Product Designer
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What You Will Do
Summary of Responsibilities:
The purpose of this job is to provide professional support as a competent entry level designer within a formal engineering process or a major project. This position performs routine and less complex engineering support tasks that support the mission of the department and Volvo GTO. This position requires the ability to interpret the principles, theories, engineering standards and concepts of a specialized technical area and to apply them in an innovative and original method to further the mission of the organization.
Core Responsibilities
• Serves as a product designer in an area of assignment with limited responsibility, completing Order Specifications with direction and supervision.
• Incorporates problem solving techniques, requires ingenuity and/or creativity.
• Plans and performs conceptual design projects within area of assignment:
• Emphasis is placed on accuracy; accountability/ownership; adherence to formal internal and external standards, procedures and processes; and accurate, acceptable documentation.
• May serve as a design and/or CAD resource in primary area of assignment or performs duties in support of a larger project.
Who are you?
Required Skills And Competencies
Analytical Skills: Recognizing patterns in data, information, or events, drawing logical conclusions, and taking appropriate action.
Attention to Detail: Monitoring adherence to standards and actively checking for accuracy of data received or generated before passing it on.
Communication: Listening effectively, transmitting information accurately and understandably and actively seeking feedback non-defensively.
Conceptual Thinking: Understanding how elements, problems, and situations are related to each other and to the larger environment.
Dependability/Reliability: Following through on commitments, producing timely work to required or higher standards, and pitching in to get the job done.
Flexibility: Performing a wide range of tasks, responding to changes in direction and priorities, and accepting new challenges, responsibilities, and assignments.
Initiative: Taking action in the absence of specific instructions or in the absence of a specific requirement, taking reasonable risks to achieve results, and persevering when challenged.
Ownership / Accountability: Taking the lead in getting the job done and accepting responsibility for personal actions, costs, and results.
Problem Solving/Decision Making: Taking a well-ordered approach to solving problems and mitigating obstacles or resistance.
Quality Advocate: Championing the quality process by reinforcing the organization's vision, quality values, and quality processes and by fostering the continuous improvement of all operational and business practices.
Teamwork: Building cooperation among individuals and departments, sharing information and resources to achieve group goals and outcomes.
Minimum Required Qualifications
The minimum education and experience requirements can be met through any one of the pathways described in the charts below. Please note: In order to meet the minimum requirements, each item listed within the pathway chart must be met.
Path A
Education 2 year Associate Degree in Drafting and Design, Engineering Design Technology, or related design field
Experience -
Training Successfully completed CAD training in a major CAD system or ability to demonstrate equivalent skills.
What’s in it for you?
We Offer a Solid Package Of Compensation And Benefits.
Ready for the next move?
Are you excited to bring your skills and disruptive ideas to the table? We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply today!
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Who We Are And What We Believe In
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group . Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Group Trucks Operations encompasses all production of the Group’s manufacturing of Volvo, Renault and Mack trucks, as well as engines and transmissions. We also orchestrate the spare parts distribution for Volvo Group’s customers globally and design, operate and optimize logistics and supply chains for all brands. We count 30,000 employees at 30 plants and 50 distribution centers across the globe. Our global footprint offers an opportunity for an international career in a state-of-the-art industrial environment, where continuous improvement is the foundation. As our planet is facing great challenges, we - one of the largest industrial organizations in the world - stand at the forefront of innovation. We are ready to rise to the challenge. Would you like to join us?
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