Description
Summary:- Develop and design manufactured products.
Major Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer aided design equipment.
- Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
- Coordinate the look and function of product lines.
- Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products.
- Read publications, attend showings, and study competing products and design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and generate design concepts.
- Design graphic material for use as illustration or advertising on manufactured materials and packaging or containers.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in industrial design, architecture or engineering preferred but not required.
- Two to four years design experience required.
Skills and Competencies:
- Creativity, verbal and written communication skills and problem solving ability.
- Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principals involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings and models.
- Previous experience using the computer to create layouts and generate new images.
- Experience with Adobe imaging software (ie, Illustrator, Photoshop), computer aided design (CAD) software and graphics software.
- Preferred: Creo 2.0 and Teamcenter experience in the client's customized environment. Solidworks experience a plus.