LEGO Launches Vietnam Factory Manufacturing Training Program

With the the LEGO Group's new factory in Binh Duong province, South Vietnam set to open in 2025, the manufacturer is investing in training and support for its local team. 

This will come in the form of a comprehensive training programme that equips hundreds of employees with the digital skills and knowledge needed to operate high-tech production equipment. 

The training programme will cover both local-on-the-job training and hands-on-learning overseas at the company's global network of factories.

International colleagues with deep subject matter expertise will mentor and advise newly hired employees, creating a vital knowledge exchange. 

Participants will gain scenario-based knowledge and experience troubleshooting issues across moulding, packing and continuous improvement.

As the global manufacturing sector faces a desperate need to attract new talent and upskill existing workers, the LEGO group is showing the industry how it's done.

“Our team members are our most important assets.," says Jesper Hassellund Mikkelsen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam.

"I’m incredibly thankful for the close collaboration we have had with other LEGO factories around the world to design trainings that provide our colleagues with best-in-class knowledge into the scale and technology behind what we are building at the site.

"These trainings are essential in ensuring operational readiness and are the foundation on which future team successes are built.”

The programme centers expertise and quality, incorporating the manufacturing practices, techniques and approaches refined at LEGO factories across the world. 

These include the LEGO factory in Billund, Denmark which is helping to rain new employees in Vietnam on moulding and the group's factories in Jiaxing, China and Kladno, Czech Republic which are lending their expertise on packing.

As the LEGO Group's only other Asia-based manufacturing site, the factory in Jiaxing, China has played an especially significant role in delivering support. 

The factory actually hosted the first round of trainees in August to provide a weeks-long exchange.

Construction of the LEGO factory in Vietnam is now approximately 85% complete, with test production set to start later this year.

As the factory progresses towards operational readiness, this training programme marks a significant milestone for the factory and the LEGO group. 

The group first announced it would create a new factory in Vietnam back in 2021. 

During this announcement it pledged to create more than 4,000 jobs over the next 15 years. 

This certainly seems like a positive continuation of that, highlighting once more how crucial training programmes are for the global manufacturing sector. 

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