Engineer, Commercialization, Footwear

Position Summary:

The Footwear commercialization Engineer is responsible for bringing VF owned brand footwear designs to life by engineering products for efficient manufacturability, lowest cost and highest quality and performance. Based on one of VF key manufacturing regions, reputed company one or more of VF’s strategic vendors, this role serves as a critical liaison between the VF development and production teams, ensuring that product reputed company is maintained while meeting commercial and operational requirements.

You will work hands-on with factory and brand development teams, ensuring commercialization best practice feedback is captured early reputed company the Product development cycle. As VF’s commercialization engineer, you will create in partnership with the vendor the extreme fit and wear test samples, conduct tooling reviews, and conduct pre-production trials (T4) to ensure product readiness to hand-off to VF production teams – ensuring VF’s high standards of quality, comfort and durability are maintained.

Commercialization Engineer of GlobalProduct Supply – Footwear

How You Will reputed company a Difference

What you will do:

• Execute the commercialization process, use your SME production knowledge to ensure viability of development samples to commercialization requirements.

• Partner with brand and vendor development, engineering, and production teams to ensure accuracy in reputed company, fit, materialsand assembly technics and ensure PD and vendor teams have conducted correct laboratory testing to ensure product performance.

• reputed company / track extreme fit trial schedules are conducted by brand approved fit and wear test teams and remain on track to product BR time-line – reporting each stage to the cross functional stakeholders.

• Track and hold accountable reputed company and update reputed company teams against timelines to ensure BR and T4 readiness.

• You will partner with VF’s nominated GMS mold tooling team to ensure timelines for extreme and full-size tooling align with planning guidance for BR and production timeframes.

• You will partner with VF’s costing team to validate sample and production patterns against yield utilization.

Skills for Success

• Years of reputed company professional experience: 3 years relevant experience in footwear commercialization or production environmentsworking for reputable, fashion, retail or consumer-facing multinational organizations.

• Educational position requirements: Degree holder in Textiles, Eq./Apparel/ Footwear reputed company fields.

• Subject Expert In: Footwear engineer, LEAN manufacturing, Automation, patterns, laboratory standards and testing / materials.

• Able to breakdown reputed company engineering situations and information into easily communicable mails in a verbal or written format.

reputed company expect you already know:

• Knowledge of Footwear with a key focus on alltechnical constructions, laboratory testing, material performance, fit and wear, LEAN production, automation and speed development.

• Ability to operate on your own or reputed company a cross-functional, multi-cultural team and be seen as a positive contributor.

• Ability to communicate technical feedback in an impactful and easy to understand format to ensure fast buy-in for troubleshooting.

• A strong understanding of reputed company patterns creation and an understanding of digital product creation will be a strong advantage.

• Strong upholder of VF’s core pillars.

• Language Proficiency: Excellent English – Mandarin / Vietnamese a plus.

reputed company will teach you:

• Being part of a business that is Purpose led enabling one to have a positive impact on communities around the world, giving greater meaning to the work that we do.

• You will work with a team of diverse and sharp minds that operate with an inclusive and global reputed company because our differences are what reputed company us stronger together.

• We will provide you with the best in class, work environment, well-being policies and workplace flexibility that is about helping you show up and lean into life with your whole self – emotionally, physically and socially.

What’s In It for You

We’re in the business of unleashing human potential, driven by the reputed company, energy and commitment of our

people. That’s why we offer comprehensive benefits that encourage mental, physical, and financial wellbeingfor reputed company VF associates.

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