Industrial Designer (Seating)

Teknion Corporation; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 67,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Teknion Corporation is seeking an Industrial Designer to lead design activities within a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring design integrity and quality across stages of development.

You will guide a Junior Industrial Designer, manage communications and deliverables, and contribute to the design brief for seating products, aligning with portfolio language and performance criteria.

Qualifications

• Experience in industrial design within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to generate and document design concepts and guidelines.
• Strong communication and collaboration with internal and external design resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide design guidance to Junior Industrial Designer to ensure design integrity and quality.
• Manage design activities, deliverables and communications within the stage gate process.
• Contribute to the design brief and execution for new seating products and ensure portfolio fit and performance.

Skills

Industrial Design

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

CAD software

Rendering tools

Job description

The Industrial Designer is responsible for providing product design solutions, while also providing limited guidance to the Junior Industrial Designer. They are responsible for managing the design activities, documentation, communications and deliverables related to the stage gate development process within a multi-disciplinary team environment.

LEADERSHIP

Product Design Integrity

• Provide design guidance to the Junior Industrial Designer to ensure product design intent, integrity and quality of execution as well as knowledge transfer throughout the development process.

Multi-disciplinary Development Team activities

• Manage the development, deliverables, and communications activities between the (multi-disciplinary) project team members related to the industrial design activities to meet project objectives.

Product Definition and execution

• Contribute to the definition (design brief) and execution (often including outside collaboration) of the product design solution for new seating products, and to ensure its portfolio fit, design language, and performance requirements and meeting all design brief requirements.
  People
• Contribute to the advancement of professional practice of the industrial design specific to the evolving Seating development activities.
• Provide guidance to internal and outside design consulting resources to ensure both the program requirements (deliverables, schedule, etc) and the design requirements (portfolio fit, aesthetics, comfort and performance etc) are met.

COMMUNICATIONS

Development team and Design Management

• Ensure accurate and timely communication of all status and content issues between relevant stake holders in multi-disciplinary development team and design management.

Client and Sales assist interface

• Act as a representative of the Seating design department as part of the Teknion client experience .
  

Documentation

• Communicate and demonstrate all aspects of the product design through a series of different media appropriate to the stages of development including: sketches, renderings, development prototype models, CAD models, and slide development documentation and presentations.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Product Definition

• Generate and document new product concepts and design language guidelines in response to Market and Design research activities of the evolving needs of the workplace that ultimately support the creation of the Design Brief or PDO.
• Contribute directly to the Design Research activities through field observation, client interaction, Design Discovery Sprints, design insights activities.

Development

• To provide insight and decisions on all design related issues in the cross disciplinary development discussions to collectively solve new product issues including manufacturability, function, appearance, product application, CMF, product offering, testing, etc.
• To function with limited supervision in executing the assigned projects, including decision making, working with outside consultants, design engineering and Product Management.
• To develop new products through a systematic process of stage gate activities and deliverables according to a predetermined launch schedule.

The expected base salary range for this position will be start at $74,410.00. Final base salary offers will reflect an assessment of the selected candidate's skills, demonstrated competencies, and adherence to our internal pay equity framework.

Teknion is committed to supporting a culture of diversity and accessibility across the organization, starting with the hiring process. It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment and support a diverse workforce.

Teknion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

By applying for a position with Teknion, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Teknion's employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, credit check and criminal check. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.