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Continental

Worldwide tyre manufacturer and automotive components

Designer

Industrial DesignConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWinchester, VA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in a related field.
  • Applicants must be able to work in a manufacturing industrial environment and wear personal protective equipment such as safety boots, safety glasses, and hearing protection.

Responsibilities

  • Translate customer vision and design intent into production-ready interior surface concepts.
  • Develop and evaluate interior color harmony, material appearance, gloss, texture, grain, print, pattern, haptics, and perceived quality.
  • Balance aesthetics with feasibility, cost, timing, durability, manufacturing capability, and customer requirements.
  • Identify customer and market design needs.
  • Deliver internal and external design presentations.
  • Develop feasible grains, colors, prints, and combinations, securing customer approvals and product life cycle documentation.
  • Support design development and releases for customer programs.
  • Build and expand trusted working relationships with American and North American customers, color, material and finish teams, innovation groups, and advanced engineering organizations.
  • Monitor competitive design technologies and activities together with Sales.
  • Provide design and plant support for Winchester.
  • Coordinate sample creation, color matching, appearance reviews, supplier trials, production evaluations, and corrective actions.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Creative Design, Engineering, Program Management, Sales, Manufacturing, Quality, and external suppliers.
  • Initiate and/or monitor trial batches through the internal process.
  • Track color and grain developments through the internal development process.
  • Track internal design projects.
  • Present design recommendations clearly and document customer feedback, decisions, actions, owners, and next steps.
  • Attend color, print, and texture evaluations at suppliers, production locations, and customer sites.
  • Support escalation management within the Americas Design department.
  • Advise stakeholders and departments involved in the Product Life Cycle that influence design-related product and production properties, including feasibility and business impact.
  • Build and expand collaboration between the organization and relevant customer departments, with a focus on acquiring new projects.
  • Report within defined cycles and systems, including one-to-one meetings, dashboards, and action lists.
  • Communicate status updates and projected timelines to customers.
  • Provide recommendations to affected internal departments based on customer feedback.
  • Report and document customer approval status, including ISAR, roller transfer to serial status, and master creation.
  • Collect necessary input from customers.
  • Present color submissions and grain developments to customers.
  • Support the Program Management team in acquiring new projects.
  • Prepare and deliver internal presentations.
  • Act as a member of a Program Management team.
  • Own surface design development for assigned customers.
  • Collaborate with all parties and departments involved in the Product Life Cycle process.
  • Collaborate with Creative Design, Automotive Design, and DTS SSL.
  • Monitor, gather, and analyze American market activity, especially competitor colors, textures, prints, and materials.
  • Identify American market design and color trends.
  • Analyze company and competitor color and trim portfolios, including color, grain, print, structure, surface characteristics, and haptics.
  • Travel to suppliers, trade fairs, trade shows, and customer locations.
  • Prepare reports, presentations, and updates from customers, shows, and events.
  • Prepare design presentations.
  • Present product portfolio samples and design presentations.

Desired Qualifications

  • A degree in Design.
  • Three years of experience.
  • Experience with Adobe Suite.
  • Previous experience in production and product management.

About the Company

Continental

Worldwide tyre manufacturer and automotive components

Continental designs and manufactures tyres for cars, trucks, buses, bicycles and motorcycles, selling to vehicle manufacturers and in the aftermarket. Through ContiTech, it also produces rubber and plastic technology parts such as hoses, belts, seals and surface materials for automotive and industrial use. Its products are developed and produced at sites worldwide, with tyres tailored for different vehicles and conditions and ContiTech components customized for equipment. The company differentiates itself by offering a broad, integrated mobility portfolio and global manufacturing and service capabilities, aiming to provide reliable mobility through tyres and components worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Hanover, Germany
Founded
1871

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