Koch Industries

Industrial Designer

Koch Industries$70K — $95K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proficient in physical product design including form development, user interface, and CMF specifications.
  • Skilled in conceptual sketching using both traditional media and digital tools.
  • Experienced with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Premiere, InDesign).
  • Competent in 3D modeling with SolidWorks/Creo and in rendering/animation using Keyshot.
  • Familiar with collaborative online whiteboards such as Mural or Miro.
  • Understands Design for Manufacture concepts and experimental rapid prototyping techniques.
  • Able to effectively communicate design ideas and advocate for user needs in a team setting.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Lead Designers from discovery research through to commercial launch.
  • Engage with global colleagues and customers across North America, Europe, and Asia.
  • Tackle complex, ambiguous challenges to develop holistic, user-centred design solutions.
  • Contribute to system-level projects spanning industrial design, packaging, digital UX, and service products.
  • Apply design thinking to support and elevate the broader Phillips-Medisize business.
  • Document, explain, and justify design decisions within multi-disciplinary teams.

Benefits

  • Work on meaningful, regulated healthcare products that improve patient quality of life.
  • Join a global design team collaborating across diverse markets and regions.
  • Enjoy flexible work location options in Denmark (Virum or Struer), the UK (Cambridge), or the USA (Hudson, WI).
  • Opportunities for professional growth and deepening expertise in user-centred product development.
  • Be part of a reputable global company committed to innovation and enhancing healthcare solutions.
Full Job Description
Your Job

At Phillips-Medisize we fuse insight, innovation and technology to develop useful, usable, meaningful and viable solutions for our customers.

We are looking for a creative, passionate, and thoughtful Industrial Designer to join the industrial team as we strengthen our market offering in product development and user experience design. This role is open to candidates who can work from any of our Denmark (Virum or Struer), UK (Cambridge) or USA (Hudson WI) sites.

In this role you will be at the forefront of healthcare product development and primarily focused on holistic user-centred design, with an emphasis on physical product form and user interface development.

The ideal candidate will be a creative problem solver with a diverse skill set and will enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary collaborative team. You will need to have a sharp mind that is not afraid to tackle the complex challenges that inherently come with creating healthcare solutions for users in a regulated environment.

The role requires a deep sense of curiosity, a thorough approach with a high level of attention to detail. Not only will you have the skills to bring ideas to life, but also the ability to document, explain and justify them to wider teams that work together and are responsible for delivering safe, commercially viable products that people understand how to use and find meaningful.

Our Team

The design team is part of a global function that is leveraged to support our global innovation and development sites in China, Denmark, India, UK and USA on projects that go from Discovery to Delivery. We work alongside capabilities from Mechanical Engineering to Manufacturing, Software to Regulatory, Quality to Marketing, Human Factors to Legal.

You will have the opportunity to work on regulated healthcare products alongside fellow designers who specialise in digital UX designers, packaging, labelling and IFU designers and research & strategy experts.

Candidates should be prepared to bring energy to the design team and a desire to start or continue their professional growth in user centric product development.

What You Will Do
  • Work alongside Lead Designers on projects through discovery research, synthesis, ideation, concept design, testing of new product concepts all the way through development and commercial launch.
  • Be part of a global design team that is working with colleagues and customers across the globe. You can expect to predominantly be working in North America and Europe, but with opportunities to do work with Asia-based development programs.
  • Thrive in ambiguous environments, embrace difficult challenges, and solve multi-faceted problems in the service of colleagues, customers and end users.
  • Be comfortable working and supporting complex system-level projects that include Industrial Design, and ideally have interest a level of interest in packaging, instructions for use, apps/digital UX, and service products.
  • Support the wider Phillips-Medisize business / team with Industrial Design / Design Thinking.
  • Uphold and promote a culture where business acumen and design sensibilities are equally important to the success of a company.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • You are a thinker, doer and maker.
  • You are adept at communicating via various creative software platforms and/or media which could include:
  • Exceptional conceptual sketching skills (traditional media and digital tablets)
  • Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Premiere, and InDesign)
  • SolidWorks / Creo 3D Surface and Solid Modeling
  • Keyshot Rendering and Animation
  • Online collaborative whiteboard environments such as Mural or Miro
  • You understand physical product design (product form development, user interface design, color/material/finish (CMF) specification, etc.)
  • You have a base understanding of Design for Manufacture and interest in learning more about manufacturing process principles (ie. injection molding, automated assembly, etc.).
  • Understanding and experience with experimental rapid prototyping materials and methods
  • You are effectively able to advocate for the needs of end users and the inclusion of diverse perspectives throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • You are as comfortable working by yourself on difficult challenges as problem solving within a wider team effort.
  • You have a proactive approach to your work. You are happy to take the initiative where appropriate, but not afraid to seek guidance if needed.
  • You will be part of team with an incredible breadth of experience and expertise. You are comfortable in learning other people's professional languages, whilst helping them better understand the role and power of design thinking.


What Will Put You Ahead

You are able to demonstrate experience and familiarity with:
  • Foundational design research to establish well-reasoned foundations from which to create potential design solutions
  • Collaborative workshop experience with a an interest in developing your capabilities in planning and facilitation
  • Interest or experience in the design of packaging and instructions for use (IFU)
  • Interest or experience in digital user interface development
  • You're inquisitive about consumer behaviour and psychology.
  • You have a desire to participate in exploratory user research sessions and support formal usability evaluations.

To be considered for this role please upload a portfolio of you work that demonstrates your experience as an Industrial Designer and to evidence that you are an excellent candidate for this role.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

Phillips Medisize, a Molex company, collaborates with industry leaders to design and manufacture drug delivery systems, medical devices and diagnostic tools that save and improve the quality of life for millions of patients annually. With our dedicated team of 6,000+ employees in 29 locations around the world, we share our customers' mindset that every product is critical to a healthcare provider and their patients somewhere in the world. Molex is a multi-sector global electronics brand owned by Koch, Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies. Discover your potential to make a difference.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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