Work Flexibility: Onsite
Industrial Design Engineer
Position Summary:
You will work within our world-class industrial design team based in the Innovation Centre Cork, Ireland. You will be dedicated to supporting our business working with interdisciplinary teams globally to research, design, and develop next-generation aesthetic, ergonomic, and functional prototypes, devices, and systems with the best user experiences.In this highly collaborative role, you will work closely with a team of talented designers, researchers, engineers and marketers who are driven to deliver innovative, human-centered solutions for the healthcare industry. You will be a part of a design team that is responsible for driving the vision for the future of Stryker products.
What You Will Do
- Act in the role of the product development team’s synthesizer, using a diverse set of design tools and methods to gain valuable feedback from the team and our customers.
- Assure product concepts proposals are inclusive of market winning attributes consistent with, or inspired by, global design and technology trends.
- Responsible for defining Stryker product offerings, form development, human factors and ergonomics, material selection, finishes, color, brand language and graphical user interfaces.
- Implement the product visual brand language in accordance to the business’s product line and portfolio.
- Inform the project team of key trends in design related topics such as product design, color, materials and finishes.
- Work to support a product development team with visual communication in all phases of the product development process.
- Responsible for realizing concepts through sketching, visual storytelling and physical prototypes, CAD, 3D rendering, 3D printing, prototyping, finishing, painting and testing.
- Conduct, interpret and present design research and findings.
- Work collaboratively within a team of talented designers.
What you will need:
- Bachelor’s Degree is required in Industrial Design / Product Design / Interaction design (1:1 strongly preferred)
- Masters in design, Medical Device Design or Human Factors or Interaction design is highly advantageous.
- Analog and or Digital sketching and visualization skills.
- Working knowledge of design process, design principles and engineering principles.
- Understanding of design research methods, analysis and design input refinement.
- Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience in the medical field is a plus but not required.
- Must have excellent communication skills to lead conversations, solve technical challenges and participate in discussions with other global SME's on design related challenges and innovative opportunities.
- Have a designer portfolio that demonstrates your process, research methodologies, concept designs and more about you.
- Demonstrable experience working as part of a team.
- Good Industrial design sketching and oral and visual presentation techniques to communicate your ideas.
- Very good model-making skills are required to communicate the product look and feel of your designs.
- High level of competency using in Solidworks or Creo (Rhino, Blender, Fusion 360 also considered)
- High level of competency using in the Adobe Create suite software programs like Illustrator and Photoshop.
Travel Percentage: 10%