Intern Tech IV

Enerpac Tool Group Corp • Milwaukee, WI

3d

About The Position

You are a motivated, passionate Industrial Design Intern, looking to expand your design capabilities in a growing segment of industrial tools. Working as the liaison for customer you will design creative solutions based on usercentered product objectives. You will partner with innovation leaders, engineers, product management, and fellow designers to gather insights, define design criteria, and lead product design to ensure form language and product experience expectations are being met. This role will focus primarily in three areas: The first area will be working on active NPD projects where observation, brainstorming, concept generation, storytelling, and illustration will be core functions of your role. The second area will be working with various stakeholders in the company to ensure projects adherer to VBL guidelines, manufacturing constraints, and ensuring the user centered features remain intact through a variety of in house projects. The final role is to think big picture and use your curiosity to create products, solutions, or applications that have never before existed in the industry.

Requirements

• Creativity that extends beyond product design.
• The passion to create and build something from nothing on our Design & Innovation team.
• Possess an understanding of the design process and have successfully applied it to multiple projects.
• Well versed in product form language, ergonomics, user-centered design, design for manufacturability and product interaction.
• Curiosity in a changing landscape of design, technology and user experience trends .
• Have a foundation of user empathy and creative storytelling.
• Strong consumer centric approach to design, demonstrating strong design thinking processes and methodologies.
• Experience in Pro-E, SolidWorks or equivalent 3D software tools.
• Highly proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, SketchBook Pro [Digital Sketching], as well as analog sketching.
• Excellent demonstration of rapid visualization, including quick ideation sketching.
• Understanding of mechanical design.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communications skills, including the ability to communicate concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Currently enrolled in an Industrial Design Program [BFA, or BS] from an accredited university
• None

Responsibilities

• Participate in product research and uncover opportunities that effectively translate needs into actionable design requirements.
• Involved heavily in upfront concept ideation and development, solving newly found needs and opportunities.
• Participate in the design, development and refinement of physical products and graphical user-interfaces.
• Use thought strategy to develop user experiences for our products through both digital and physical means.
• Generate creative design proposals by using a variety of illustration techniques to provide visual portrayals of design directions.
• Use computer software to develop virtual models and renderings of different designs to communicate design intent to internal teams, stakeholders, and business partners.
• Ability to create physical prototypes that represent accurate design directions to gain alignment and direction with our CoE teams.
• Work with CoE teams, Enerpac Operations, and other specialists such as mechanical engineers or manufacturers to evaluate whether their design concepts will fill a need at a reasonable cost

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees