Industrial Designer

Description

Position at Conair LLC

About Us:

Conair is a leading international designer, manufacturer, and marketer of branded personal care and small kitchen appliances, cookware, hairbrushes & accessories, cosmetic bags, and travel accessories.

Conair has always been driven by a passion for innovation; it’s part of the Company’s DNA. Trendsetting products have been invented by Conair since its inception in 1959, keeping the Company always a step ahead of the competition. The company's domestic and international divisions offer a diversified mix of consumer and professional products sold in over 120 countries. The Family of Conair brands includes CONAIR, Cuisinart, BabylissPRO, Scünci , TRAVELSMART by CONAIR, and Waring.

Conair’s passion for innovation gets stronger with each decade, as evidenced by the over 1,000 patents the Company has obtained worldwide. Today, Conair and its brands are names known throughout the world. Conair continues to introduce its brands to new and emerging markets, year after year. By the 1990s, most households in America owned at least one Conair product. Today many have more than one, and the Company’s goal is to ensure that every household in the world eventually owns one of our products.

At Conair, we inspire our customers with innovative high-quality products and

iconic brands that enhance their lives.

Position Summary:

Industrial Designers at Conair are very hands-on. They help create our products, work in partnership with our engineers, create prototypes, test their concepts with real users. The designer’s ultimate goal is for our products to help improve the way people live and work. We especially love quick thinkers, problem solvers and good communicators with a well-developed sense of form, proportion, color and materials.

Key Responsibilities:

Research industry products and build a knowledge base of product trends through conversations with production, engineering and marketing professionals which will lead to new product design ideas
Work with the team in order to understand design parameters within defined product categories
Create preliminary artistic drawings in the form of illustrations for product concepts, present them to the team for feedback and creatively use the feedback to refine product design
Use CAD software to create and refine designs to create virtual models of product rendering in Keyshot software
Utilize 3D printing to create product prototypes that are both non-functional and working in order to evaluate their practicality
Collaborate with a team of marketing and engineers to evaluate product prototypes in order to determine production feasibility and costs

Qualifications/skills:

2-5 years of experience as an industrial designer
Comfortable using basic tools to assemble and disassemble production appliances for internal study and redesign
Strong 2D skills like hand sketching, Illustrator and Photoshop rendering
3D Software experience with Creo or Solidworks solid and surface modeling
Collaboration
Thrives in a fast-paced environment
Ability to multi-task
Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (mainly Outlook for email)
Keyshot software knowledge
An incurable curiosity relating to all things design
Passion for conceptualizing and designing meaningful product solutions for people in their homes (personal care industry or consumer goods experience a plus).
Comfortable with making quick 3d prints and rough prototypes
No fear of teamwork, brainstorming sessions or presenting in front of your team

Environmental Factors:

Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
Must be able to sit for extended periods of time.
Must be able to use a computer keyboard and view a monitor for extended periods of time.
This role requires on-site presence Monday through Friday.

What we offer:

Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision plans
Generous Paid Time Off Programs
Life & Disability Insurance
FSA/HSA/Dependent Care FSA
Paid Parental Leave
401k and company match
EAP & Employee Wellness Programs
Volunteer Days Paid Time Off