Product Development Designer

Pyramid8 are recruiting for a talented, passionate and highly motivated Product Development Designer with superb technical abilities. Your portfolio will need to demonstrate your undoubted technical ability as well as being able to bring a fresh approach to an already highly talented multi-disciplinary team. Do you live and breathe great design? If so then this is an outstanding career opportunity within a brilliant brand implementation company, working with some of the biggest global brands. You will have a strong understanding of design for manufacture, be a hands-on product development designer with project leading abilities, coupled with supreme job running attributes and first-class presentation skills. We are looking for someone who has a great technical understanding of working with metalwork (mainly sheet metal and box / tube section based), and a thorough technical joinery knowledge. This accompanied with full capabilities of the respective materials. The ideal candidate should have worked within the production of Retail Display & Furniture solutions at various levels and have knowledge of but not limited to, concept, technical specification, manufacture and installation. Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities: * Engineer products from concept to manufacture for prototype and roll out programmes whist working with clients, design agencies and manufacturers. * Produce well engineered, cost effective products that can be manufactured in various locations around the world. * Create engineering drawing packs, to be used as translation documents for manufacture, for multi-disciplined manufacturing techniques. * Creating visuals and general arrangement drawings for client presentation / sign off procedures. * Develop / engineer various internal & external components. * Produce fully developed / engineered components ready for manufacture for prototyping, bespoke and roll out components. * Produce technical drawings / Solidworks assemblies ready for manufacture. * Produce concept visuals for client presentations. Knowledge, Skills & Attributes: * Excellent research skills for new products, materials and processes. * Experienced in materials and various manufacturing techniques: joinery, signage, metal fabrication etc. * Degree in a Design / Engineering related qualification. * Proficient in MS packages and Solidworks, Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite. * Must have solid industry experience including the ability to design for manufacture. * Excellent communication skills, comfortable and confident communicating with clients, internal project management, internal & external manufacturing teams. * Must possess design project management skills including the ability to work independently, strong time management and confidence to flag issues and provide solutions. * Flexibility to meet deadlines to produce the required output, including after-hours work. * Must be extremely detail orientated and work well in a fast paced environment. * Experience in the production of Retail Display & Furniture components is essential