Senior Specialist - Tooling Engineer
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Senior Specialist - Tooling Engineer leads the bottom unit in our footwear development, acting as the main contact from concept through prototyping to production and coordinating with designers, developers and our Asia outsourcing hub. You will provide material and mold construction input, drive manufacturability and durability improvements, and support multi vertical projects including Innovation. The role combines 2D-3D modeling, tooling design, and cost aware decision making while partnering with moldshops and global teams to validate high performance products. Requirements include a degree in Engineering or Design, 5+ years in an engineering role in footwear, strong CAD skills (Rhino preferred), FEA a bonus, fluent English, and proven PM, cost and quality capabilities. For your application, tailor your CV to showcase cross functional leadership, offshore collaboration, and measurable impact on timing and cost; highlight relevant footwear experience. You’ll join a small team of five tooling experts in Zürich onsite, within a culture of relentless discovery.
This role will act as the leader and main point of contact when it comes to the bottom unit in the footwear development process. As a Footwear Tooling engineer, you will work in close collaboration with designers, developers and out sourcing hub in Asia to provide a smooth and effective transition from the concept creation, to prototyping and through to production. You will also be working closely with our Innovation and Sport engineering teams to help validate and bring high performance products and technologies to market.
- Provide Footwear technical designs constraints and solutions, material choices and product construction input by using your demonstrated knowledge of material, mold construction and manufacturing methods.
- Act as the bottom unit leader for product across multiples verticals and projects, not only Inline but Innovation as well.
- Analyse and improve product designs for manufacturability and durability by offering solutions and still achieving quality and performance targets. Your skills in 2D-3D modelling will support these goals.
- Use your understanding of cost implementations of individual molding methods as well as actual tooling designs to give recommendations.
- Assist the development product management and design teams with any tooling related questions or issues, in addition of collaborating with our Asian counterparts and supporting moldshops teams.
- Hold a higher education degree in Engineering or Design fields.
- Have 5+ of experience within a engineering role working closely with development and production, preferably in FTW.
- Have experience working with 2D and 3D CAD FIles (Rhinoceros ideally). Experience in Simulation (FEA) as a bonus.
- Have excellent time management skills an the ability to work with multiples deadlines.
- Have technical knowledge in material, manufacturing, and plastic molding. Footwear is a world you know well.
- Have demonstrated expertise in project management, costing, quality, and abilities to provide solutions within complex constraints.
- Fluent in English
You'll be joining our growing team of five Tooling experts, a specialized group at the heart of our global Footwear Engineering team. Here, you will be fueled by a culture of relentless discovery, directly shaping the future of our products.