Footwear Technician

Urban Shoemakers is a family owned footwear importer and wholesaler that has enjoyed a preeminent position in the specialist independent footwear wholesale market in Australian and New Zealand for over 30 years. From our Port Melbourne
_head_ office we design, develop, manufacture (utilizing overseas sub-contracted resources), import and wholesale footwear into the Australian and New Zealand markets across two in-house footwear brands, EOS Footwear and Los Cabos. We also have distribution of both our brands throughout Canada and the USA.

For this part of your role, you will be responsible for all the technical footwear issues associated within the Urban business - be they from the current ranges and/or any new ranges introduced.

To be successful you will need to have advanced proficiency in the following skill sets:

- Last design and last prototype development and correction.
- Footwear Pattern cutting.
- Thorough Footwear Component knowledge including the ability to design and correct all major footwear components.
- Extensive Footwear material knowledge relevant to all major footwear genres.
- Thorough knowledge and hands on experience in all major footwear manufacturing technologies.
- Thorough knowledge of all major footwear finishing techniques and an ability to communicate them to and reliably train relevant manufacturing resource staff.
- Thorough knowledge of major relevant international ‘Chemical testing’ regulations and requirements.
- Ability to systematically and scientifically ‘fit’ all prototypes and adjust for the relevant targeted market segment.
- Be a team player.

**Key Selection Criteria**
- Ability to think strategically, coolly and decisively under all circumstances
- Having a ‘results’ driven approach to the role and be able to show previous success in building brand awareness
- Ability to travel extensively is a pre-requisite
- Possess a natural flair for design, fashion and sales
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively under often tight pre-determined deadlines
- A highly motivated and focused approach to work
- A hands-on approach that will see you roll up your sleeves and assist in miscellaneous operational and administrative task as may be necessary
- Proven skills to negotiate and liaise with suppliers, customers, service providers, sales agents and colleagues
- Able to work independently, while contributing strongly to our whole business and product development team
- A working knowledge of Portuguese, Italian, Spanish,Mandarin, Vietnamese and/or Hindi will be very favourably assessed.
- Possess excellent time management
- Be able to multi-task and
- Have a confident communication style

**FURTHER INFORMATION**
- This is a full-time permanent position and applicants must be eligible to work_ _**_long-term_**_ _in Australia_
- No agencies need reply to this job advertisement_