Specialist, Tooling Planning Engineer

About Pandora

Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.

About Pandora Production Vietnam

Pandora’s new jewellery crafting facility is located in the Vietnam–Singapore Industrial Park III (VSIP III), about 40 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. When fully scaled, the state-of-the-art facility will produce up to 60 million jewellery pieces annually and employ around 7,000 craftspeople. It is powered entirely by renewable energy and built to LEED Gold certification standards.

Main Purpose Of The Role

The Specialist, Tooling Planning Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, and monitoring tooling activities to ensure tooling readiness, availability, and capacity are aligned with production requirements, maintenance plans, and new product introduction activities. The role plays a key part in maximizing tooling utilization, minimizing production risks, and supporting operational excellence through effective tooling planning and resource management.

Key Accountabilities

1. Tooling Planning & Production Support

• Develop and manage tooling plans to ensure stamping dies, tooling components, and supporting fixtures are available to meet production schedules and business priorities.
• Coordinate tooling fabrication, modification, preventive maintenance, and repair activities to ensure tooling readiness and minimize production interruptions.
• Monitor tooling status and prioritize tooling requests based on production demand, operational risks, and resource availability.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, and Tooling teams to ensure timely and effective tooling support for manufacturing operations.

2. Tooling Capacity & Lifecycle Management

• Plan and monitor tooling capacity, manpower allocation, machine loading, and workshop resources to ensure efficient execution of tooling activities.
• Track tooling lifecycle, preventive maintenance schedules, refurbishment plans, and spare part requirements to maximize tooling reliability and availability.
• Coordinate replacement, refurbishment, and emergency repair activities for critical tooling to minimize downtime and production risks.
• Support long-term tooling capacity planning through demand forecasting, utilization analysis, and resource planning.

3. Tooling Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor and analyze tooling KPIs such as tooling availability, on-time completion, tooling lead time, and resource utilization.
• Identify recurring tooling-related issues and coordinate corrective and preventive actions with relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain tooling planning reports, dashboards, and tracking systems to improve visibility and decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance tooling planning processes, increase operational efficiency, and optimize tooling-related costs.

Requirement:

• Bachelor's Degree or above in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in tooling planning, tooling operations, engineering planning, production planning, manufacturing engineering, or related functions.
• Strong understanding of tooling fabrication, repair, modification, and maintenance processes.
• Experience in planning and coordinating resources within a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of tooling lifecycle management, preventive maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Experience working with production scheduling, workshop planning, or engineering project coordination.
• Familiarity with ERP systems and planning tools.
• Experience in jewelry manufacturing, precision manufacturing, stamping, metal forming, or similar industries is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, and Continuous Improvement methodologies is preferred.