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Scotts Valley, CA (Santa Cruz Area), CA

Full-time | Design - Product, Development - Product, Engineering, Production

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Join our talented team. Employees at Vista Outdoor are passionate and committed to delivering quality products to our customers. Our culture centers on an engaged and accountable workforce. Our goal is to attract and retain a diverse workforce: rich in talent, background, ideas and experience.

Vista Outdoor is seeking a Senior Industrial Designer to add to our team to support Bell Helmets at the Scotts Valley, CA, location. The Senior Industrial Designer will be responsible for developing individual products and complete product lines of moderate to extreme levels of difficulty. The Sr. Industrial Designer will communicate concepts through the use of shape, volume, ergonomics and other design techniques in coordination with other cross-functional teams. Follow Bell design language.

Responsibilities:
- Keep informed of design, research, engineering and marketing developments to constantly improve design ability, related product and industry knowledge.
- Study consumer trends related to design.
- Collaborating with Engineering: Determine materials, construction, mechanisms, shape, color, surface finish, manufacturing processes, and packaging in cooperation with other business functions involved in the development of new products.
- Contribute to, and work within criteria established for the project by other business functions.
- Able to direct the execution of design concepts and ideas by others in 2-D or 3-D as deemed appropriate.
- Work closely with Sales, Marketing, and Mechanical Engineering staff.
- Design new products working in conjunction with Mechanical Engineers to combine function and aesthetics into market leading products
- Coordinate research regarding materials and constructions for all projects.
- Create hand mock-ups and prototypes to evaluate conceptual designs, CAD 3D prints.
- Direct the efforts of inside and outside resources to create drawings, models and prototypes
- Create drawings and specifications to translate ideas into models and working prototypes
- Create and maintain design documentation such as assembly drawings, product and material specifications, bill of materials, etc. to assure quality in product designs
- Conduct cost analysis on new product designs
- Evaluate designs relative to applicable safety standards
- Test functional prototypes to verify design intent through virtual or physical methods
- Work with Manufacturing Engineering and Operations departments to improve cost and ease of manufacturing throughout development and after product launch
- Acknowledge that your work affects the quality level of the final product
- Complete product design process within the timelines established to ensure timely delivery of product to market
- Take on minor, major and platform level projects
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