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Senior Industrial Designer
Overview
Searching for experienced Senior Industrial Designer. Will be responsible for initiating and developing designs from concepts through production, following guidelines and directives defined by the Director of Product Design and Executive Management for the Design department. Consider factors influencing product design such as function, cost, selection of materials, production methods, new technology, safety, trends, ergonomics, environment, marketing and business strategy. Prepare presentation sketches showing style, size, shape, configuration of internal components, and general appearance of products either by hand or by computer. Create engineering drawings, renderings, and detailed diagrams of products. Modify designs where necessary to meet clients’ manufacturing or cost requirements.
Duties
• Designer will be involved with all stages of the product development process
• Participates in or reviews market research on new product concepts
• Research existing products related to product concepts under development, including review of competitive patents where appropriate
Prepares sketch drawings of potential products from general product concepts
• Prepares presentations to introduce potential products to Marketing
• Prepares 3-D CAD data for the development of functional prototypes
Qualifications
• Required: Bachelor’s degree: BS or BA in Industrial Design
• Required: 5+ years’ experience in Product Design & Development.
• Kitchen food prep tools a plus
• Required: SolidWorks – 5+ years of experience with advanced SolidWorks modeling. Surface Modeling is required.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating creative, artistic, and problem-solving skills and the ability to integrate those with functional utility to meet consumer demand and acceptance. Applications submitted without portfolio will not be considered.
Core Competencies
• Ability to balance design ownership with realities of manufacturability and engineering.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate easily with sketches
• 3D Printing and prototyping knowledge
• Strong concept / drawing / sketching / design skills or any other tools that will help to convey the idea of the design.
• High level of design standard, meticulous in the details and self-evaluation of own design esthetics.
• Basic knowledge of production methods, i.e. plastics, molds, wire forming, casting and forging, cut & sew, etc.
• Mechanical approach, understanding materials and limitation and possibilities.
• Highly creative with an engineering approach and detail oriented
• Highly self-motivated
• Hands-on team player with a distinguished flair to the creative process
• Well Organized
• Strong work ethic
Location
Must be local to Cleveland Ohio; hybrid work model – 3 days required in office.
