Product Designer - Tennessee

## Description

**Job Summary**

The Product Designer primary responsibility is developing new Product/ideas through customer / project scopes. Interpret and convert our customer’s product specifications, technical drawings into information that is usable to produce a prototype. You will work together with our engineering, quality and production teams to help lead new product through all aspects of its production life.

**Job Responsibilities**

• Develop new product concepts based on customer and project requirements
• Taking part in daily, specialized and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Design, model and test prototypes. Use CAD to design concepts.
• Meeting with customers to go over new/existing design criteria and function. Travel may be required as per customer location.
• Accountable for producing/updating drawings, instructions and specifications to produce each product. (Documenting/photographing)
• Work in our operating system
• Working overtime or longer hours maybe required to meet customer/production deadlines.

**Job Skills and Qualifications**

• Experience in the canvas, awning, or marine manufacturing industry
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and time management skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Associate’s degree preferred
• Related on-job experience - 3 years.
• Vocational school training
• CAD, Solid Works Design/Drawing software
• Digitizer/Plotter classes or related experience
• Team Player- respect and work with team members, respect their thoughts and knowledge of each instance. Be good natured and have a cooperative attitude.
• Initiative/persistent- have willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. Be persistent when faced with obstacles
• Active Listening- giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, ask questions as appropriate, do not interrupt speaker until appropriate.
• Comprehend/Learn- understanding implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision making.
• Creative Thinking- developing, designing or creating applications, ideas, relationships, systems or product, including artistic contributions.
• Computers- using computers and computer systems to program, digitize, enter data and/or process information.
• Mechanical- understand how something works and have the ability to add to design for better function or adapt a new design.