Retail Technical Designer

**Summary**:
**Salary**:
Competitive

Team:
Design and Development

**Location**:
United Kingdom - Hullavington Office

**About us**:
Dyson is growing, with more products and exciting new categories, solving problems others ignore with exciting new technologies that defy convention.

As a leading global technology company, we are committed to building a consistent global in-store presence. The experience and interactions of our guests needs to illustrate our latest technological advances that set Dyson products apart from the competition.

The ‘in house’ Retail Design Team consists of a highly skilled multi-disciplined core group of Designers,

As a team we drive global retail strategies across 82 markets, within Dyson owned stores and third-party concessions, to create and shape Dyson’s retail landscape.

**About the role**:
As a Retail Technical Designer, you will be responsible for taking retail briefs from ideation to realisation.

Working across a breadth of projects from direct store furniture, NPD projects, retail systems and bespoke market requirements. You will work closely with the Concept Design team to aid with concept exploration, offering technical guidance, ensuring design validation, and adhering to a coherent design vision. You will be required to evolve initial design concepts into tangible retail furniture for production.
- Create proof-of-concept mock-ups to explore the aesthetic & technical elements to ensure that all fixtures are to the agreed concept vision.
- Evolving designs through detailed 3D development models and creation of technical drawing and production packs
- Managing your own projects through the Dyson retail design and development process to drive cost, production, installation, and environmental efficiency wherever possible.
- Briefing and supporting external manufacturing vendors to manage projects through to prototype production. You will undertake comprehensive prototype reviews to ensure design alignment and approval across multi-functional internal teams and senior stakeholders.
- Ensure designs comply with Dyson quality, performance and technical standards and adheres to global/market Health and Safety standards and regulations.
- Collaborating closely with the Global Retail Production team to help provide technical support, aid cost validation and capture design amends in the creation of final production packs to hand over for manufacture.

**About you**:

- 2:1 or higher Design degree in Product/Furniture/ Industrial Design.
- 4+ years of technical design experience with demonstrable experience of working with retail or furniture design.
- Excellent knowledge of materials, manufacturing process: sheet steel and plastic fabrication, timber and sheet joinery, aluminum extrusions, injection mouldings and LED lighting.
- Good design communication and exploration skills through a range of mediums with strong sketching and design modelling skills.
- Strong manual prototyping skills and workshop experience would be ideal.
- Experienced user of 3D CAD (Solidworks is essential).
- Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
- Fully literate in producing large General Assemblies and manufacturing technical drawings that comply to BS8888.
- Understanding of graphic design, instore communication, and mixed print production ideal
- Strong experience presenting work to internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Strong knowledge of prototyping production processes.
- Excellent time management skills, able to handle multiple projects whilst still delivering on schedule and to budget.
- Articulate with strong communication and people skills.
- Good collaboration skills
- Creative, lateral thinker, great at problem solving with meticulous attention to detail.
- Methodical approach to work
- Commercially aware
- Can do attitude, passionate, motivated and flexible.
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
- Able to lead projects and drive them through to delivery.
- Able to work on multiple concurrent projects and multitask.
- Able to take on-board feedback and constructive criticism.
- Ability to travel.

**Benefits**:
Financial
- Salary at above the national salary scale for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
- Performance-related bonus scheme
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Discounts on Dyson machines and retail purchases
- Free bus travel to and from campus (from Bristol, Bath, Chippenham, and Swindon)

Lifestyle
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days (plus bank holidays)
- Free on-site lunches, fruit, and hot drinks
- Access to on-site sports centre, gym, hair salon, and lifestyle assistance
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Option to purchase additional holiday days

Health
- Private medical insurance and dental insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- Digital GP services
- On-site physiotherapy and GP services
- Prescription service
- Fertility treatment support

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