Senior Product Engineer - NikeSKIMS Footwear
Listed on 2026-10-15
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Engineering
Product Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering, CAD/ AutoCAD/ Mechanical Design
This role is part of the newly established NikeSKIMS Product Creation team, working in a fast-moving, agile environment in close partnership with SKIMS. The Senior Footwear Product Engineer will collaborate with NIKE onshore and offshore footwear functional partners, including Innovation, Design, Product Management, Product Development, Material Development, Product Testing, PCC, PMO, and SKIMS partners. The role will navigate the NIKE matrix to ensure the team's process model aligns with NIKE Footwear Engineering standards and methodologies while driving product excellence.
The engineer will help drive NikeSKIMS footwear product creation from brief through commercialization across sport and lifestyle products, focusing on craft, fit, comfort, performance, quality, sustainability, and cost/value. This role reports to the Footwear Product Creation Lead.
- Drive NikeSKIMS footwear product creation from brief through commercialization across sport and lifestyle products.
- Provide early technical guidance on construction, materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, sustainability, cost, and engineering solutions, including process, lab testing, MCS, and MPS considerations.
- Identify manufacturing, sustainability, performance, quality, and costing risks early to help prevent issues before they impact product delivery.
- Review samples throughout product creation and commercialization, providing clear feedback to enable cost-effective, high-quality deliverables that meet consumer expectations.
- Help develop new NikeSKIMS engineering best practices and evolve existing practices to improve quality, craftsmanship, performance, and efficiency.
- Bachelor's degree in Footwear Product Creation, Product Testing, Development, or related field; any suitable combination of education, experience and training is accepted.
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant industry experience in footwear manufacturing, product creation, research and development, product testing, industrial engineering, or mechanical engineering.
- Strong footwear product creation expertise and experience working with overseas manufacturing partners.
- Proficiency in reading technical drawings, design sketches, and/or 3D digital files, with the ability to use a systems approach to identify potential problems, challenges, options, and solutions.
- Ability to identify and drive valuable engineering solutions from concept through manufacturing.
- Ability to communicate effective with multiple internal and external partners.
- Digital literacy, including familiarity with Microsoft Office, Miro, spreadsheets, database management, and 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools and pattern engineering software.
- Ability to value differences, work across cultures, and navigate NIKE's organizational matrix.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to work across stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Ability to travel internationally up to 35%, as needed.
- Knowledge of lasts, footwear pattern engineering, tooling, materials, test methodologies, and manufacturing processes.
- Proficiency in 2D/3D CAD/CAM tools and pattern engineering software.
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