Structural Designer 3

Job Description

Participates in and leads the design phase of a project beginning with analysis of the objectives, creative structural design and engineering of working prototypes, and on into production while meeting all manufacturing criteria and customer expectations. Provides visual solutions for packaging, advertising, and sales support needs by creating designs and copy layouts.

Responsibilities:

Lead packaging design projects from inception into production and maintain effective communication to team.

Assesses information provided by clients, business development, sales, manufacturing, and project managers to create innovative structural design solutions, considering visual and structural integrity and cost effective manufacturability and assembly.

Designs and produces visual communication in a variety of formats and materials, including structural prototypes, mock-ups, three-dimensional drawings, illustrative renderings, technical drawings, and assembly instructions.

Consistently interact directly with clients as the subject matter expert to obtain project related information and provide guidance on design reasoning.

Ensure new designs are created for optimum efficiency for production.

Create high-end, flawless packaging prototypes for customer presentations.

Create organized, clear, and consistent specifications, dielines, and BOMs.

Be able to interpret concrete and abstract direction from clients, sales and management to develop a solution that exceeds customer expectations.

Work collaboratively with design team members to identify and develop the best possible packaging solution.

Effectively communicate reasoning behind design decisions.

Maintain clear organization of large ongoing projects involving a multitude of components and revisions.

Remain up to date on new packaging trends, materials, and technology.