Adress Do you share our passion for an active lifestyle? Here is an opportunity to work with a great team of people and play a key role in the making of great products that inspires to live an active life.
Welcome to join our Global Product Development Team in Hillerstorp as our next Material Developer for Textiles.
As a Material Developer within textiles you will hold a key position in the soft goods development team, a team that support all the product development projects involving textiles. You will be responsible for development of fabrics and accessories in new development projects and maintenance projects with focus on Juvenile & Pet and Roof top tent products - from product initiation to ready for production. In new development projects you will act as the expert that give guidelines and recommendations when it comes to selection of textile materials. You will investigate new technologies in textile development in order to be able to propose different alternative solutions in different projects. Common factors you have to consider and evaluate are performance, compliance and cost.
You will be responsible for documentation of material specification and requirements for our textiles. Moreover, you will also participate in the development of test methods and codes related to textiles and analyze the results. In the role as Material Developer you will work towards many contacts, both within and outside the company such as product manager, industrial designer, CMF designer, pattern developer, design engineer, project manager, test engineer, sourcing and suppliers.
Your profile
You have an academic engineering degree within textile or similar. In addition to this you have a couple of years of work experience from development of textile products or products partly consisting of textiles.
We expect you to have experience working in PLM-system and have knowledge and experience when it comes to release of design technical document. You are experienced but at the same time hungry to further improve yourself in the field of material development of fabrics and accessories. You have a passion for sustainable textiles of the future and development of eco-friendly and resource-efficient textiles. To succeed in this role we believe you have high ability to present technical solutions and challenges, and able to adjust the way of communication depending on audience. We also expect you can balance between multiple tasks/priorities and still consistently meet deadlines. You are a self-starter and working well without guiding direction and able to set priorities with Thule's best in mind. Moreover you have great creative skills as well as analytical. You are fluent in English.
We believe in strong team work both within your own team but also across teams. We strive to be an open and curious organization, sharing our knowledge and inspiring one another. Within Thule Group you will find people who have a passion for the products we make and the outdoor company we are. We share the same values and we like to have fun. All of our employees have a joint responsibility to maintain that spirit and contribute to it.
About our Global Product Development Department
Globally we are over 250 engineers out of the majority is working in our Global Product Development Center in Hillerstorp (Sweden). Our cross functional team consists of highly skilled and motivated members with a well-balanced variety of experiences. We are a truly global company with an international and multi culturally mixed team. English is the language we use in our daily communication. We see a great future with continued passion for product development that is vital for our growth as a company. We set great value in our working environment and offer great premises designed for product development. In our Global R&D center in Hillerstorp we have expanded with new offices, landscapes, team rooms and creative areas, but also great prototype areas including cut & sew and electronics lab.
Application
The position is placed in Hillerstorp and reports to Manager Soft Goods Development Region Europe, Johanna Malmklint, who is able to answer further questions regarding this position by phone 0370-255 69. Please apply through our website www.thulegroup.com/open-positions with CV and personal letter. Do not wait to show your interest until the last application date as interviews are held continuously during the process and the position might be filled before the last application deadline, which is February 25th.
We look forward to hear from you!
About Thule Group
Thule Group is a global sports and outdoor company. We offer high-quality products with smart features and a sustainable design that make it easy for people across the globe to live an active life. Under the motto Active Life, Simplified - and with a focus on consumer-driven innovation and long-term sustainability - we develop, manufacture and market products within the product categories Sport&Cargo Carriers (roof racks, roof boxes and carriers for transporting cycling, water and winter sports equipment, and rooftop tents mounted on a car), Juvenile & Pet Products (strollers, bike trailers, child bike seats and products to bring your dog), RV Products (awnings, bike carriers and tents for RVs and caravans) and Packs, Bags & Luggage (hiking backpacks, luggage and camera bags).
Thule Group has about 2,600 employees at nine production facilities and 35 sales offices worldwide. The Group's products are sold in 138 markets and in 2022, sales amounted to SEK 10.1 billion.
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