Purpose of Job:
The main purpose of this position is to take project leadership for new Softlines Products Design and the maintenance of existing Softlines Products. Manage product development and ongoing mass production by working together with engineering department of global divisions and suppliers, maintaining schedules, ensure that products meet the design goals to fill the perceived need of the consumer, resolve supplier technical issues and assist to improve supplier manufacturing process. Job Scope & Major Responsibilities:
1. Report to Category Leader - Softlines.
2. Be responsible for the product form, structure and function. Create test plan for NPD or SMU projects.
3. Product Concepts and Ideas - Participate with engineering refinement of product concepts, features, form, function and specifications.
4. New Product Focus - Work with global project teams to understand and communicate project scope and evaluate design and resource requirements.
5. Lead Design Execution - Provide project updates and status reports to the global product development teams in addition to coordinating with suppliers.
6. Product Safety, Standards and Reliability - Ensure that products have been tested and evaluated for reliability, and that they meet applicable regulations, codes and standards.
7. Manufacturing Design - Significantly contribute to the determination of manufacturing design requirements by evaluating the supplier’s capability and resources as they relate to the intent of the product design and quality.
8. Lead the processes of specification, drawing and BOM.
9. Understand and follow up Engineering Change processes.
10. Involvement in Production - Support manufacturing by evaluating and reporting on the pre-production of new products or the redesigned elements of existing products. Initiate engineering change orders based on changes to be processed.
11. Assist Quality Assurance and Reliability Engineering to develop QA and Reliability Plan for their products and assist in manufacturing control.
12. Effectively and appropriately communicate with all levels of the organization and supplier and make sure assigned tasks are finished as request.
13. Other assignment Requirements: 1 Education
- Bachelor of Science in Textile/Mechanical/Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering 2 Experience
- 5+ years of solid experiences in design and/or manufacturing experience in consumer products
- 1+ year experience in camping soft goods such as tent, sleeping bag, furniture, outdoor apparel.
- Experience in plastic manufacturing and metal manufacturing a big plus 3 Professional Qualifications, Knowledge and skills
- Solid experience in textile manufacturing and testing
- Good knowledge of the interdependency between product features, standards requirements, cost and customer expectations
- Excellent project management, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and decision-making skills required.
- Computer literate in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint 4 Written / Oral Language skills:
- Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written. 5 Competencies
- Ability to think and work effectively with a concurrent engineer perspective on multiple projects
- Aggressive, proactive, self-motivated and able to work in a team environment
- Good cooperation and organization with cross function project team.
- Customer focus on internal/external sides 6 Others (eg. Travel Required: %)
- Travel Required: 10-30%
- International company experience preferred
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