Industrial Designer II

BLOX LLC•Bessemer, AL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

BLOX is a Design-Manufacture-Construct company headquartered in Bessemer, Alabama. It designs and builds modular buildings, building components, and sub-assemblies in a controlled factory environment before delivering and installing them in the field. The Industrial Designer II designs physical products and spaces used in healthcare, mission-critical, and other facilities, including patient bathrooms, exam rooms, headwalls, and other building products. The role joins a new product launch team and leads concept development, form, ergonomics, configuration, and materials. It carries design intent through to the factory floor, working with engineering and manufacturing to ensure products are efficient to build, transport, and install while balancing user needs, manufacturability, cost, and quality. This is an on-site role at BLOX’s Bessemer, Alabama facility, with time split between the design office and manufacturing floor. The employee must be able to walk the production floor and wear required personal protective equipment. BLOX offers comprehensive benefits and support for employees pursuing licenses and certifications, with pathways for skill development and career advancement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
3–6 years of experience designing physical products that went into production, such as fixtures, appliances, furniture, equipment, or building products.
A portfolio showing concept development through production, including how designs were refined for manufacturing.
Strong 3D CAD skills using SolidWorks, Inventor, Rhino, NX, or similar, and the ability to produce production-ready models and drawings.
Working knowledge of fabrication methods, including sheet metal, structural steel, welding, fastening, and molding, and of tolerancing.
Experience with ergonomics and user-centered design for physical products.
Ability to work on the shop floor with production teams to solve problems in real time.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing plumbing fixtures, appliances, healthcare environments, or other products used in buildings.
Experience with modular, prefabricated, or offsite construction products, or other configurable built products.
Experience creating and maintaining bills of material and managing engineering change control.
Rendering and visualization skills, such as KeyShot or similar.
Familiarity with Product Data Management or Product Lifecycle Management systems and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing.
Experience supporting a new product launch from concept through production.
Exposure to Revit or other building information modeling tools.

Responsibilities

Lead concept development for new products and refine existing designs for usability, ergonomics, configuration, materials, and cost.
Research how patients, staff, and maintenance technicians use products, and translate those insights into design decisions.
Develop sketches, 3D models, renderings, and physical or virtual prototypes to explore and communicate design options.
Define color, material, and finish choices that balance durability, cleanability, appearance, cost, and availability.
Build production-ready 3D models and drawings, and partner with engineering to complete fabrication files, specification sheets, and bills of material before production release.
Apply design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly principles so products are efficient to build, inspect, ship, and install.
Maintain design revisions so models, drawings, and bills of material remain traceable and aligned through change control.
Work daily with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management to resolve build issues and incorporate lessons into the design.
Track design-related rework, scrap, and delays, and lead continuous-improvement actions to reduce them.
Support prototyping, first-article builds, and product launch readiness.