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Job Description
Develop and design manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and children's toys. Combine artistic talent with research on product use, marketing, and materials to create the most functional and appealing product design.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 27-1021.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 70,880.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 34.00
- Currently, there are 31,860 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Commercial and Industrial Designers”.
Also Known As…
- Commercial and Industrial Designers
- Project Engineer
- Product Engineer
- Product Development Engineer
- Product Designer
- Product Design Engineer
- Mechanical Designer
- Industrial Designer
- Engineer
- Designer
- Design Engineer
- Weapons Engineer
- Weapons Designer
- Toy Maker
- Toy Designer
- Tile Designer
- Textile Designer
- Surfboard Designer
- Stained Glass Window Designer
- Stained Glass Artist
- Snowboard Designer
- Silver Designer
- Sign Designer
- Safety Clothing and Equipment Developer
- Rug Designer
- Roller Coaster Designer
- Robotic Toy Inventor
- Robot Designer
- Production Designer
- Product Expert
- Product Development Manager
- Product Developer
- Pottery Decoration Designer
- Packaging Designer
- Package Designer
- Ornamental Metalwork Designer
- Motorcycle Designer
- Mold Designer
- Millinery Designer
- Memorial Designer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Lighting Designer
- Jewelry Designer
- Graphic Designer
- Game Designer
- Furniture Designer
- Fire Sprinkler Designer
- Fabric Designer
- Engineering Manager
- Embroidery Designer
- Electrical Designer
- Creative Director
- Commercial Interior Designer
- Color Expert
- Color Consultant
- Color Adviser
- Cloth Designer
- Ceramic Mold Designer
- Ceramic Designer
- Car Body Designer
- Body Stylist
- Boat Designer
- Bike Designer
- Bicycle Designer
- Bank Note Designer
- Automotive Designer
- Automobile Designer
- Athletic Shoe Designer
- Art Glass Designer
Tasks for “Design Director”
- Participate in new product planning or market research, including studying the potential need for new products.
- Supervise assistants' work throughout the design process.
- Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.
- Read publications, attend showings, and study competing products and design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and generate design concepts.
- Develop industrial standards and regulatory guidelines.
- Research production specifications, costs, production materials and manufacturing methods and provide cost estimates and itemized production requirements.
- Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.
- Investigate product characteristics such as the product's safety and handling qualities, its market appeal, how efficiently it can be produced, and ways of distributing, using and maintaining it.
- Develop manufacturing procedures and monitor the manufacture of their designs in a factory to improve operations and product quality.
- Design graphic material for use as ornamentation, illustration, or advertising on manufactured materials and packaging or containers.
- Coordinate the look and function of product lines.
- Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
- Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches.
- Present designs and reports to customers or design committees for approval and discuss need for modification.
- Fabricate models or samples in paper, wood, glass, fabric, plastic, metal, or other materials, using hand or power tools.
- Advise corporations on issues involving corporate image projects or problems.
- Confer with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establish and evaluate design concepts for manufactured products.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Universal serial bus USB flash drives
- Laptop computers
- Compact digital cameras
- Personal computers
- Liquid crystal display LCD video projectors
- PTC Creo Parametric
- Siemens NX for Manufacturing
- Microsoft Access
- jQuery
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Autodesk AliasStudio
- C
- McNeel Rhino software
- Microsoft Office
- Chaos Group V-Ray
- Minitab
- Adobe Systems Adobe FreeHand
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Softimage XSI
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Geometric CAMWorks
- Xara Xtreme
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Microsoft Project
- QuarkXPress
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects
- Finite element analysis software
- SAP
- Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Publisher
- Verilog
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Dassault Systems SOLIDWORKS
- Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign
- Microsoft Word
- IBM Notes
- Autodesk Maya for Design Visualization
- Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
- 1CadCam Unigraphics
- JavaScript
- Corel Painter
- Email software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Siemens PLM Software UGS NX
- Delphi Technology
- Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Cloud
- MAXON CINEMA 4D
- Autodesk Revit
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- C++