Thinking through making, it’s what we do. We’re looking for people who care about the details, understand that design matters and love figuring things out with shop tools and ingenuity. You’ll be joining a team that designs and produces prototypes, large scale mockups, exhibits, and structures using a wide variety of materials from wood and metal to textiles, laminates, and composites to name a few. You’ll working with designers to initiate fabrication of component parts and complete the assembly and installation of mockups using in-house and/or external sources as required. You’ll be working on projects defining the human experience for the next generation of products in commercial air and space travel, autonomous vehicles, and all sorts of mobility.
Why We Need This Position
It’s great to have good ideas, but you can’t really know how they’re going to pan out until you see the real deal. Our approach to design is ‘thinking through making’, and this role is key in transforming theoretical concepts into physical assets that enable designers and clients to grasp how a given innovation appears and functions in context.
Who We’re Looking For
You have the technical know how to build things from rough sketches, technical drawings and verbal instructions. You can read electronic CAD drawings and have a solid grasp of construction math and formulas. As a child, you loved Legos and Erector sets; as a teen, you dismantled and rebuilt bicycles, car engines, anything you could get your hands on. You love working with hand power tools, power equipment, and other machine tools; and you don’t mind shimmying up and down ladders and heaving heavy objects around. You’re able to work on your own and with a team and will do whatever it takes to get a project done on time. You are eager to learn every day, you sweat the details, have pride in your work and are accountable for results, but are also a creative thinker, able to think outside the box and solve problems on the fly. Finally, you don’t mind hopping around from one project to the next at mockup facilities throughout the greater Seattle area and beyond. If working in a highly collaborative environment that’s building the future sounds like your idea of fun—and you have the know-how to get the job done—we want to hear from you.
What We Just Said, Now in 5 Bullet Points (a.k.a. Essential Qualifications)
- Experience: Completion of a formal apprenticeship or technical degree in a related degree strongly preferred; 5+ years of experience.
- Special skills: Knowledge of aircraft terminology and coordinate system; solid math skills, basic knowledge of electronics and measurement system, including calipers, required; knowledge of common shop tools, manual metalworking machines, and other power equipment; able to lift 50 pounds, 25 pounds overhead and work on your feet up to 8 hours a day.
- Passion: Building things, customer service, and working with a team.
- Role: Transforming conceptual designs and sketches into the real thing
- Personality: Creative, handy, visually oriented, energetic, open, collaborative.
The hourly pay range for this job in most US geographic locations is $22 - $33/hour.
What We Offer
At Teague, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion. We search the globe to find and attract top talent from diverse backgrounds and value unique perspectives and experiences.
We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, rewarding you based on performance and recognition for the value you bring to Teague. Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. In addition, our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes medical, dental, short-term Disability, Long Term Disability, Flexible Spending Account, HSA, Life Insurance, 401k with employer match, Parental leave. We also offer voluntary benefits for vision, voluntary life, AD&D, accident & injury, identity theft protections, legal and long-term care. As part of our comprehensive benefits package, you’ll be offered 4 weeks paid time off and 10 paid holidays throughout the fiscal year. The employer provides more generous sick leave than applicable law through a PTO Program that provides 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked or 3.075 hours of PTO per week worked.
We are a Washington State based company. All employees must reside in the state of Washington (unless otherwise noted for specific roles) and be able to access one of our studio locations in the greater Seattle area.
Teague is an EEO/AA employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
