Senior Industrial Designer

Title: Senior Industrial designer

Schneider Electric China is seeking an Senior industrial designer, he will be based in the "Design Lab" in the Schneider Shanghai R&D center, and who will report to the design VP of Design Lab China, within Industrial Design & Ergonomics department

Competencies :

The ideal candidate has more than 2 years of experience within a design team, either in a company or agency, having integrated design in the strategy of product conception.

He/she must be capable to handle project for product, and graphic design.

He/she must possess a strong artistic and technical culture enabling the creation of brand design defined by our design charters.

Graduate from an Industrial design school.

The future industrial designer is able to:

• Express ideas clearly and build on the ideas of others.
• Inspire, provide vision through work and approach within the community of people from many disciplines (interaction design, engineering, marketing and business)
• Translate user needs, technical realities, brand attributes and business needs into compelling products that embody a positive experience.
• Demonstrate ability to coordinate deliverables and schedules.
• Build and maintain relationships with projects teams.
• Demonstrate excellent visualisation skills.
• Express a unique point of view on the design brand strategy.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and empathy for the manufacturing process.
• Understand product development cycle.
• Handle the technical connection between visual and functional design elements.
• Hand-on model making experience
• 3D CAD Skills
• Demonstrate an energetic, curious and Charismatic personality that infects others with passion for design.

Mission :

• Handle industrial design projects from / within Asia Schneider Electric entities under the responsibility of the manager.
• Carry the design projects which have been confided to the design lab (concept, project, mock-up) under the responsibility of the manager.
• Organise and accompany the projects confided to external design agencies (conception, functional and aesthetic mock-ups) under the responsibility of the manager.
• Organise and oversee constructive communication between R&D, marketing, and the external agencies.
• Respect the rules of our brand design.
• Diffuse and survey the respect of the design charters.
• Bring creativity to the project team with the support of our design charters and manager.
• Participate weekly at the design project review, presenting the key projects of the design lab Asia.
• Maintain contact and work with the other design labs within the group.

Additional skills required:

All candidates should present their portfolio or provide work samples as part of the application process, you have to be able to justify your role and contribution for each project submitted, and candidates must be fluent in English.

About Schneider Electric design:

Schneider Electric has been built progressively by acquiring companies at the forefront of their fields.

Our aim is to bring together and unit this key know-how in order to propose new solutions tailored to fit our planet's challenges.

As the global specialist in energy management, we want a brand language that is more precise, radical and consistent with our specific personality. This is the major avenue for Schneider Electric's differentiation. Our vision, in the long run, is a coherent offer portfolio that conveys reliability, simplicity/easy to use, and ingenuity.

About Schneider Electric:

As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centres/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient, the company's 100,000+ employees achieved sales of more than 15.8 billion euros in 2009, through an active commitment to help individuals and organisations "Make the most of their energy".

www.schneider-electric.com

Qualifications

1. Major- Industrial Design ( Bachelor degree or above)

2. Rich Experience of professional software: Rhino or ProE/ Keyshot / Illustrator / Photoshop

3. Above 2 years Industrial design experience

4. Fluent English

Schedule: Full-time
Req: 009695