Job Description
Ready to Take Your Product Design Experience to a Bigger Stage?
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Our client is a successful Australian designer and manufacturer creating everyday consumer products for major retailers across Australia and New Zealand, with an expanding international presence.
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They are seeking a Senior Industrial Designer with specialist knowledge of home storage, laundry and organisation, combined with strong expertise in plastics, injection moulding, engineering and design for manufacture. This is a genuine idea-to-shelf opportunity—from concept and engineering through to tooling, manufacturing and seeing your products in major retail stores worldwide.
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A Different Kind of Product Business
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This is an ambitious, commercially driven business—but it believes how you grow matters.
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Led by exceptional people, they have built a refreshingly different workplace where everyone has a voice and individuals are genuinely valued.
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Their philosophy is easy:
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People first. Customers second. Products third.
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Because great people who genuinely understand their customers create better products.
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As the business grows globally, it is pushing further into product engineering, smarter materials, responsible manufacturing and sustainable design—without losing sight of functionality, affordability or commercial reality.
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The Role – From Idea to Shelf
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Working across Design & Product, Buying, Sales & Marketing, engineering and international manufacturing partners, you will:
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Research consumers, markets, materials and emerging opportunities
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Translate customer needs into innovative, manufacturable products
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Create advanced SolidWorks CAD, surfacing and production-ready designs
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Engineer injection-moulded plastic components, considering draft, wall thickness, ribs, snap-fits, tolerances and assembly
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Apply strong engineering and DFM principles from concept through production
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Select materials based on performance, durability, cost and environmental impact
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Prototype, test and refine products for usability, strength and longevity
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Work with engineers, toolmakers and manufacturing partners through tooling and production
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About You
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You will bring 5 or more years' Industrial or Product Design experience, ideally within home storage, laundry, organisation, household products or FMCG.
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You will also have:
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Strong expertise in plastics and injection moulding
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Advanced SolidWorks and surfacing capability
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A thorough understanding of tooling, materials, engineering and DFM
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Proven experience taking products from concept into mass production
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Relevant Industrial Design or Product Design qualifications
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Most importantly, you care about why a product should exist, how it is engineered, what it is made from,



how long it will last and whether it genuinely makes everyday life better.
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Why Make the Move?
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Because growth shouldn't come at the expense of people, customers or partnerships.
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This is an ambitious, commercially driven business, but it believes how you grow matters.
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The culture is deliberately different.
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Good ideas don't need to travel through layers of hierarchy before they are heard, and job titles don't determine whose opinion matters.
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People come first. Customers are treated as partners, not transactions. Suppliers and manufacturing partners are respected as an important part of creating great products.
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The belief is simple: when you look after your people, genuinely understand your customers and build strong partnerships, better products and stronger commercial results follow.
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For a designer, that means more than another job.
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It means having a seat at the table, greater ownership from idea to shelf, direct exposure to customers and decision-makers, and the opportunity to influence what gets created next.
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You'll join an Australian business with significant international exposure that is determined to grow without losing what makes it different: Great people. Strong customer partnerships. Better products. Smarter materials. Responsible choices.
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The Details
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Location: Melbourne's Western Suburbs
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Hybrid: Three days in the office and two days from home
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Salary: $140,000–$150,000 + super, depending on experience
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📌 Industrial Designer - Home Storage & Organisation (Victoria)
🏢 Bloom Careers
📍 Victoria