Product Development Designer

Pyramid8 are recruiting for a talented, passionate and highly motivated Product Development Designer with superb technical abilities. Your portfolio will need to demonstrate your undoubted technical ability as well as being able to bring a fresh approach to an already highly talented multi-disciplinary team.

Do you live and breathe great design? If so then this is an outstanding career opportunity within a brilliant brand implementation company, working with some of the biggest global brands.

You will have a strong understanding of design for manufacture, be a hands-on product development designer with project leading abilities, coupled with supreme job running attributes and first-class presentation skills.

We are looking for someone who has a great technical understanding of working with metalwork (mainly sheet metal and box / tube section based), and a thorough technical joinery knowledge. This accompanied with full capabilities of the respective materials.

The ideal candidate should have worked within the production of Retail Display & Furniture solutions at various levels and have knowledge of but not limited to, concept, technical specification, manufacture and installation.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Engineer products from concept to manufacture for prototype and roll out programmes whist working with clients, design agencies and manufacturers.
• Produce well engineered, cost effective products that can be manufactured in various locations around the world.
• Create engineering drawing packs, to be used as translation documents for manufacture, for multi-disciplined manufacturing techniques.
• Creating visuals and general arrangement drawings for client presentation / sign off procedures.
• Develop / engineer various internal & external components.
• Produce fully developed / engineered components ready for manufacture for prototyping, bespoke and roll out components.
• Produce technical drawings / Solidworks assemblies ready for manufacture.
• Produce concept visuals for client presentations.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:

• Excellent research skills for new products, materials and processes.
• Experienced in materials and various manufacturing techniques: joinery, signage, metal fabrication etc.
• Degree in a Design / Engineering related qualification.
• Proficient in MS packages and Solidworks, Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Must have solid industry experience including the ability to design for manufacture.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable and confident communicating with clients, internal project management, internal & external manufacturing teams.
• Must possess design project management skills including the ability to work independently, strong time management and confidence to flag issues and provide solutions.

• Flexibility to meet deadlines to produce the required output, including after-hours work.
• Must be extremely detail orientated and work well in a fast paced environment.
• Experience in the production of Retail Display & Furniture components is essential.