London, UK
Transport designer
at Seymourpowell
Seymourpowell is seeking a transport designer to join its product experience team in London.
What Seymourpowell do
We help our clients grow their business by delivering transformative brand experiences that people love. Our product experience team is comprised of world-class product, transport and interaction designers, design engineers and creative technologists.
We work with many of the world’s best-loved brands and innovative start-ups. From space ships to sex toys we cover pretty much every category you can dream of.
What we believe
Great design makes things better for people, better for business and better for the world.
What we are looking for
We’re on the hunt for exceptional transport designers to join our product experience team. We want that extra something, that spark of brilliance that makes you stand out from the crowd of great designers.
You will have previous professional experience working on large scale transportation design briefs (for example rail or aeronautical projects) as part of a wider team within a design consultancy or in industry.
You can communicate confidently and you know how large scale vehicles and interiors are manufactured and assembled. You have a strong expertise in using 3D CAD to create what you envisage and the ability to bring this to life with stunning visualisations.
Ultimately we’re most interested in your creative thought process, your ability to balance vision with pragmatism and your attitude to getting things done.
Responsibilities
As a transport designer, you will be expected to:
- demonstrate a deep understanding of transport design and innovation
- show great problem solving aptitude
- be able to confidently communicate new ideas to team members and clients
- have great sketching and/or visualisation skills
- be highly competent in a broad range of creative skills and software (including Adobe CS, Keyshot and 3D software
- be an expert 3D CAD designer with a mastery of working in large, complex assemblies (ideally you are a wizard operating Creo/ProE, but this is not essential)
- understand how things work, how they’re made and how they are assembled
- be able to solve challenging technical problems to design and develop large vehicles and interiors that can be manufactured
- be enthusiastic, ambitious and proactive
- become a go-to amongst colleagues and the wider team
You are Seymourpowell if…
You work with passion.
Seymourpowell’s team is built from a broad range of skills and personalities. What unites our diversity is passion.
You have a love for transport design
We are looking for someone with a deep understanding of the transport design world. You should have a degree or masters that is relevant to a design and innovation company (for example in transport design, automotive design, industrial design or design engineering etc.).
You are omnivorously curious
You have broad interests and perspective. You are culturally keyed in and aware.
You are an instigator
You start things and work proactively taking the initiative in a resourceful way. When you don’t know the answer you work hard to figure it out.
You are original
You bring new perspectives to challenges.
You are meticulously concise
You sweat the small stuff, you are considerate and opinionated.
You take a critical approach
Whilst an optimist at heart, you cast a critical eye over your ideas. You never give up.
You are solution-focussed
You like problem-solving. You keep our client’s business challenges in focus at all times.
You play well with others
Collaboration makes you tick and you believe in the adage that two heads are better than one.
Your ultimate design goal
We’d like to understand a little more about your ambition. Please answer the following questions within your application letter.
If you could redesign any mode of transportation or any travel experience what would it be and why? We’d also like to know which brand it might be for and why?
If this opportunity excites you:
- please send your CV and portfolio of work with a covering letter using the ‘apply’ link below
- please indicate in your portfolio which elements of the work you were responsible for
The closing date for submissions is Monday 18 November 2019.