engineering
Posted 4 hours agoLead - Tooling Engineer
at Ooon
Zurich, SwitzerlandOn-site
Responsibilities
- - Ensure alignment with product specifications and manufacturing capabilities
- - Collaborate with our Asian counterparts and support mold shop teams on tooling revisions and manufacturing concerns
Requirements
- - Provide solutions to design and construction constraints by using your demonstrated knowledge of materials, mold construction and manufacturing
- - Use your understanding of plastics injection molding to advise cost, design, and molding capabilities of injected components in the bottom unit
- - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related field
- experience within a footwear engineering role working closely with development and production, ideally in a footwear tooling development
- - Technical knowledge of various materials, mold construction, and manufacturing processes relevant to footwear; In-depth knowledge of plastics injection molding principles, including advising on cost, design, and molding capabilities of injected components -
- Experience working with 2D and 3D CADs (Rhino a bonus); proficiency in reviewing and evaluating 2D/3D CADs for manufacturability, durability, and alignment with product specifications -
- Experience in 3D modelling and rapid prototyping tools - Demonstrated
- experience in project management, costing, and the ability to provide solutions within complex constraints -
- Experience working with biomechanical performance principles as they relate to footwear bottom unit design -
- Experience working cross-functionally across designers, developers, product management, and testing teams -
- Experience collaborating with international manufacturing partners on tooling revisions and manufacturing concerns
- - Excellent time management skills and ability to work with multiple deadlines
Additional details
- As Footwear Tooling Engineer 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 On Labs in Zurich 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
- - Evaluate and improve product designs for manufacturability and durability by reviewing 2D/3D CADs, prototypes, and feedback from the testing teams
- - 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