Sr. Compound Engineer

Overview

We are seeking an exceptionally skilled Sr. Compound and Manufacturing Operations Engineer to join our Center of Excellence (CoE) in Ponte San Nicolò, Italy. This outstanding opportunity allows you to work in a world-class environment where innovation and collaboration are at the forefront of everything we do.

What You'll Do

Compound Area:

• Supervise the local Compound Workshop and Testing Laboratory, ensuring flawless equipment maintenance and calibration, external audits, work planning, and test execution.
• Coordinate and monitor regional compound suppliers through metrics, audits, and periodic reports, encouraging ambitious business relationships built on trust and integrity.
• Conduct formal and informal audits in the compounding area, laboratory, and injection floor, interacting directly with suppliers onsite to drive flawless corrective actions and improvement plans.
• Support global and regional functions—including Product Execution, QA, Costing, Compliance, and Development—in transferring or developing products, guidelines, technologies, and standard methodologies. Focus strictly on compounding and injection-related activities.
• Continuously explore and drive innovation through groundbreaking and evolutionary changes in compounding, testing, and injection processes.
• Promptly communicate issues found in current processes and products and help to successfully resolve them, ensuring operational excellence.

Manufacturing Operations Area:

• Support global teams by coordinating with OEM partners to collect and consolidate relevant data, highlighting issues and risks to ensure flawless operations.
• Perform costing analyses and collect tooling-investment data by updating and monitoring price lists in SAP and PLM systems. Ensure accurate pricing in purchase orders according to schedules and internal standards and financial requirements.
• Promote cost-saving initiatives in manufacturing operations, guided by key benchmarks to improve efficiency.
• Coordinate quality assurance activities across Europe, ensuring complete implementation of the AQL methodology and achieving manufacturing efficiency in collaboration with global referent teams.
• Responsible for transferring the tech pack, applying quality standards, and attaining manufacturing efficiency in collaboration with global referent teams.

What You'll Bring to the Table

• University degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Polymers, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Languages: English (Intermediate or higher); Chinese, Spanish, or other languages a plus for global exposure.
• 3–5 years of experience in plastic/rubber compounding or injection molding, preferably in R&D or process technology.
• Solid knowledge of MS Office.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and curiosity to explore new processes and solutions.
• Hands-on, practical approach in lab and production environments.
• Teamwork skills, capable of collaborating in international, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
• Problem-solving approach with a focus on process improvement and operational efficiency.
• Proactive communicator who can raise issues, provide solutions, and influence collaborators.
• Passion for innovation and continuous improvement in materials, processes, and manufacturing.

Join us to help drive our mission and be part of an outstanding team that is setting the standard in the footwear industry!