Onzo

Location: Central London
Salary: £Competitive

This is a 3 month FTC for an experienced Product Designer. The Product Designer will assist in the development of new product ideas and work up solutions from concepts through to post-production. This is an exciting opportunity to make your mark in a dynamic and rapidly expanding company.

Core skills required:
• Design for manufacture expertise
• confident in producing production quality artwork
• Proficient in Solidworks, Photoworks and Adobe CS.

Desirable skills:
• Service design experience, strategic design skills, user centered research and strategic marketing
• Plastic Injection modelling

Specific responsibilities:
• Work within a cross disciplinary team (mechanical, electronics, software, marketing, business) to generate concepts (and improvements) for future products, services and business ventures.
• Work with Professional Services as required on consultancy projects, looking at design input
• Manage workload with awareness and (where applicable) maintenance of project planning
• Manage prototyping and product requirements with awareness and (where applicable) management of project budget constraints
• Undertake research to understand market opportunities, and audience requirements (end customer, utility)
• Demonstrate and apply an understanding of classical physical principles, engineering principles, material properties, manufacturing technologies, sustainability and project budget requirements to all areas of work
• Sketch ideas to communicate them
• CAD ideas and render them as required
• Communicate and demonstrate ideas using appropriate models in card, foam and engineering materials
• Validate designs by defining and planning scientifically valid methods for testing, conducting or supervising testing, and evaluating the results
• Build test rigs, building prototypes, model making, commissioning prototypes
• Produce CAD for assembly and tolerance analysis
• Communicate progress and findings to others
• Maintain an accurate record of all activities using notes, sketches and email correspondence on a daily basis
• Generate drawings and other documentation for production observing excellent documentation control and revision management
• Work directly with manufacturing partners to develop and refine designs for production
• Support production with sample approvals, documentation, BoM definition and cost down improvements

Potential applicants should email their CV, cover letter and example work to jobs@onzo.com. Please quote ‘Product Designer’ in the email subject line.

About Onzo
Onzo provides utility companies with customer intelligence solutions. Those solutions enable utilities to achieve their business objectives and meet regulatory requirements: attracting and retaining customers, shifting usage off peak, improving energy efficiency, improving customer satisfaction, reducing the cost to serve, and increasing non-core revenue. Onzo’s solutions include hardware and software that can increase the amount of valuable data that is gathered, process data to maximise its value to the utility, and increase the number and effectiveness of the utility’s consumer touchpoints.