Senior Footwear Process Engineer, Asia
Hai Phong
Footwear – Footwear Product Development (Asia) /
Full Time /
On-site
Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line.
Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation.
Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success:
· Runner First
We act in the best interest of the runner
· Word is Bond
We do what we say we’ll do
· Champion Heart
We give our all in everything we do
· There is no “I” in Run
We stay generous with our humanity
· Keep Moving
We find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic!
We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job:
The Senior Process Engineer plays a key role in building the best footwear for the runner by optimizing and improving our processes to ensure the highest quality products are delivered efficiently and cost effectively. You will work cross functionally with development, costing, commercialization team, and T1/T2/T3 factory partners to confirm product process accuracy and to support Brooks Asia-based development team to achieve the best product on cost, efficiency, quality, and sustainability objectives. In your role, you will actively work on process issues from the development stage through product confirmation while collaborating with partner functions to drive product creation and confirmation processes by creating a Process Flow Chart (PFC) in conjunction with the T1 factory to ensure products meet or exceed our quality and FIT/FEEL/RIDE, quality, and Crafted Beauty standards. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of footwear manufacturing processes from concept to commercialization and has problem solving skills and the ability to facilitate, discuss and align with Process Engineer Manager to publish a PFC.
Your Responsibilities:
- Standardize process methods and utilize standardized PFC templates across R&D centers to ensure product benchmarks, quality, and consistency are maintained across multiple manufacturing factories and across different countries and for single, dual or multi-source projects.
- Recommend solutions and educate cross functional team members to ensure a PFC is manufacturable and meets FIT/FEEL/RIDE, cost, and quality expectations.
- Develop partnerships with Brooks cross-functional teams and factory suppliers to enable joint problem solving to achieve better products with optimized process efficiencies and overall productivities.
- Work cross-functionally with development, costing, commercialization team, and T1/T2/T3 factory partners to confirm product process accuracy and manufacturing readiness.
- Proactively communicate to identify potential issues and provide solutions and risk assessments during the product cycle and in the adoption of new manufacturing methods and/or new technologies.
- Act as technical expert to the development, commercialization and manufacturing teams during the entire product creation process.
- Utilize an in-depth understanding of the footwear manufacturing process to identify issues and provide "the why”, options and solutions to achieve product objectives from a quality, cost, performance and design perspective.
- Make decisions on the PFC how to move forward; when issues arise make the final call and provide the team with clear directions on how to move forward.
- Develop, maintain and document process best practices and record learnings from each season/product to educate cross functional teams and T1/T2/T3 on seasonal basis new learnings.
- Keep up to date on the latest footwear trends and manufacturing process and techniques to identify opportunities to optimize our current methodologies and processes.
- Collaborate with the development and commercialization teams on the introduction of new technologies tools or processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in process engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- 5+ years’ relevant experience in the process & product of Athletic footwear
- 5+ years of experience working on the PFC confirmation and process decision making.
- High level understanding of footwear construction and manufacturing processes from concept to commercialization including upper preparation, cutting, stitching, HF&HF welding, upper 2D&3D screen printing, bottom stock fit and assembly.
- Demonstrate good problem-solving skills with persistent questioning to find out the “whys?” to Require to be fluent in English (writing and speaking) and able to communicate clearly with both the Asia and USA teams.
- Strong communication, solving, projects management skills and a willingness to work in a collaborative environment are essential.
- Practical work experience in all the areas of production is essential.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
- You must be able to travel globally as required for the job.
At Brooks, we celebrate diversity & equity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment, and encourage people of all backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills to apply. Brooks is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, two-spirit identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, the presence of a physical, mental, or sensory disability, marital status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), caste, citizenship or immigration status, honorably discharged veteran or military status, actual or perceived victims of domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault or stalking, HIV or Hepatitis C infection, political ideology, use of a trained service animal by a person with a disability, or on any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, or any other non-merit based factors.
