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Stillingstittel: Hardware Designer and Developer

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

At Norrøna we aim to welcome more people to nature by making the greatest outdoor products in the world. Do you want to join in?

Norrøna is for everyone who loves quality, function, design and sustainability. Our mission is to make the world's greatest outdoor products. Norrøna was founded in 1929, and has been owned and run by the same family ever since.

Our brand values roots, innovation and passion make up the foundation of our own design philosophy: Loaded Minimalism™ -- a philosophy that reflects our drive to design clean products with all critical details.

Norrøna is an ambitious company with strong annual growth in revenues and profitability, both in and outside Norway. The company employs more than 100 people from 15 different countries.

"Welcome to nature"

We are hiring

Hardware Designer and Developer - Norrøna Sport AS

The RD&D department consist of approximately 30 employees from 8 different countries. Your job will be to design and develop hardware, such as bags, backpacks, tents, sleeping bags, goggles etc. You will also occasionally support our Norrøna retail with designs of furniture and interior.

We are an efficient design team, so your contribution will have an important impact for the future developments. In the RD&D team everyone is equally important regardless of role. The diversity of who we are, our backgrounds and passion is what makes us strong as a team. Some of the developments you will work with will be prototyped in our well equipped studio with state of the art equipment. Mostly you will work directly with our factories to develop prototypes.

Areas of responsibility:

AD, Advance/long term Development

• Be an important driver in the AD development process by delivering creative ideas & solutions on a detail to a conceptual level based in AD design briefs
• Plan for dedicated research time
• Deliver/handover clear instructions to peers
• Work together with Material developer to tie the right materials to the right products
• Work closely with peers to develop testable prototypes to prove the concepts and ideas
• Manage the AD process timeline
• Collect intelligence from testers and ambassadors
• Present concepts and prototypes at our AD timeline stage gates

Inline

• Based on design briefs sketch the seasonal designs
• Manage handovers of sketches and initial BOM to peers
• Take responsibility to implement standard solutions
• Be an active part of prototype evaluations
• Be an active driver of problem solving together with peers
• Work very closely with our producers to develop prototypes
• Development until start of SMS production

Colors process

• Plan together with the design colleagues the seasons color processes, leaning to our process and timeline
• Generate color stories for new or relaunched concepts
• Plan and execute the coloring for new and carry over styles
• Coordinate the entire color palette collection, concept and product level
• Color up the products on a sketch and BOM level
• Generate lab dip requests

General responsibility

• Managing the day to day tasks
• Be an active driver in departmental projects
• Execute ad-hoc project based design and developments, so called fast-tracks
• Some travel will be required
• Close cooperation and reporting to the Heads of RD&D
• Need to communicate broadly and clearly due to a broad spectrum of peers

Qualifications

• An Industrial design degree
• Min 5 years work experience from a hardware designer position
• Have an interest and passion of designing hardgoods
• A plus if you have work experiences from other technical outdoor companies
• Great communication and presentation skills
• Important that you have a basic understanding of pattern construction and manufacturing
• Must be able to write and speak English since english is our company language
• Great skills in both creating technical drawings in Corel Designer (or similar) and be able to communicate ideas through hand drawings
• 3D tool for product design and development
• Rendering tool
• Pattern tool
• Able to produce mock-ups (sewing, clay, paper, etc.)
• Used to work with a PLM system

Characteristics

• Creative mindset
• Able to be flexible between the macro to micro perspective
• Able to think outside the box, challenge the status quo
• Detail oriented with the ability to deliver on time and that you understand what to do
• Be proactive, see the opportunities
• Methodical, structured and analytical in your approach, combined with a flexible and commercial thinking
• Able to work without close supervision and to balance multiple projects and priorities
• Co-operative and dynamic
• Ability to manage a demanding workload and have fun
• Be a passionate outdoor enthusiast

We offer

• Fast paced work environment where you will work with a group of competent, curious, passionate and supportive colleagues in a friendly atmosphere
• A development environment which is unique in Scandinavia with all people and tools to produce great prototypes internally in HQ
• Several benefits such as cabins in the mountains to bonus system

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