Senior Industrial Designer

Marmon Foodservice Technologies • Full-time • Carol Stream, Illinois, United States • $110k - $140k / year • 1w ago

Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.

Come join a team where People make the difference! As a part of Marmon Holdings, Inc., a highly decentralized organization, we rely heavily on people with the aptitude, attitude, and entrepreneurial spirit to drive our success, and we're committed to attracting and retaining top talent.

About The Job

Though you may not know us by name, you’ve most likely enjoyed meals and refreshments supported by our industry-leading brand portfolio. For decades, we’ve designed and manufactured foodservice equipment for some of the world’s biggest, most recognized consumer brands. We are driven to innovate with a clear purpose in mind: revolutionize the future of foodservice.

As Senior Industrial Designer, you’ll be part of a team of thoughtful, curious problem solvers with a service mindset that thrives on creating great design and user experiences. You’ll be responsible for executing the design process and leading design POV from concept to production, ensuring our products are visually compelling, user-centric, and manufacturable. In this role, your passion for industrial design and innovation will help to ensure we continue to offer cutting-edge and reliable products that exceed customer expectations and secure our market advantage.

What You’ll Do

Serve as a key contributor, a team leader, and a three-dimensional thinker focused on harmonizing form and user experience with functional and manufacturing requirements.
Lead and articulate design POV in a cross-functional, matrixed project team while producing project deliverables on time and on spec.
Oversee multiple industrial design initiatives, prioritizing workstreams amid sometimes conflicting interests, recognizing and communicating risk when it arises.
Drive a strong, user-centered approach through research, ideation, and iterative concept development to consistently deliver high product value.
Work closely with design engineers and system engineers to ensure smooth implementation and handling of design concepts through the NPD process
Alongside user experience designers, create seamless physical/ digital experiences that evolve our visual brand language across the portfolio of products.
Support advanced R&D functions to investigate new technologies, materials and techniques to support product roadmaps and enhance brand value proposition.
Alongside product management and sales functions, lead design research to gather stakeholder insights, identify latent user needs, and customer requirements to inform design concept ideation and development.
Mentor junior level designers as a collaborative teammate and project leader

Who You Are

Collaborative Partner: A strong listener, curious observer and supportive partner in leveraging the power of a focused team to bring inspired product solutions to market.
Curious Problem Solver: You possess a set of learned, self-made, borrowed, and stolen research tools that you deploy to understand context, problem states, and stakeholder needs to get to the heart of the matter. You draw from experience, intuition and empathy to inform you and your team throughout the design process.
Self-Starter: Comfortable with leading projects independently, under general direction and minimal guidance. Ability to recognize when you need help and the sense of urgency to ask for appropriate resources.
Communicator: Ability to present design work to all levels of the organization, gather feedback and insights from leadership, peers, and various outside stakeholders.
Optimizer: You find ways to continuously improve processes, refine methods and processes, and boost team performance.

Skills/Experience We’re Looking For

Excellent conceptual skills and ability to rapidly ideate and describe concepts clearly
A refined design process that underpins your approach to problem definition, concept development and product solutions
Demonstrated experience in product design and development that is supported by a strong understanding of business objectives, product trends, manufacturing processes, and material properties
A highly motivated collaborator and problem-solver who can mentor team members in developing necessary skills and achieving strategic and career goals.
Ability to navigate a hybrid work model, optimizing studio time with the team while balancing heads-down work remotely.
Advanced proficiency with SolidWorks, Keyshot, and Adobe Creative Suite
Familiarity with user experience research methodologies, UI design, Figma

Required Qualifications

Bachelors or Masters degree in Industrial Design
7+ years of professional experience in design consultancy or in-house manufacturing
A strong original portfolio of creative work demonstrating process and outcomes from concept to launch
Expert skills in 3D modeling in Solidworks

Benefits

We support your well-being with comprehensive and easy-to-use benefits you can enroll in on your first day of employment. Here are some of the highlights:

Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug insurance plans
Access to a Health Advocate who is an expert in Marmon’s health plan and can help you select the best health benefits for you and your family.
Tax-advantaged spending accounts for health and dependent care expenses
Wellness programs and resources, including Telehealth, Mental Health, Fitness, and Family Planning
Generous paid time off for personal use, holidays, and parental leave
Company-sponsored life insurance
401(k) with fully vested company match; Marmon may also make an additional annual discretionary contribution to your account, whether you contribute independently.
Financial and retirement advising

Target Annualized Compensation: $110,000 - $140,000

About Marmon Holdings

Marmon Holdings, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, comprises 11 groups and more than 100 autonomous businesses with total annual revenue of $10 billion. Marmon’s 28,000-plus team members are celebrating the company's 70th anniversary in 2023 and helping write the next chapter of Marmon's story.

Following receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processes as permitted or required by applicable law.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to their membership in any protected class. If you require any reasonable accommodation to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email your request to careers@marmon.com, and please be sure to include the title and the location of the position for which you are applying.