Salomon - Testing Specialist Softgoods W/M - Annecy

Job Description

Are you a passionate outdoor sports enthusiast with a sports instructor certification and quality testing experience? Join Salomon’s Quality Testing team and play a key role in evaluating and improving our footwear, apparel, bags, and accessories. This role offers the perfect balance between lab testing and field testing, allowing you to combine technical analysis with real-world performance assessments. Be at the heart of product development, ensuring performance, safety, and innovation through rigorous testing and continuous improvement.

Ready to combine your technical skills and sporting passion? 

Your main missions : 

• Determine and size evaluation plans based on the required performance, specifications, measurement tools and inspection resources, from anticipation to production launch
• Propose and draft product test specifications before validation by the Product Quality Manager
• Design new tests
• Draw up specifications for test resources and methods and qualify them
• Define test safety resources/procedures
• Carry out and/or commission the assessments associated with the testing plan
• Manage measurement resources (GMMC)
• Manage the supply of consumables and materials required to carry out tests
• Contribute to development project groups in the role of expert testing referent
• Organise trials in France and abroad, guaranteeing trial safety in the context of international regulations (development or commercial launch)

Continuous improvement:

• Provide support in analysing market and/or production problems as part of the continuous improvement process
• Develop measurement/testing tools to ensure correlation with customer usage, developments in the sport and new concepts
• Contribute to the development of test methods based on biomechanics and simulation studies

 

Qualifications

Your profile :

 Experiences : 

• 2-3 years’ professional experience in a similar job and/or similar technical field desirable
• Outdoor and mountain sports enthusiast (trail running, running, and hiking). Actively connected to sports clubs, associations, and communities.

Education : 

• 2 years of higher education in physics, mechanics or materials engineering preferred
• Certification in Sports Coaching
• Workplace First Aid Certification

 

Technical skills : 

• Proficiency in statistical tools and database analysis
• Knowledge of products and materials, manufacturing processes, metrology, experimental design, measurement techniques
• Knowledge of footwear design and manufacturing would be a plus.

 

 IT : Command of pack Office

 Languages : English and French mandatory

 Personal qualities: Collaborative, open-minded

 

Additional Information

 Contract: Permanent, full-time.

️ Location: Based in Annecy, France.

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