Sr. Engineering Manager

Job Description

We are hiring an Senior Engineering Manager in JIA, this will play a key role in driving innovation, qualification, efficiency, and quality within the packing technology domain. Focus of your broader team will be to enhance automation, digitalization, and continuous improvement while ensuring sustainable and resilient supply chain practices.

Play your part in our team succeeding

By activetly participating in P&P innovation, qualification, and capability development initiatives, the team supports delivering efficient and high quality packing technology and packaging solutions. The department plays active role advancements in automation, digitalization, and processes.

As JIA Engineering Sr. Manager, your leadership supports strategic P&P technology development, fortifying the technology foundation for packaging operations. Through collaboration with internal R&D areas, external partners, and global production sites, the role ensures engagement on exciting innovation deployment within The LEGO Group. This position is vital in empowering the company to provide innovative, dependable, and sustainable packaging at scale.

Core responsibilities:

• Supports shaping the technology foundation for packaging operations by leading, developing, and allocating engineering team resources to prioritized P&P activities aligned with the long-term business strategy. This includes driving the adoption of new automation tools to improve efficiency.
• Builds and leads the Engineers Competence Center. Establishes best practices and promotes knowledge sharing. Strengthens engineering skills, nurtures a self-driven mindset, and develops technical lead competencies within the engineering group to ensure consistent execution excellence of P&P activities (e.g. skill-sharing initiatives and mentorship to foster team development).
• Manages engineers' workload and prioritizes among P&P activities. These range from participation in technical projects and programs, platform efficiency improvement work, to new technology exploration and testing. Success is measured by the timely delivery of projects and clear adoption of new technologies across the team.
• Defines and implements principles, standards, and processes of engineering work within P&P (e.g. implements standardized project documentation, ways of working and sets benchmark to deliver consistenly across various acitivites).
• Closely collaborates with other leaders and key specialists in the Platform Technology team —especially with the Technology Projects Director, Platform Management Director, and the Senior Line Platform Owners group—to share insights and align strategies for continuous improvement.As well as alignment of priorities and defining Projects and activities
• Stakeholders. Engaging stakeholders to get inputs and aligning on key activities. Specifically the Organization in Jiaxing.

Do you have what it takes?

A degree in engineering or a related technical discipline (required), or equivalent strong technical experience within an engineering or production environment (required). Experience in project management, lean methodology, and work experience in technical field are essential for succeeding in this role.

Join us as a key partner in transforming technical innovations into reliable, scalable, and efficient packaging solutions—where your expertise will directly shape the future of our products.

• Experience in operations and engineering, with responsibilities including innovation, qualification, efficiency, and quality within manufacturing technology.
• Leadership experience within technical teams.
• Collaboration skills applied to internal groups (such as production sites and global departments) and external partners (including suppliers).
• Delivery of technical solutions in production environments.
• Knowledge in standardizing platforms and ensuring compliance with environmental, health, and safety (EHS) regulations.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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