Job Description

General Responsibilities:
Your daily activities will vary depending on the stages of your projects, but you will be spending your time...

• Ideating through communicative hand/digital sketching and rough mock-ups
• Using SolidWorks to build your ideas, leading to 3D printed or hand-built functional prototypes to validate your ideas
• Making stuff with your hands, breaking stuff, making it again, only better
• Making beautiful forms in CAD or by hand- whatever works for you.
• Communicating ideas/design specs and providing feedback to colleagues in the Midwest/Southeast U.S. and Asia using PowerPoint. Like everywhere else these days, lots of video conferencing, but in-person meetings are best. Must be willing to travel.
• Delivering highly refined 3D CAD models and supporting documentation to engineering/manufacturing counterparts throughout the design phase
• Preparing concept digital renderings for focus groups and management presentations
• Installing car seats in lots of cars, repeatedly.
• Interacting with caregivers, medical professionals and toddlers
• Participating in/assessing consumer research/Marketing direction to identify opportunities for innovation in child safety and consumer convenience
• Increasing your knowledge and worth by participating in child safety programs, conventions, community car seat checks and completing safety education

Required Technical, Core Competencies

• Excellent 3D CAD surfacing, modeling and rendering skills (SolidWorks required. CREO/Rhino/Alias experience is a plus, as is Keyshot or similar rendering program)
• Strong conceptual sketching skills
• Expertise in Photoshop/Sketch Book (or similar), Adobe Illustrator, Power Point.
• Keen sensitivity to form, proportion, color and detail
• Strong mechanical aptitude and understanding of basic engineering principles,
• Thorough knowledge of injection molding- draft constraints, line of draw, fit and finish
• Able to work independently, as well as within a coordinated team environment
• Finds quick ways to validate ideas and choosing a course of action to meet your goal
• Can quickly get up to speed on the child safety marketplace and product trends
  The ideal candidate will need to be more than a stylist and CAD wiz. We'll rely on you to come up with a dozen ways to solve a problem, zero in on the best idea, refine it, validate it and make it a reality. If you're a designer who is excited about the problem you're solving because you care deeply about what you do, take pride in your work, and want to create a product that will save lives, get in touch.We'd love to hear from you.

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