Overview
Senior Structural Designer; Eligible Jobs in Toronto, Canada at Harding Display
Position: Senior Structural Designer (Signing Bonus Eligible!)
Location: 150 Dynamic Drive, Scarborough
Location Type: Onsite
Vacancy Type: This is a newly created position
WHO WE ARE
Harding Display Corp (HDC) is one of Canada’s pre-eminent point-of-sale and in-store marketing solution providers. Based in Scarborough, Ontario, we’re a family-owned company that’s proudly served clients across Canada and the U.S. since 1927!
Our clients include premier tier-1 CPG organizations who rely on us for our best-in-class customer-focused approach and innovative designs of temporary and permanent displays. More importantly, though, we are backed by a strong team of dedicated, diverse employees in all segments of our temporary and permanent business divisions including Sales, Graphic/Structural/Industrial Design, Production, Manufacturing, Logistics, Accounting, and People & Talent.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Senior Structural Designer is responsible for designing, detailing, and engineering temporary and semi-permanent corrugated displays from prototype through to production. They have an excellent technical background and understanding in the material and the processes of building displays that focus on quality, assembly, stability, functionality, production efficiencies and budget.
This role is primarily on-site, with some flexibility at our Scarborough location.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT Ideation
- Design concepts and specifications for temporary and semi-permanent, corrugate displays based on 3D rendered designs driven by customer deliverable requirements
- Specification development and ideation through Computer Aided Design [“CAD”] tools Concept development and ideation of concepts through sketch, 3D models and renders
Communication and Compliance
- Review design requests to ensure comprehension and completeness of information provided in order to execute on requested deliverables and achieve the deliverable objectives
- Work timely and diligently with internal teams to comprehend and / or clarify customer or project requirements
- Manage and execute on multiple programs/projects and multiple projects deadlines
- Keeps project teams up to date, as necessary, with respect to key project milestones, issues and/ or challenges
- Effective solution negotiations surrounding project issues/ challenges Communicates effectively and efficiently with internal teams
- Apply strategic and critical though process to deliverable designs to achieve the overall project objectives, and alignment of customer and company objectives
- Ensures team compliance with design request process and related procedures so as to not compromise project success
- Work closely with Design team to monitor project status and troubleshoot any project issues
Prototype Coordination
- Provide inputs to Graphic Designers during their preparation of concept rendering and related presentation layouts, which address the client’s request, expectations, the specifications, and highlight design features.
- Prepare Bill of Materials to review with Prototype and Production teams
- Cuts materials by operating Sample making machine when Corrugated Displays’ Prototype Technician is not available or due dates are to be met.
- Assembles prototypes and to ensure that all parts lock in correctly, the structure is sound, and fit for use.
- Checks completeness and conformance of all parts to the Bill of Materials.
- Work with the Graphic Designers and Graphic Production Manager to ensure the accuracy of prototype and production dielines.
- Provide the Production department and external suppliers the accurate files and related information for production tooling dies.
- Provide instruction sheets to Sales and Production teams for prototype and production sample(s).
Quality Control
- Adheres to company SOPs and policies and utilizes company tools and resources to operate a required on a daily basis
- Identifies and communicates in timely fashion, issues with estimated project times and/ or execution time overages that will impact deliverable deadlines and/ or compromise project deadlines
- Proactively monitor current and upcoming workload so as to invest the appropriate amount of time into deliverable and not compromise upcoming deliverables
- Proactively address and deliver solutions on project…
Title: Senior Structural Designer; Eligible
Company: Harding Display
Location: Toronto, Canada
Category: