Industrial Designer
Title:
Industrial DesignerType:
Full Time PermanentStart Date:
ASAPSkills:
Requirements Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
(include but are not limited to):
- Essential experience in product design and plastic injection moulding
- Experience in sports and protective clothing as well Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) in military or industrial applications. (Desirable)
- Ensure manufacturability and process capability whilst producing detailed designs and drawings
- Transition designs into mass production
- Develop 3D models of products for prototyping and production with tight lead-times
- Generate design concepts for new products for enhancements
- Must have a creative and methodical approach to problem solving, whilst ensuring adherence to design.
- Flexibility to travel when required. The role will require international and national travel. Sometimes at late notice.
Experience Required:
- Extensive experience and proven track record of collaborating and leading multi-disciplinary teams to innovate and deliver with high quality in short time scales
- Experience in working with manufacturing in the far East.
- Vast practical experience with proven technical skills, and a significant time in a product design and engineering environment.
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Experience with IP68 rated waterproof products (an advantage)
- Able to work on own initiative, originality and creativity
- Degree educated with Industrial Design, Product Design or related science degree (or equivalent)
- Proficient in the use of 3D CAD (SolidWorks essential)
- Knowledge of advanced manufacturing
- Self Starter – ability to work independently, plan ahead and prioritize tasks
- Ability to work well in a fast paced team environment
- An exceptional and diverse portfolio.
Other attributes:
- Flexible in other related design disciplines. Eg. Packaging/Graphic design.
- Strong skills in Adobe Creative suite.
- Product photography.
Description:
Reporting into Head of Design, the role carries responsibility for adding value to the design proposition from earliest research and insight through to design for manufacture.
You will be working on projects in a diverse and growing product portfolio including Consumer, B2B, Structural Packaging, and with high confidentiality. Frequently in the form of world-first products.
The role requires a natural aptitude for aesthetic form, and close working with a team of Industrial/Product designers, engineers, and technologists; therefore an ability to observe and communicate evidence-based foundations for creative concepts, and an awareness of the wider technical, functional, cost, and manufacturing implications of your design thinking, to bring a product from concept to reality
You must have a keen interest in new technology and product design, and be able to generate ideas, Prototypes and presentation material of exceptional quality. You will need to have a minimum of 5 years professional activity and will neeed to demonstrate an outstanding design portfolio containing evidence of in-market products.
You will need to have exceptional graphical skills including rapid communication of ideas (from outstanding hand sketching, and full Adobe CS as a minimum), to proven 3D CAD competency (preferably Solidworks and/or ProE/Creo). Keyshot, rendering and 3D animation software expertise would be an advantage.
