Industrial designer

What will I do?
Concept design & development

• Work alongside the Design and Technical teams in creation of concept ideas to help generate initial prototypes for evaluation
• To help develop product concepts, integrating technical designs and constraints
• Assist in user research, generating ideas fed from user / market insights

New product development process

• Attend NPD workshops and meetings with the R&D and Operations team.
• Ability to understand technical constraints when creating designs for our product range.
• Work with suppliers to communicate design intent and manage cost and time constraints.
• Work within the Design and Engineering team to uphold brand intent and realise concept visions.
• Creation of on-product graphics including Brand-marking, regulatory labels – layouts / and 2D artworks for global ratings labels.
• Develop product peripherals (brushes, attachments etc).

What skills and qualities will I need?

• Minimum of three years industry experience.
• Degree educated with experience working in a Design consultancy or consumer products company.
• Proficient in 3D CAD. Ideally using Pro/Engineer or SolidWorks
• Ability to interpret briefs and communicate ideas with fluent / confident hand sketching skills.
• UX / ergonomics insight experience and translation into product concepts.
• Must have a sound knowledge of 2D Design packages – in particular the Adobe Suite.
• Ability to create high quality visualisation.
• Ability to manage external suppliers in the creation of visual models or prototypes.
• Self-motivated, with a positive and proactive approach.