Senior Product Risk Engineer - GSA Apparel (Multiple Roles)

Nike • Beaverton, OR

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About The Position

The Senior Product Risk Engineer works on Nike’s Apparel Product Risk Engineering team within Global Development & Materials, Global Product Standards. The role supports Nike Global Development & Materials – Apparel by applying prevention-based quality engineering processes and tools to help ensure products meet or exceed customer, consumer, and government regulatory requirements. It provides technical support to product engine groups through implementation of Product Risk Engineering procedures and tools, and delivers formal, quantitative feedback to internal Nike teams and external organizations to inform business decisions.

The role collaborates with Design, Development, Merchandising, Partner Management, manufacturing partners, and other product-creation stakeholders to identify and mitigate product and manufacturing risks before buy ready and as products move from concept to bulk production. It also contributes to defining and updating product standards and ensuring quality at scale.

Day-to-day work is organized around four accountabilities: developing and deploying product performance specifications based on Nike expectations; assessing failure potential and proactively reducing or resolving quality issues; testing to validate product requirements and qualify end-use application; and using preventative tools to address manufacturing quality challenges before they occur.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, or training.
• At least 5 years of directly relevant work experience.
• Experience with statistics, design of experiment (DOE), and quality management systems.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• Ability to effectively conduct presentations to small and large audiences.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple priorities at once.
• Self-motivated and a strategic thinker.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, domestically and internationally.
• Ability to initiate, plan, implement, and close projects or processes within scope, budget, and time constraints.
• Metrics-oriented analytical skills, including the ability to leverage models and synthesize data to assess and manage risk.
• Ability to communicate clearly and straightforwardly to influence stakeholders.
• Demonstrates accountability, openness to feedback, respect for teammates’ opinions, and appreciation of diverse people, ideas, and cultures.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of material, apparel, and/or equipment creation or manufacturing.
• Product Safety experience.
• Strong project management experience.
• Experience with Smartsheets.

Responsibilities

• Support Nike Global Development & Materials – Apparel in ensuring products meet or exceed customer, consumer, and government regulatory requirements through prevention-based quality engineering processes and tools.
• Provide technical support to product engine groups by implementing Product Risk Engineering procedures and tools.
• Provide formal, quantitative feedback to internal Nike teams and external organizations to influence business decisions.
• Develop and deploy product performance specifications based on Nike expectations.
• Determine product failure potential and act proactively to reduce and resolve quality issues.
• Validate product requirements through testing to qualify end-use applications.
• Leverage preventative tools to eliminate manufacturing quality challenges before they occur.
• Collaborate with product-creation stakeholders to prevent design and manufacturing risks before buy ready and support quality as products move from concept to bulk production.
• Contribute to defining and updating product standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior