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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 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
- Design Director
- 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 “Toy Maker”
- Prepare sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer-aided design equipment.
- Fabricate models or samples in paper, wood, glass, fabric, plastic, metal, or other materials, using hand or power tools.
- Develop manufacturing procedures and monitor the manufacture of their designs in a factory to improve operations and product quality.
- Participate in new product planning or market research, including studying the potential need for new products.
- Modify and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
- Evaluate feasibility of design ideas, based on factors such as appearance, safety, function, serviceability, budget, production costs/methods, and market characteristics.
- Direct and coordinate the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches.
- Research production specifications, costs, production materials and manufacturing methods and provide cost estimates and itemized production requirements.
- Design graphic material for use as ornamentation, illustration, or advertising on manufactured materials and packaging or containers.
- 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.
- Coordinate the look and function of product lines.
- Read publications, attend showings, and study competing products and design styles and motifs to obtain perspective and generate design concepts.
- 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 industrial standards and regulatory guidelines.
- Supervise assistants' work throughout the design process.
- Present designs and reports to customers or design committees for approval and discuss need for modification.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Compact digital cameras
- Liquid crystal display LCD video projectors
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Universal serial bus USB flash drives
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Project
- Corel Painter
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- SAP
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Web browser software
- QuarkXPress
- Delphi Technology
- Siemens NX for Manufacturing
- MAXON CINEMA 4D
- Autodesk Revit
- IBM Notes
- Softimage XSI
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- PTC Creo Parametric
- Chaos Group V-Ray
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- Minitab
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Siemens PLM Software UGS NX
- Verilog
- Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
- Autodesk Maya for Design Visualization
- Dassault Systems SOLIDWORKS
- McNeel Rhino software
- Microsoft Office
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt
- Geometric CAMWorks
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign
- Finite element analysis software
- Xara Xtreme
- Email software
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- Adobe Systems Adobe AfterEffects
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Publisher
- 1CadCam Unigraphics
- Adobe Systems Adobe FreeHand
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Cloud
- C
- C++
- Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
- Autodesk AliasStudio