Our client is Swiss Manufacturing company, seeking a Surface Treatment and Stamping Process Engineer to support the Surface Treatment and Stamping (STS) operations within their Thailand manufacturing facility. This role will be responsible for supporting process stability, quality improvement, production follow-up, and continuous improvement activities across stamping, polishing, coating, and heat treatment operations.
The successful candidate will work closely with production, quality, and maintenance teams to ensure stable manufacturing performance, support problem solving activities, and contribute to improvement in Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery performance within a high-precision manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities
1) Quality and Process Issue Handling
- Analyze root causes of quality and process-related issues within Surface Treatment and Stamping operations
- Coordinate with production and quality teams to implement corrective and preventive actions
- Support investigations related to customer complaints, internal rejects, and final inspection findings
- Monitor process stability and propose continuous improvement actions to improve quality and reduce defects
- Present findings, action plans, and improvement recommendations to the Section Manager and QA team
- Support daily and monthly production planning activities for STS operations
- Monitor production progress to ensure output targets, delivery timelines, and quality standards are achieved
- Prepare and maintain production follow-up reports and related process documentation
- Coordinate production changes, machine allocation adjustments, and process setup activities when required
- Monitor machine efficiency, process capability, and production performance within the STS department
- Analyze root causes of underperforming processes, downtime, scrap, or unstable operating conditions
- Work closely with production and maintenance teams to improve machine utilization and operational efficiency
- Support process optimization and continuous improvement initiatives
The position will support and coordinate activities related to the following in-house manufacturing processes:
- Stamping
- Polishing
- Coating processes (Gold, Rhodium, etc.)
- Heat Treatment
- Surface Treatment related operations
- Support spare part stock control and maintenance coordination for production equipment
- Monitor and update spare part inventory records
- Coordinate spare part ordering activities when stock reaches minimum levels
- Support preparation and update of maintenance procedures and work instructions
- Prepare and maintain technical documents, process instructions, and operational procedures
- Support process evaluations, validation activities, and improvement projects
- Prepare reports related to process performance, quality issues, and improvement activities
- Participate in continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives within the department
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related technical field
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in Surface Treatment and Stamping related processes, including coating, polishing, heat treatment, or metal finishing operations
- Experience within precision manufacturing industries such as small components, watchmaking, luxury accessories, jewelry, or similar high-precision manufacturing environment would be an advantage
- Good understanding of production processes, quality control, and process improvement methodologies
- Strong planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Leadership capability with a proactive and hands-on working approach
- Able to communicate effectively in both spoken and written English
- Computer literate in MS Office applications
- Able to work effectively in a multicultural manufacturing environment
