On - Senior Specialist – Footwear Tooling Engineer - Zürich

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Footwear Product Creation

In short

You will create groundbreaking concepts and products for high-performance athletes while advancing On’s sustainability goals. Working in a collaborative environment, you’ll shape the future direction of our pinnacle performance product and technologies through Innovation and Design.
You will act as the owner of the bottom unit development for our pinnacle performance product and technologies. You will work in close collaboration with designers and developers here at HQ and our tooling team in Vietnam to create the highest quality products. From concept creation through prototyping, you will guide the team on bottom unit materials, geometries, and construction from a critical manufacturing, biomechanical performance, and durability viewpoint. You will also be a key player in identifying and creating process improvements for all bottom unit development across the company.

Your mission

– Lead the bottom unit development for On’s performance products
– Provide solutions to design and construction constraints by using your demonstrated knowledge of materials, mold construction and manufacturing
– Evaluate and improve product designs for manufacturability and durability by reviewing 2D/3D CADs, prototypes, and feedback from the testing teams
– Ensure alignment with product specifications and manufacturing capabilities
– Use your understanding of plastics injection molding to advise cost, design, and molding capabilities of injected components in the bottom unit
– Collaborate with our Asian counterparts and support mold shop teams on tooling revisions and manufacturing concerns
– Assist the development, product management, and design teams with any tooling related questions or issues
– Evaluate current workflows and create process improvements to maximize efficiencies and advance testing

Your story

– Higher education degree in Engineering or another relevant field
– Minimum of 5 years experience within a footwear engineering role working closely with development or production
– Experience working with 2D and 3D CADs (Rhino a bonus)
– Technical knowledge in materials, manufacturing, and plastics injection molding
– Demonstrated expertise in project management, costing, and the ability to provide solutions within complex constraints
– Excellent time management skills and ability to work with multiple deadlines
– Fluent in English
-Experience in 3d modeling
-Experience in rapid prototyping tools
-Ability to travel to Asia 2 times a year

Meet the team

We are an innovative and creative team working closely to convert cutting-edge ideas into prototypes and exceptional performance products. High quality and performance are top of mind when creating our footwear products. Our team combines the best experts in fields such as Engineering, Development and Product Management to create something extraordinary.