Global Football FW Senior Product Engineer

Global Football Footwear Team Senior Product Engineer

As a member of Global Football Footwear Team, you will collaborate with key functional partners both onshore and offshore. This includes teams in Footwear Product Development, Footwear Product Testing, Footwear Material Design and Development, Product Design, Product Management, Product Merchandising, Sourcing, Business Operations, Value Engineering, and our partners in Asia and Italyboth within NIKE and externally. You will need to navigate the NIKE matrix to ensure that our processes align with NIKE Footwear Engineering divisional and functional standards, effectively driving product excellence. You will serve as the primary point of contact for our offshore teammates, ensuring clear and accurate communication during the product development, commercialization, and manufacturing processes.

We are seeking a GFB FW Senior Product Engineer to join us, dedicated to creating the best performance footwear for our footballer. You will utilize innovative approaches to develop new concepts, design products and processes, read and interpret technical drawings with confidence, and analyse process data to create refined product specifications. You will be involved in innovation projects, reviewing samples during product creation and commercialization to provide feedback that ensures cost-effective, high-quality deliverables meeting consumer expectations. Your role will also include engineering best practices work to enhance quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter, a quick learner, a strong communicator, a great teammate, and possess solid technical and leadership skills.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• A minimum of 4 years directly relevant work experience in Footwear, Product Testing, Development, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience and training.
• Ability to communicate proficiently with multiple internal and external partners with in-depth high-level communication with positive energy
• An inclination to think out of the box, explore, learn, and find ways to innovate and improve the athlete experience, applying consumers insights, leveraging NSRL science, FEA, Mechanical, and athlete testing and data analytics
• Ability to identify & drive valuable engineering solutions from the conceptual stage all the way to manufacturing
• Proficient in reading technical drawings, specs, design sketches and/or 3D digital files and link them together as a system approach to identify potential problems and/or challenges and provide complete problem-solving/options and solutions
• Demonstrating understanding virtual and rapid prototyping methods such as CAD viewing and 3D printing.

Preferred Experience:

• Hands-on experience with injection plates, mold tooling, and footwear component optimization.
• Collaboration with Nike Flyknit or other upper engineering technologies.
• Familiarity with global manufacturing partners and experience in performance footwear categories
• Digital literacy, including familiarity with Microsoft Office, Miro Board, spreadsheets, database management, and proficiency with 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools, and pattern engineering software, is a plus.

This role focuses on product creation, from initial brief to commercialization, with an unwavering commitment to product excellence in terms of Craft, Fit, Comfort, Performance, Quality, Sustainability, Cost/Value, and Innovation. You will provide early recommendations and technical expertise to cross-functional teams on tooling, compounds, plates, thermoplastic injection, product construction techniques, materials, manufacturing processes, sustainability, cost, and chemical engineering solutions. Your contributions will drive the continued growth of the team and the business, helping to forestall potential manufacturing, sustainability, or cost issues. Junior team members will depend on you to share your expertise and aid their understanding of footwear.