About this role
Principal, Manufacturing Engineer, India
Provide technical leadership to ensure manufacturing partners meet Nike’s strategic goals, quality expectations, and engineering readiness requirements.
Lead manufacturability reviews for new products, constructions, materials, and manufacturing methods; identify risks early and influence corrective action before scale-up.
Collaborate with Manufacturing Systems Engineering and factory teams to drive global strategic initiatives, pilot new capabilities, and define implementation requirements.
Develop, validate, and standardize engineering best practices on the factory floor, including process parameters, standard work, control plans, and capability checks.
Use data-driven engineering methods to improve process stability, reduce rework / rejects, strengthen the performance, and improve production readiness.
Participate in product tear-down meetings and technical reviews to provide manufacturing feedback on construction, tooling, materials, process sequence, and quality risks.
Drive structured problem solving for complex manufacturing issues, including root-cause analysis, experiment planning, corrective actions, and preventive actions.
Support the scale-up of innovative manufacturing methods and technologies by assessing feasibility, process capability, operator readiness, equipment requirements, and risk controls.
Build future-ready engineering capability within manufacturing teams through coaching, technical standards, best-practice sharing, and hands-on problem solving.
Influence cross-functional decisions by communicating technical trade-offs clearly across product, engineering, sourcing, factory, and leadership stakeholders.
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