Footwear Product Specialist II - Bowerman Footwear Lab
Footwear Product Specialist II - Bowerman Footwear Lab
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Job Description
WHO YOULL WORK WITH
The Bowerman Footwear Lab (BFL) is a onestop shop for creation collaboration and education for the greater Nike Footwear community. They have the machines and capabilities to produce oneofakind 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.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for a candidate who will help shape the Footwear Production team and guide organization while helping set up processes to continuously improve our teams function. Candidates need to have the ability to execute projects independently while gathering input from teammates to influence decision making. The candidate must thrive when working in a team setting with others who have different perspectives backgrounds and/or styles and demonstrate strong interpersonal communication skills. This job requires footwear knowledge to help drive decisionmaking and to help the Footwear Production Team execute their projects.
Additional Requirements:
- Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education experience and training.
- A minimum of 2 years directly relevant work experience
- Strong problemsolving multitasking and communication skills with the ability to work in ambiguous evolving environments.
- Handson ability (or willingness to learn) to operate footwear machinery; physical capability required.
- Proficient in tools like Airtable Miro and Microsoft programs; skilled in documentation and collaboration.
- Resultdriven openminded and enthusiastic team player who values Diversity Equity and Inclusion as a key to success.
WHAT YOULL WORK ON
As a Footwear Production Specialist II in the Bowerman Footwear Lab (BFL) you will support the Footwear Production team by guiding teammates occasionally engaging in handson cobbling and prototype work and driving efficiency in prototype projects through your footwear expertise. Youll lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on process development and documentation reporting to the Footwear Production Manager and collaborating closely with production technicians entrylevel professionals and cross functional teams within and beyond the BFL including Concept Engineering Concept Creation Product Engineering Materials BFL Production and more.
- Bridge communication between Product Development and Team Manager to guide priorities and best practices.
- Advise the team on executing production samples using footwear knowledge and realtime analysis
- Translate broad requests into actionable tasks and ensure alignment with quality standards.
- Collaborate with Product Engineering to implement checkpoints and reflect on project learnings.
- Lead continuous improvement efforts including supply ordering documentation onboarding and crossfunctional collaboration.
- Support and help maintain systems for supply management and team operations
- Assist in teaching and supporting Bowerman Creative University (BCU) classes.
- Help train new team members and contribute to onboarding plans and documentation.
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for inperson 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.
Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full-Time
