About JORI — Designed for dynamic seating
Together with international top designers, JORI creates ergonomic and personalized seating, passionately crafted in its Belgian ateliers. The subtle interplay between traditional craftsmanship and premium materials guarantees a sublime finish and an exceptionally long lifespan. For more than sixty years, this has been the essence of JORI’s success: furniture that offers an unrivalled seating comfort, day after day. Designed for dynamic seating.
Please consult our latest job opportunities (m/f): (Some are only available in Dutch)
- Maintain and deepen relationships with existing dealers while actively developing new partnerships in Bavaria, Switzerland, and Austria.
- Support and train sales staff so they can convincingly represent JORI’s values and comfort DNA.
- Represent JORI at trade fairs, events, and commercial meetings, strengthening our brand presence in the region.
- Monitor market and design trends, analyze competition, and translate opportunities into concrete actions.
- Accurately record sales activities in the CRM system and monitor your targets.
- Collaborate closely with the sales, marketing, and product development teams, reporting to the Sales Manager.
- You cut and sew leather and fabric covers for our latest models.
- You translate designs into digital cutting and sewing plans for our CNC machines.
- You train colleagues in the cutting and sewing workshop and share your expertise.
- You actively contribute to the digitalisation of the department and think along about improvements.
- You are part of the R&D team, collaborating closely with the sewing workshop and the R&D manager.
- Upholster the frames of new models and complete the first prototypes – from foam to finished seating.
- Collaborate closely with our frame builders, sewing department, and R&D project leaders to complete the puzzle together.
- Share your expertise: guide upholsterers and assemblers to ensure smooth production of new models.
- Contribute to instructions and test setups that form the foundation of our top quality.
- Act not only as a prototype maker but also as a true bridge builder within the R&D team.
- Upholster frames with leather or fabric, ensuring a perfectly finished result.
- Work closely with the assembly department – occasionally lending a hand there as well.
- Think along, solve practically, and raise the quality bar together with your team.
- Work in an environment where craftsmanship and modern techniques complement each other.
The R&D product developer coordinates the development process of new models and accomplishes the following tasks :
- As an R&D product developer, you support the full life cycle of a product.
- Translating design proposals of external designers into technically elaborate, feasible concepts.
- Building prototypes using various prototype technologies (2D/3D-CAD tools, 3D-printing, virtual prototyping, comfort models, …) in order to obtain a concept approval of the marketing team.
- Project based coordination of the multidisciplinary development process, while monitoring quality, timing milestones and target cost.
- Making ready for production and ensuring product validation (Industrial Release) of a new model.
As a Senior profile & Team Leader you also contribute to:
- Improvement processes that can realised within the department.
- Together with management, set the long and short term R&D objectives and play a crucial role in realizing them.
- Guide and coach the entire R&D team consisting of R&D engineers, model makers/prototypists and technical draftsmen.
- Set up, follow up and realize the planning of the entire team so that the set deadlines (e.g. trade fairs) are met.
- You report to the COO.
If you are interested in (one of) the job opportunities listed above, please send your comprehensive cv to:
JORI n.v.
HR Department
Hoogweg 52
B-8940 Wervik
Tel. +32-(0)56-31.35.01
E-mail [email protected].
All job applications are handled with discretion.