Industrial Designer
- Location:
- Harwell, Didcot
- Location Type:
- Hybrid (1-2 days per week WFH)
- Type:
- Full-Time (Permanent)
About the role

About you
Role Responsibilities
- Producing innovative and technically excellent designs
- Communicating with clients clearly and confidently
- Delivering project outputs within scope, to time and on budget
- Collaborating effectively with colleagues
- Ability to work autonomously and independently when required, with a proactive approach regarding project deliverables and prioritisation
- Demonstrating good judgement in decision making
Role Requirements
- 3+ years of relevant Industrial Design experience
- Degree in Industrial Design
- A natural design eye, demonstrating variety and creativity
- Motivation towards the application of human factors to product development
- Excellent hand sketching and visualisation skills
- Ability to communicate design clearly and concisely
- Solid understanding of manufacturing techniques and consideration of their impact on design concepts
- Strong CAD surfacing skills [SolidWorks] and use of Adobe Creative Suite
- Rhino skills would be beneficial
- Full right to work in the UK, and no requirement for visa sponsorship in the future
Working at OPD
At Oxford Product Design (OPD) we’re on a mission to make things better. Better for the products we design, the clients we work with, our people working here, our planet, and everyone we connect with along the way.
Our exceptional team of professional problem solvers work with both start-ups on ground-breaking new ideas, as well as some of the world’s leading brands on category-defining products that improve how we humans live and work.
As innovators we are curious, experimental, creative and passionate. But our pragmatic, precise approach and highly technical expertise mean that manufacturability and risk management are at the core of everything we do.
We are based in a beautiful historic barn in Harwell, Oxfordshire. There is plenty of on-site parking and the studio is well connected by bus and rail links.
OPD Values
- collaborate - better together
Thoughtful and empathetic, we build strong relationships based on trust and respect. - innovate - curiosity-driven, evidence-led
As problem solvers, we are driven by curiosity and are motivated by our quest to make things better. - delight - customer first
We create value by combining disciplined rigour with agile thinking.
Company benefits
- 01Employee benefit schemes available
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme
- Sabbatical scheme
- ECV car scheme
- Season ticket loan
- 02Private healthcare
- 03Paid leave for those extra special days
- Your birthday
- Your wedding day
- The day you’re moving house
- Your child's first day at school
- 04Cycle to work scheme
- 05Holiday options
We provide purchase and buy back options for your annual leave.
- 06Ten days training per year
With a training budget of up to 5% of your annual salary.
- 07Generous holiday allowance
You’ll have 25 days holiday (pro rata) plus bank holidays.
How to apply
Send a copy of your CV, cover letter and portfolio letting us know why you’re a good fit for the role to jobs@opd.uk.com
Direct applicants only please, strictly no recruitment agencies.
- Location:
- Harwell, Didcot
- Location Type:
- Hybrid (1-2 days per week WFH)
- Type:
- Full-Time (Permanent)