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

To support the design and development of innovative consumer, industrial and medical products at OPD.
Industrial Designer Vacancy at OPD

About you

We’re looking for an experienced Industrial Designer with a minimum of 3 years of experience, preferably gained within a consultancy environment.

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

  • 01
    Employee benefit schemes available
    • Employee Assistance Programme
    • Pension scheme
    • Sabbatical scheme
    • ECV car scheme
    • Season ticket loan
  • 02
    Private healthcare
  • 03
    Paid leave for those extra special days
    • Your birthday
    • Your wedding day
    • The day you’re moving house
    • Your child's first day at school
  • 04
    Cycle to work scheme
  • 05
    Holiday options

    We provide purchase and buy back options for your annual leave.

  • 06
    Ten days training per year

    With a training budget of up to 5% of your annual salary.

  • 07
    Generous 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)
apply now