Industrial Designer, Development Engineering
The Industrial Designer will enhance the aesthetic quality, usability, and manufacturability of products within the Development Engineering team. The role involves creating product forms, refining CAD models, and collaborating with engineers to ensure designs are practical and structurally sound.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5–7 years of industrial design, product design, or development engineering experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, or diploma in a related technical discipline
- Ability to do concept hand sketches
- Experience working on products with complex geometry, organic surfacing, or visually driven forms
- Proficiency with rendering tools (Keyshot, Blender, Unreal Engine, etc.)
- Proficiency with SolidWorks for CAD modeling and design development
- Familiarity with AutoCAD for review and coordination
- Experience with design for manufacture and assembly
- Experience with engineering drawings and product documentation
- Experience working within PDM / PLM systems
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada
- Must be able to travel worldwide without restrictions
Full description
WhiteWater makes products, but at our heart, we are a service business, and that means we are a people business. In this way, we excel and create value for our clients by listening to their needs, collaborating to create solutions, problem-solving and attending to the details. Our culture, as you would expect, reflects these traits. We are a diverse group of experts, from creative designers to talented engineers. Whatever the expertise we bring from all over the world, we listen and learn from each other because we are aligned behind a clearly understood purpose: together we create fun for families everywhere.
Interested in starting an exciting career with WhiteWater? Apply today!
Position Industrial Designer, Development Engineering
Shift: 40 hours | Full-time
Department Development Engineering
Location Richmond, BC, Canada
Reports to Senior Development Lead, Development Engineering
The Industrial Designer (Development Engineering) plays a key role in enhancing the aesthetic quality, usability, and manufacturability of new and evolving products within WhiteWater’s Development Engineering team. Working in direct support of Development Leads, this role helps guide designs toward compelling and consistent forms while ensuring concepts remain practical, structurally compatible, and aligned with existing product architecture.
The successful candidate will contribute across active development projects and early-stage concept work, with the majority of the role focused on supporting live projects through aesthetic refinement, user touch-point improvement, reusable geometry development, and CAD/drawing support. This role bridges industrial design thinking with engineering execution to help deliver distinctive, buildable, and commercially viable new products.
YOUR ROLE
- Support Development Leads throughout the Product Development Stage Gate Process by contributing to product form, design refinement, CAD development, and documentation activities.
- Develop and refine aesthetic design solutions for new products and product updates, with a focus on organic, visually compelling, and cohesive forms.
- Help guide early-stage concepts toward practical and manufacturable solutions by balancing aesthetics, reusable part strategies, and engineering constraints.
- Work closely with designers and engineers to improve product surfaces, transitions, touch points, and user-facing details.
- Contribute to the simplification of part architecture by identifying opportunities to reuse shapes, reduce part count, and create larger consistent surfaces through repeatable geometry.
- Ensure concepts and product layouts are compatible with standard structural engineering principles and can be effectively refined by structural engineering teams.