Industrial Designer

Own early design decisions that shape real products. As an Industrial Designer in Staffordshire (hybrid, two days on site), you’ll turn defined opportunities into clear, well-reasoned concepts. £40,000–£45,000, hybrid working, and purposeful UK/international travel tied to collaboration and supplier engagement.


Scope of the Role

The Industrial Designer drives concept generation at the front end, translating direction into strong proposals that move projects toward development readiness.

  • Generate and develop concepts from early exploration to refined proposals.
  • Use sketching, mock-ups, and visual storytelling to ideate quickly.
  • Build and iterate concepts using 3D CAD and visualisation tools.
  • Translate feedback into clear design evolution and options.
  • Collaborate with engineers and suppliers to ensure feasibility.

Key Skills and Experience Required

  • Proven Industrial Designer, Product Designer (hardware) or Product Design Engineer for physical consumer products.
  • Front-end strengths: ideation, sketching, structured concept development.
  • Portfolio showing process clarity, not only final outputs.
  • Practical understanding of injection moulding, assembly and materials.
  • Comfortable shaping ambiguous briefs into focused exploration.

Salary and Benefits

  • £40,000 – £45,000 basic salary, depending on experience.
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy additional days.
  • Company bonus up to 10%.
  • Pension.
  • Staff discount.
  • Employee perk scheme with discounts available across high street stores, leisure outlets and supermarkets.
  • Immediate access to an Employee Assistance helpline, providing confidential telephone counselling and legal advice.
  • Hybrid working: minimum two days per week in Tamworth.

You’ll join a product organisation actively improving how design shapes decisions, with access to complex constraints, manufacturing realities, and experienced leadership. It’s a hands-on place for an Industrial Designer to sharpen craft, build trust, and strengthen the consistency of industrial design output.


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