Industrial Designer (On-Site)

Gopher Sport•Owatonna, MN

2d•$63,300 - $88,300•Onsite

About The Position

Gopher Sport is looking for a passionate, creative, and technically skilled Industrial Designer to join their team. The role involves designing new products and improving existing ones, transforming concepts into manufacturable solutions used by millions worldwide. Responsibilities include brainstorming design solutions, prototyping physical models, creating CAD models and renders, defining colors, materials, and manufacturing processes, understanding cost and vendor constraints, creating technical drawings, reviewing samples, troubleshooting quality issues, and developing engineered solutions for part connections, tolerancing, and manufacturing methods to ensure reliable assembly and production. This is a full-time, in-person position.

Requirements

4 year Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design / Product Design / Mechanical Engineering
3+ yrs experience in Industrial Design / Product Development
SolidWorks proficiency; including technical drawings and 3D modeling
Advanced understanding of materials and manufacturing
Hands-on experience building and testing early-stage prototypes using diverse materials, tools, and maker-space equipment
Ability to balance multiple priorities and adapt quickly

Responsibilities

Create designs that satisfy the product’s performance, appearance, design, functionality, quality and cost requirements.
Provide design options with alternative solutions.
Create designs that are manufacturable.
Recommend ideas for design modifications to improve the performance, appearance, design, functionality, quality, or cost of each product.
Troubleshoot and modify existing designs in order to solve manufacturability, cost or other obstacles.
Improve design for improved durability, appearance, manufacturability, quality and cost.
Confirm product specifications, BOM’s, product descriptions and presentations are correct.
Research patents in concept phase. Create patentable ideas. Avoid infringement.
Move assigned product projects through the design stages, meeting or exceeding deadlines.
Create technical drawings and product specification documents for manufacturing, following company standard processes.
Update and correct any product designs or technical or manufacturing specifications that change or are incorrect.
Store working and completed design and specification files according to department processes.
Collaborate with others internally or externally on complex designs and diverse product categories.
Assist in the completion of customer-facing product use and product assembly instructions.
Assist in other activities associated with receiving and confirming prototypes, samples, first shipments, quality issues, returns, etc.
Build physical proof of concept prototypes for product projects as needed or directed.
Maintain lab tools and machines, including required maintenance and supplies, as well as make determinations on additional tools to expand prototyping capabilities.
Oversee material management and ordering, ensuring necessary materials are stocked and available for prototype building.
Keep lab up to safety standards, clean and organized.