Lead Industrialisation Engineer

In short

Take the leap and redefine the future of shoe production with us. This is not a typical engineering role. You will be a hands-on pioneer, responsible for taming a groundbreaking, immature technology and forging the path from a single prototype to a reliable, global manufacturing reality.

Location: Busan, South Korea

Your Mission

Your mission is to be the critical bridge between an innovative prototype and an efficient, full-scale manufacturing operation. On is at the beginning of a critical and exciting journey, and this role is fully embedded in day-to-day operations to make our Lightspray innovation manufacturable, reliable, and scalable. You will spend significant time on the factory floor (Gemba), working with a high degree of autonomy to systematically solve problems, challenge conventions, and build a robust, repeatable manufacturing system that will change the industry.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Process Industrialization & Stabilization: Take full ownership of stabilizing the Lightspray manufacturing process. Apply Lean methodologies to analyze the current state, identify opportunities, and lead the implementation of a future state with improved flow and reduced waste.
• Prototype to Production Transition: Actively participate in sampling and small-batch production runs. Use these opportunities to gain deep, hands-on knowledge of the process, identify potential failure modes early, and inform the strategy for full-scale production.
• Equipment & Tooling Qualification: Lead the end-to-end qualification process for new equipment and tooling (IQ/OQ/PQ), defining acceptance criteria and ensuring assets are ready for high-volume production.
• Process Capability & Control: Establish and monitor Statistical Process Control (SPC) to ensure process stability. Conduct process capability studies (Cpk/Ppk) to prove the process can consistently meet quality specifications.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Communication: Act as a central communication hub for the Lightspray process. You will constantly interact with and align a wide range of stakeholders, including the shop-floor manufacturing team, central Innovation teams (Plastics, Robotics, Mechanical), external machine suppliers, and other global engineering teams.
• Digital-to-Physical Integration: Act as the link between the digital design and the physical workflow. Troubleshoot and refine robotic programs, validate and optimize process parameters, and ensure tooling and automation perform reliably on the factory floor.
• Process Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate manufacturing risks by leading Process Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (PFMEA) with cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge Capture & Standardization: Develop, write, and implement clear, effective standardized work documentation, including control plans, SOPs, and OPLs, to reduce process variability and empower the manufacturing team.
• Manufacturing Blueprint Contribution: Play a key role in creating and refining the comprehensive manufacturing blueprint, the master document that will enable the successful and standardized scaling of Lightspray technology across global production sites.
• Design for Manufacturability (DFM): Provide constant, data-driven DFM feedback to the Innovation teams to ensure future designs are optimized for stable, high-volume production.
• Performance & Culture Impact: Directly influence factory performance by improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Your success will have a tangible impact on the confidence, morale, and continuous improvement culture of the entire manufacturing team.
• Global Support: Be available for international travel to support technology transfer, process scaling, and troubleshooting at other On facilities.

Your story

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Mechatronics, or a related engineering field.
• 3-7 years of experience in a manufacturing environment with a strong focus on new process introduction (NPI), automation, or process scaling.
• An entrepreneurial mindset with a strong sense of ownership and a proven ability to manage complex projects and make sound, independent decisions in a dynamic environment.
• A passion for innovation and a hands-on mentality, with direct experience in the full industrialization lifecycle, including equipment qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ), process validation (Cpk/Ppk), and creating robust control plans.
• You have a demonstrated history of applying Lean Manufacturing tools (e.g., Value Stream Mapping, 5S, Kaizen, Standard Work, Poka-Yoke, A3 Thinking) to achieve measurable improvements.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with comfort adapting your style to effectively align stakeholders from the factory floor to R&D labs and external vendors.
• You are comfortable and effective working directly with complex electromechanical systems (robotics, automation, polymer processing).
• You possess a strong computational aptitude and can troubleshoot logic-based systems (e.g., robot programs, PLC logic) to diagnose issues in an automated workflow.
• A tenacious and structured problem-solver who thrives on tackling ambiguous challenges. Familiarity with risk assessment tools like PFMEA is a strong plus.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification is a plus.

What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

• Step One

  It starts with you...

  You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

• Step Two

  Interview with a recruiter

  What ignites your spirit? This is where we’ll start getting to know all about you and what makes you tick – and it’s your first chance to get a feel for our culture. Chatting with a member of our talent team, you’ll learn more about On and how we work. We’ll learn about what motivates you and what you could bring to the team.

• Step Three

  Interview with a hiring manager

  Ready to dig into the details? This second interview will be held with your future manager and will focus on the specifics of the job. Together you’ll delve into your unique skills and experiences and how they could be relevant at On. It's also a time to assess how you might feel working side-by-side. Bring any questions you have about the job, the team or anything else you might like to know – this is an open forum.

• Step Four

  The Case Study

  What's your style? This task will help us understand how you think, face a challenge and give insight into your novel ideas. Designed to give everyone their best shot, your case study is based on something you might typically experience on the job. This is your chance to show us what you’ve got. So express yourself. Be you.

• Step Five

  The Experience Day

  Your first taste of the Oniverse. This is a time to meet some of the people you'll be working closest with. In person or virtually, you'll get a feel for the day-to-day at On and the people who make it happen. You'll chat with a few potential teammates - the conversations will be as equally driven by the role and your experience as by our values. We believe how you do things is just as important as what you do.

• Step Six

  The Result

  Are we a good fit? We’ll get together internally to share our feedback and decide if we’re a match. We know that job searching is a big time investment, so it’s not a decision we take lightly. It’s also time for you to reflect on the experience – are we the right place for you? No matter the outcome, we’ll give you meaningful feedback.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.