For our Product Innovation department, we are looking for an Industrial Designer to join our Concept and Design team at Head Quarters in Odense. If you are an enthusiastic, committed, and talented designer, and feel motived by the prospect of joining us in providing fun and exercise for the happier, healthier communities of the future - then we would like to hear from you!
We are a dynamic cross-national team of more than 40 playground designers who create the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and bespoke play spaces and sport & fitness areas.
You will be a vital member of the HQ office with about 10 designers and workshop specialists, who are responsible for designing the products for our yearly launch of new and innovative products.
You will be in a dynamic cross-disciplinary environment, and work in close cooperation with colleagues from other departments like engineering, safety and our own KOMPAN Play Institute.
If the prospect of working with something as meaningful as contributing to the development of life skills and improving the health and happiness of generations to come - now is your opportunity.
Unleash your creativity
As an industrial designer in our Concept and Design team, you will be responsible for creating fitness and playground equipment and designing the various components of which they are built. You will be responsible for your "own" projects and are expected to ensure progress and manage time consumption and deadlines.
You will be doing this by employing your skills within research, sketching, ideation, 3D modelling, visualizing, prototyping, testing etc., and of course always in the fruitful cooperation with the rest of the team and your manager.
Further, your key tasks and responsibilities include:
• Create new innovative products and solutions
• Detailed design and development of product components, both high and low volume, with a strong focus on production methods and the manufacturing process
• Apply your skills within sketching, 3D-modelling, and prototyping
• Manage and ensure progress on projects from ideation to finalization
• Assist in the production of prototypes and attend user tests
• Attend (and sometimes conduct) meetings with specialists and stakeholders
• Ensure efficiency in collaborating with your colleagues through clear communication and hand-over.
A skilled and creative Industrial Designer with technical expertise
You are an industrial designer with a well-developed process and a strong set of skills.
You have a creative mindset and a good technical understanding combined with an ability to illustrate and communicate. You are motivated by working on a variety of tasks and have a well-developed knowledge within materials and production methods. You are efficient and balance time management and creativity.
You hold a degree in the fields of Industrial Design or similar. You are a team player with an ambition to learn and develop new skills. You are sociable and helpful with a can-do attitude and a positive outlook.
You are an experienced user of Rhinoceros or SolidWorks (and/or similar 3D modelling software) and have experience in Adobe Creative Suite. You already have some work experience and a track record to prove it.
Become a part of KOMPAN
We offer attractive terms of employment and a position in an international company which is the global leader in its field. You will work in a very professional set-up with own factories, where KOMPAN is market-leading due to our ambitions and focused strategic efforts. We focus on creating healthier and better lives, so you will be trained in our concepts and knowledge about play value, and how this affects our design.
Around the world, KOMPAN builds 1000 new playgrounds and outdoor fitness areas every month. We have subsidiaries in 30 countries and are represented in 60 countries via agents and distributors. Our mission is to help build happier and healthier communities by designing, manufacturing, and constructing outdoor playgrounds and fitness areas that WOW users to come play, motivate them to STAY and come back, and DEVELOP child and adult health and life-skills. We make solutions for all ages and all abilities.
Date of application
Should you be interested in this position, please send us your motivational application and CV. Please also include your portfolio with examples of some of your work.
When? We are very busy, and we need you - so as soon as possible.
Please note that response times will be longer due to summer vacation.
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