Lead Concept Pattern Engineering - Bowerman Footwear Lab

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

The Bowerman Footwear Lab (BFL) is a one-stop shop for creation, collaboration, and education for the greater Nike Footwear community. They have the machines and capabilities to produce one-of-a-kind footwear prototypes in Beaverton, facilities dedicated to hosting collaborative working sessions, and staff devoted to generating best in industry training courses around footwear product creation. The BFL partners with various groups across Nike such as footwear design, product creation, and innovation.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a candidate with the ability to blend an artistic eye for design with a technical engineering mindset. The job requires strong visualization skills to translate between 2D and 3D, as well as the ability to solve problems in creative and innovative ways. The candidate must thrive when working in a team setting with others who have different perspectives, backgrounds, and/or styles. Candidates should be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and demonstrate a positive attitude and a bias towards taking action and driving results.

Additional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, apparel design, engineering, or combination of education, experience and training
• A minimum of 8 years directly relevant work experience
• Experience working in a manufacturing or technical capacity; at least 5 years direct footwear pattern engineering experience
• Demonstrated ability to engineer complex footwear patterns from a 2D design sketch or 3D rendering, including new and innovative construction types or processes.
• Advanced proficiency using footwear pattern CAD software, PROCAM Dimensions preferred.
• Proficiency operating cutting, stitching, and other footwear manufacturing machines. Ability to create a lasted upper from start to finish and troubleshoot common technical issues.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

As a Lead Concept Engineer in the Bowerman Footwear Lab, you will help to bring early footwear concepts to life by turning sketches into patterns and subsequently into real footwear prototypes. This work helps to accelerate decision making and set our overseas factory partners up for success. To accomplish this, you will:

• Communicate with Nike footwear designers, developers, and engineers across multiple categories to understand their vision for the shoe.
• Influence the design and technical direction of the project based on your expertise.
• Utilize PROCAM Dimensions CAD software to translate design sketches into footwear patterns.
• Create footwear prototypes using a combination of machinery and hands-on making, and/or lead teammates through the creation process.
• Review and scrutinize projects for execution of key design details, adherence to best practices, quality of construction, and manufacturability.
• Serve as a primary mentor for new Concept Engineers or other BFL prototyping teammates, supporting their overall learning and development.
• Educate the greater Nike footwear community through your work to develop and deliver training content.
• Lead cross functional team projects with moderate to large resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.