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Role Overview
- Develop 3D pack architecture and produce detailed, manufacturer ready CAD models and technical drawings
- Own tolerancing, GD&T, draft angles, wall thicknesses and other DFM parameters across the product range
- Build functional and visual prototypes for research, validation, and internal sign-off
- Maintain accurate, up to date design documentation, tech packs and specs throughout the product lifecycle
- Support the briefing process, collaborating and guiding the design delivery of external engineering and simulation agencies
- Assess manufacturing routes, tooling and materials with quality, cost and sustainability in mind, knowing where to push and where to compromise
- Work directly with suppliers and manufacturers on feasibility, ensuring design intent survives the journey from concept to shelf
- Lead tooling kick-off and manage the relationship with manufacturers through to production ready tech packs
- Validate pre-production samples and sign off on gold samples against technical specification
- Troubleshoot quality issues as they arise, working with suppliers to find practical, lasting solutions
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve manufacturability, sustainability and cost within both new and existing products
- Identify and evaluate materials and finishes against manufacturability, durability and sustainability criteria
- Ensure material and finish choices are technically sound and consistent across the product range
- Support structural concept development from brief, translating ideas into technically feasible product designs
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in industrial or product design, with a strong emphasis on design for manufacture, ideally within personal care, consumer goods or packaging
- Strong proficiency in 3D CAD software and demonstrable ability to produce and interrogate detailed technical drawings, tolerancing and GD&T
- A thorough understanding of design for manufacture, you know what's achievable, what will cost too much, and how to push for quality within real constraints
- Hands-on experience working directly with external manufacturers and suppliers, from feasibility conversations through to production sign-off and tooling
- A portfolio demonstrating technical rigour: CAD output, tech packs, tolerancing and manufacturing outcomes, alongside a solid but secondary grounding in concept sketching and CMF
- Working knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes relevant to packaging (injection moulding, tooling, finishing) and their cost and sustainability trade-offs
- Comfortable with KeyShot, Solidworks or similar for technical visualisation
- A self-starter mentality: as our first industrial design hire, you'll need to be confident operating independently and building process as you go
- Ambition to grow, this is a role with a long runway, and we'd love to find someone who wants to help shape this function over time
Benefits
- 25 days holidays + bank holidays + 9 extra remote working days
- Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our shiny new London office
- Enhanced maternity, paternity & parental leave
- 4% Company Pension
- Mental well-being support through Spill
- Private healthcare through Vitality
- Weekly early finishes and social events
- Annual L&D budget
- Free breakfast
- Free & discounted Wild products
- 2 x team volunteering days and 2 x personal volunteering days