Engineer, Commercialization, Footwear

🕒 January 21

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VF Corporation

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1899

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

Fashion • Retail • eCommerce

VF Corporation is a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear, and accessories, with a diverse portfolio of iconic brands including The North Face, Vans, and Timberland. The company is committed to sustainability and innovation in its operations and products, aiming to enhance the performance and style of its offerings.

📋 Description

• 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 pattern, fit, materials and assembly technics and ensure PD and vendor teams have conducted correct laboratory testing to ensure product performance. • Lead / 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 downstream and update stream teams against timelines to ensure BR and T4 readiness. • 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. • Partner with VF’s costing team to validate sample and production patterns against yield utilization.

🎯 Requirements

• 3 years relevant experience in footwear commercialization or production environments • Degree holder in Textiles, Eq./Apparel/ Footwear related fields • Footwear engineer, LEAN manufacturing, Automation, patterns, laboratory standards and testing / materials • Knowledge of Footwear with a key focus on all technical constructions, laboratory testing, material performance, fit and wear, LEAN production, automation and speed development. • Ability to communicate technical feedback in an impactful and easy to understand format to ensure fast buy-in for troubleshooting. • A strong understanding of paper patterns creation and an understanding of digital product creation will be a strong advantage. • Excellent English – Mandarin / Vietnamese a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Well-being policies • Workplace flexibility that is about helping you show up and lean into life with your whole self – emotionally, physically, and socially.