Senior Product Engineer, Future of Manufacturing, Asia

Your Job :

The purpose of the Future of Manufacturing (“FOM”) team is to diversify and automate our source base in order to mitigate risk, increase capacity, drive quality, improve environmental impacts, reduce total landed cost, improve service and deliver growth closer to our consumer.

As a Senior Product Engineer, FOM, Asia you will play a key role in driving the future of our footwear making process from development to production in Southeast Asia. You will be responsible for managing individual projects related to the footwear manufacturing process for new ways of making key models with various product groups to ensure the mass manufacturability of these models within the new processes and technologies for manufacturing. You will ensure that the technologies and processes deliver the expected fit, feel, ride, and quality our consumers expect.

As a Senior Product Engineer, FOM, Asia, you will provide input and feedback to development, commercialization, Lean, and engineering teams to improve our products. You, and members of your team, will lead projects, manage related factory trials, and ensure proper execution of product and process changes.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead and support trials and commercialization on a portfolio of projects for all aspects of key manufacturing processes and technologies in the Brooks lineup, from innovation sample to production with end-to-end accountability.
• Define project tasks and resource requirements; assemble and lead project teams.
• Develop full-scale project plans, risk assessments, change control and project status.
• Track, manage, and report on project budget and milestones and provide status reports to project stakeholders.
• Report, manage, mitigate project issues, risks, and escalations, and ensure project delivery and overall success.
• Utilize an advanced understanding of the footwear manufacturing process to teach FoM automation concepts to the broader team and proactively recommend changes to processes to enhance overall product quality and performance
• Engage with and build relationships with development managers and more senior product engineers to align on standards, materials, and methods
• On more advanced models, review component construction, pattern and process at the product factory.
• Collaborate with tooling engineering team to review critical wear test samples, production tools, and best practices.
• Review and confirm wear test shoes before shipping to the USA.
• Ensure FOM products are manufactured according to approved product specifications, including functional and aesthetic performance specifications.
• Work closely with QA teams to improve our footwear standards and construction methods, providing options, solutions and recommendations and influencing to gain consensus on final recommendations.
• Advise USA/Asia DP, Factory and Production Teams from an automation perspective on upper pattern, upper molds and tooling concerns for production.
• Provide solutions to issues as they arise during the early stages of design/development and design the optimal path forward.
• Lead and support problem solving and resolve issues/opportunities across the
• Commercialization team
• Ensure best practices are documented for technologies and processes and manage the proliferation of the process documentation with affected locations.
• Enforce standard processes across all factories
• Occasional International travel may be required.

Your Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience in the Footwear industry
• Advanced knowledge of footwear construction methods, patterns, processes, tooling, and materials
• Post-secondary degree in an associated discipline (science, engineering) preferred; in lieu of degree, an additional 2+ years of experience acceptable
• Proven project accountability and delivery; proven leadership in formal or non-formal roles
• Fluent English communication skills (both speaking and writing). Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions
• Effective communication, organizational skills and willingness to lead or work in a team-oriented environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Familiarity with Smartsheet preferred.
• Detail oriented, organized, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Embraces and lives the Brooks values and Run Happy attitude.