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Stillingstittel: Product Maker Wanted

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
Qualifications and profile • Your preferred background is a Bachelor or Masters degree from engineering, technical drawing product design or industrial design. Experience from a similar role, especially from developing furniture, is still more important. • More than 2 years of relevant experience from work with product development or production setting. Experience from, and a strong interest for, work within the fields of furniture, interior accessories products, electronics or lighting products is a plus. • Strong interest and passion for product development. • Strong interest in materials, material innovation, construction, quality, sustainability and all the intricate elements of a complete good user experience, topped with smart details and good functions. Aesthetic orientation is a plus and a nerdy good eye and mind for details is a must. • Experienced user of Solidworks or other equivalent CAD programs. • Structured and analytical working style with strong operative project management, administration and reporting skills. • High working capacity and solution and result oriented, with a get it done attitude and an international mindset for setting up successful collaborations. • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills. Scandinavian language skills is a plus but not required. • Happy about life, happy about working with other people. Northern is currently looking for the right candidate to join us as a new team member for a newly defined product development position for the brand at the company headquarters in Oslo, Norway. The offered contract runs for a 12-month long period, with a possible extension for the right candidate. At Northern you will work with exciting and varied work tasks in an international context together with a small, young, experienced and great team of other product developers, key internal stakeholders from Finance, Sales, Marketing and Logistics, as well as internal and external designers and production partners. As a team member you will be given broad responsibilities and a high degree of freedom to develop and shape your own role. Periods of travelling must be expected. Work tasks • Active role in the development of new products for our expanding lifestyle product categories within the lighting, furniture and accessories segments. Develop and test ideas from early design concepts via technical drawing, prototyping and adjustments all the way forward to final production samples and production setting. • Maintain , challenge, improve and further develop the existing Northern product portfolio. Hereunder develop best practice routines for product improvement initiatives, configuration management, key component registry and change control data regimes. • You will be expected to take responsibility for the quality and functionality of construction and materials for both new and existing products. Materials selection, production and component sourcing, cost negotiations and price calculations are integral parts of the work. You will evaluate and support suppliers in their development processes. • You will take part in preparing product documentation (abstractJV_descriptions, final drawings and visualizations, technical specifications etc), the design of user manuals, safe packaging details and quality standard setting, as well as testing and certification for different relevant standards (CE, EPD etc). • You will be expected to work well as an independent project manager on some developments, as well as keep process control and run ongoing assessment of risk and initiate possible mitigation solutions for the entire collection and ongoing development projects. Northern.no AS is a Nordic lifestyle design company with a collection focused around lighting, accessories and furniture products. We see interior as a flexible, creative space, and make multifunctional products that are unified in style, as well as in spirit. The Northern brand was born in the studios of Northern Lighting, where a team of creatives have been illuminating lives since 2005. Northern.no AS is an entrepreneurship-oriented and fast-growing company based in Oslo, Norway. We collaborate with retailers, agents, distributors and other partners within the affordable luxury segment in more than 40 countries.

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Link to the vacancy on the Swedish job board

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Northern Co. AB

source: PES-SWEDEN