Product Designer

Our Client, based in Bolton, is looking for a Product Designer to join their fresh thinking, innovative and creative team. They are looking for someone who is experienced in designing electrical and household products and soft furnishings and used to working at a fast pace. This is a great opportunity to join a well-established yet growing company.

Essentially you will be working in a similar role. You will be used to dealing with clients face to face, have pricing experience and ideally have experience travelling to the Far East to deal with manufacturers.

This is a varied role where you will be working on designs throughout the whole process from taking a design brief, creating designs using Illustrator, sourcing cost effective materials, through to the end production. This is an office based role but there will be travelling to client sites involved as well as annual trips to the Far East.
Duties will be:
• Meeting with clients face to face
• Taking briefs
• Designing household products, electrical and soft furnishings to match client’s specifications
• Designing products in a cost effective way
• Liaising with Manufacturers in the Far East
• Seeing each design through to production
• Travelling to client sites
• Annual trips to the Far East
What we are looking for is:
• A graduate with a degree (or equivalent) in Product Design (or similar)with a few years’ experience working as a Product Designer
• Working knowledge of Illustrator
• A creative eye
• A good mechanical ability
• A team player
• Experience designing household products, electrical and soft furnishings
• Commercial awareness
• Face to face experience with clients
• Good grasp of costing
• Ability to work at a fast pace
In return you can expect:
• Salary: £26,000per year– £26,000 per year
• Free Parking
• Hours 8:30 – 5pm Monday to Thursday with an early finish
• Opportunity to travel to the Far East