Graduate Product Designer

Graduate Product Designer Job Location: Poole, Dorset Job Type: Permanent Salary: Up to £26,000 DOE + free onsite parking Hours: 34 hours per week (9am-5pm Monday – Thursday – 9am -4pm Friday) Benefits: * 34 HOUR WORKING WEEK! * Up to 31 days holiday to start including bank holidays, increasing to 36 days with service and the option to buy 4 days additional holiday every year * Free car parking * Various discounts available for shopping / cinema / gyms etc. * Life assurance * Fun, modern and friendly working environment * Excellent training * Regular company team building events An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Graduate Product Designer to work with a renowned company who design, manufacture and supply high quality homeware products to both the B2C & B2B market. This role is an excellent opportunity for a graduate who holds a BA in industrial design / product design and is looking to kickstart their career with a company that can offer fantastic progression and development. Working within the friendly product design team, you will design and develop products from initial concept through to final prototypes for internal brands and for leading national accounts such as John Lewis, Laura Ashley, Screwfix & Dunelm. Key responsibilities within this role will include: * Taking an active role in the conceptualisation and design development of new products and concepts * Planning and executing design projects based on given briefs and schedules, ensuring designs match briefs in all aspects of form, aesthetics, technical quality and costing * Bringing fresh and innovative ideas at each phase of design development * Communicating with team members in the design studio and across the business to enable the appropriate execution of projects * Creating visual customer product presentations and liaise with our national account customers * Determining materials, construction, colour and surface finishes * Liaising directly with manufacturing partners, using existing developed products and components where necessary to reduce development lead times and increase speed to market What you will need: * BA in Industrial Design or Product Design is essential * Working knowledge and experience in the use of Adobe Photoshop & illustrator * Excellent hand drawing / sketching 2D visualisation skills * Knowledge of any of the following design software and techniques in both 2D and 3D: Fusion 360, Solidworks, Creo, Rhino, 3DsMax * The ability to visualise designs as 3D models & mock up’s using our in-house design workshop * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Experience with rendering packages such as Key Shot is an advantage but is not essential Hours: 34 hours per week (9am-5pm Monday – Thursday – 9am -4pm Friday) If you are a recent graduate and studied a BA in Industrial / Product Design at the following universities please also get in touch; Coventry University; Northumbria University; Bournemouth University; Nottingham Trent University; Loughborough University; Sheffield Hallam University For more information about this brilliant opportunity please contact our Recruitment Team or apply with a full CV Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually so If you do not hear from us within 3 days please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles. Resource Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all its employees and job applicants equally. It is the policy of the Company to take all reasonable steps to ensure that each applicant is assessed only in accordance on the basis of their qualifications, skills and abilities to perform the relevant duties without prejudice in regards to background, religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or gender. By completing our application process, you are authorising us as a Recruitment Agency to contact you in connection with your application by email and / or telephone & SMS under GDPR Article 6(1) (a) and you are also consenting to receiving information via the same means in relation to Resource Recruitment providing you with work finding services. Our Privacy Policy can be viewed on our website under the Privacy Policy tab on our website. Should you wish, you may opt out at any time. Keywords; engineer; designer; design engineering; drawing office, draughtsman, draughtsperson, product design, CAD, Solidworks, Inventor; Poole; Bournemouth; Wareham; Blandford; Sturminster Marshall; Christchurch; Wimborne; Ferndown; Blandford; Verwood; Ringwood