The Breakdown:
Burton’s Prototype Shop Technicians are key team members of our Advanced Concept and Development Center Prototype Facility. In this role, you will be responsible for over-all prototyping duties while concurrently bringing together prototyping, manufacturing, and technology. You will share your knowledge and experience in all aspects of the snowboard manufacturing process. You will have the opportunity to embrace and drive new manufacturing technologies and share your knowledge of alternative manufacturing processes.
What You Get to Do:
- Perform the physical labor to create snowboard prototypes, including lay-up, grinding, finishing, and procurement. Complete a job request from start to finish, building to an engineering design request to meet the desired outcome.
- Run and maintain equipment, including woodworking and metalworking machines like routers, shapers, sanders, and grinders.
- Participate in the Burton Protoshop’s on-going desire for efficiency and innovation by bringing new ideas and manufacturing experience.
- Be responsible for the “design for manufacturing” process.
- Utilize craftsmanship and hands to create new processes and prototypes.
- Utilize and share your experience in building snowboards and snowboard processing.
- Utilize and share your experience in materials and construction.
- Other duties may be assigned.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
- A depth of experience, knowledge and skill in a technical/functional area including materials, construction and manufacturing process.
- Proven hands-on experience in manufacturing, materials, or product construction—ideally within the snowboard or hardgoods space.
- A keen eye for quality, efficiency and attention to detail.
- The ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach.
- The ability to develop, support, or sponsor the introduction of new and improved methods, products, procedures, or technologies that meet a customer need.
- The ability and desire to work cooperatively with others to improve overall team performance. The ability to demonstrate desire, skill, and success in getting groups to work together.
- The ability to methodically problem solve and to identify work to be done on a project and/or issues that may impede its completion; the ability to act before the situation requires it.
- Bonus: the ability to read engineering requirements/CAD and translate into a design is a plus.
- Bonus: knowledge of CNC machining, snowboard machinery, and programming is a plus.
Work/Physical Environment:
This is a mobile position, which will require walking and standing on the feet for the majority of the day in a manufacturing setting. This position requires the ability to lift at least 25+lbs frequently.
This is a seasonal position, typically ending in April.
