Associate Industrial Designer

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Newell Brands is a leading $8.3B consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid® and Sharpie®, and 25,000 talented employees around the world. Our high-performance culture, unparalleled curiosity about the world around us, and talented people fuel our success. Our culture is enabled through our core values which guide all we do and how we win as One Newell. They are Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership & Leadership.

Welcome to Newell Brands Design, where we design products for major brands that impact people across the world. For hundreds of millions of consumers, Newell Brands makes life better every day, where they live, learn, work and play.

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM?

What if your design skills and experience could make a daily difference in people’s lives? And what if the design team working beside you was diverse, talented, and invested in each other’s success?

We are currently seeking an Associate Industrial Designer, focusing your amazing design talents in our Kalamazoo, MI Design Center

As an Associate Industrial Designer, you will partner with many other creatives in a variety of disciplines, such as Communication Design, Usability, CMF, and Fashion. Working in close collaboration with these talented professionals, you will jointly reimagine product lines that will live in people’s homes and offices across the globe.

Our working environment has everything you need to support your creative journey at Newell Brands Design; a fully equipped model shop, studios for collaboration, and flex spaces for a variety of projects that require unique needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate consumer insights into meaningful and innovative design solutions through ideation, CAD development, and prototyping
• Support conceptualization and development of new products on small and large programs in a team environment
• Galvanize support for your ideas through strong presentation and communication skills
• Leverage new, and existing Visual Design Language to maintain strong brand integrity
• Participate in consumer empathy research and design discovery
• Partner with Engineering to develop feasible products and validate prototypes
• Performs other duties as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design

• A recent graduate with 1-2 years of relevant experience (includes internship experience)
• Ability to travel at least once per quarter
• Demonstrate ability to work in team environments

• Ability to present in English.
• Basic Awareness of Industrial Design Fundamentals including: 2D & 3D modelling & visualization, aesthetic sensibility, Industrial Design research, prototyping, feasibility awareness, and principles of human factors.

Skills & Capabilities Overview:

• Design Fundamentals (Basic Awareness) Understands the principles of design applications within industrial design and has developed undergraduate level projects to the highest degree through illustration, rendering and modeling,
• Industrial Design Research (Basic Awareness) Understanding and experience of ethnographic research, principles of investigation, harvesting resources and information systems.
• Surface Development (Basic Awareness) Able to articulate how surfaces responds to light and environment.
• Study Models (Basic Awareness) Has developed undergraduate level project prototypes with the ability to think and communicate design in dimensions.
• Feasibility Engineering (Basic Awareness) Awareness of engineering processes. Mechanical, Process, Materials, Structural, etc.
• Visual Communications (Basic Awareness) Demonstrates understanding of the specific media and mediums resident within the fields of communication design and the fundamental design components of each.
• Digital Design Tools (Basic Awareness) Capable of navigating Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchbook Pro, Rhino (or other CAD)
• Materials and Methods (Basic Awareness) Knowledge of common materials and their manufacturing process with the ability to select for design intent.

• Solid Modeling (Basic Awareness) College level experience in building appearance models in support of design projects.
• Interface Design (Basic Awareness) Principles of human factors as it relates to controls and functional surfaces.
• Human Factors (Basic Awareness) Knowledge of Human Scale and basic ergonomic principles.

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.