collaborate with creative designers early in the lifecycle to ensure complex, avant-garde jewelry concepts can be reliably and efficiently mass-produced without compromising artistic integrity.

Education & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related manufacturing discipline.
• Experience: 3–5 years of professional experience as a Production, Process, or Industrial Engineer. Experience in jewelry manufacturing is advantageous, but we highly encourage applications from engineers with backgrounds in parallel precision-driven industries.

Technical & Functional Competencies

• Methodologies: Strong operational understanding of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S framework, and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
• Software Systems: Proficiency in utilizing ERP/MRP systems for production tracking, routing, and inventory forecasting.
• Data Literacy: Advanced analytical capacity; advanced Excel/Google Sheets modeling skills are strictly required.