Senior Product Engineer, Of Manufacturing, Asia

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.

The purpose of the Future of Manufacturing (“FOM”) team is to diversify and automate our source base in order to mitigate risk, increase capacity, drive quality, improve environmental impacts, reduce total landed cost, improve service and deliver growth closer to our consumer.

As a Senior Product Engineer, FOM, Asia you will play a key role in driving the future of our footwear making process from development to production in Southeast Asia. You will be responsible for managing individual projects related to the footwear manufacturing process for new ways of making key models with various product groups to ensure the mass manufacturability of these models within the new processes and technologies for manufacturing.

You will ensure that the technologies and processes deliver the expected fit, feel, ride, and quality our consumers expect.

As a Senior Product Engineer, FOM, Asia, you will provide input and feedback to development, commercialization, Lean, and engineering teams to improve our products. You, and members of your team, will lead projects, manage related factory trials, and ensure proper execution of product and process changes.

• Lead and support trials and commercialization on a portfolio of projects for all aspects of key manufacturing processes and technologies in the Brooks lineup, from innovation sample to production with end-to-end accountability.
• Define project tasks and resource requirements; assemble and lead project teams.
• Develop full-scale project plans, risk assessments, change control and project status.
• Track, manage, and report on project budget and milestones and provide status reports to project stakeholders.
• Report, manage, mitigate project issues, risks, and escalations, and ensure project delivery and overall success.
• Utilize an advanced understanding of the footwear manufacturing process to teach FoM automation concepts to the broader team and proactively recommend changes to processes to enhance overall product quality and performance
• Engage with and build relationships with development managers and more senior product engineers to align on standards, materials, and methods
• On more advanced models, review component construction, pattern and process at the product factory.
• Collaborate with tooling engineering team to review critical wear test samples, production tools, and best practices.
• Review and confirm wear test shoes before shipping to the USA.
• Ensure FOM products are manufactured according to approved product specifications, including functional and aesthetic performance specifications.
• Work closely with QA teams to improve our footwear standards and construction methods, providing options, solutions and recommendations and influencing to gain consensus on final recommendations.

• Advise USA/Asia DP, Factory and Production Teams from an automation perspective on…