Staff Industrial Designer - Storage

Key Responsibilities

• Concept Generation: Explore ideas through ideation, competitive assessments, and identification of unmet user needs. Collaborate with future conceptual teams to explore ideas for the future of Milwaukee.
• Design Development: Create designs using paper and digital sketching, technical drawings, renderings, 2D illustrations, 3D CAD, and hand-built mock-ups and models. Consider manufacturing and cost parameters. Develop products that fit into a complex system.
• Visual Storytelling: Communicate design intent through visual storytelling to gain acceptance from the project team.
• Innovation: Be very curious and seek to understand and inject innovation into all programs and tasks.
• Form Development: Demonstrate a strong understanding of form development and the ability to create designs without predecessors.
• Collaboration: Participate in brainstorming and concept generation events. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, primarily marketing and engineering, to deliver designs based on established criteria. Attend weekly meetings, teleconferences, and lead design reviews with process partners and design peers.
• Documentation: Create necessary documentation to convey design solutions to management or cross-functional partners through renderings, models, mechanical drawings, and written reports. Present designs for milestone approval to marketing and engineering leadership.
• Ergonomics and Usability: Evaluate and apply fundamentals of ergonomics and usability to product solutions.
• Research Participation: Participate in internal research downloads, review research reports, and engage in hands-on project activities. Regularly participate in observational job site visits to understand user requirements. Collaborate with Design Research and Product Management teams to analyze and shape observations into valuable insights.
• Trend Monitoring: Continually monitor design trends involving form, materials, technology, etc..
• Manufacturing Integration: Partner closely with engineering and suppliers to ensure design intent is maintained through manufacturing. Develop solutions optimized for injection molding, assembly processes, and scalable production while balancing cost, quality, and performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of professional design experience.
• Strong understanding of form development and the ability to innovate.
• Proficiency in paper and digital sketching, technical drawings, renderings, 2D illustrations, 3D CAD, and model making.
• Excellent communication skills for presentations, visual storytelling, and working with global partners.
• Able to work on multiple projects concurrently and adapt to changes quickly.
• Knowledge of ergonomics, usability, and manufacturing processes.
• Familiarity with Milwaukee products and use of tools in general is a plus.