Product Design Graduate Wrexham 2023

If you’re looking for an exciting yet challenging career, this is the place for you. Our graduate program runs for 18 months in which you'll learn the core skills of design products whilst supporting the existing experienced team.

You'll work closely with the designers on their design processes and whilst they guide you in creating your first products for the company. You’ll be exposed to the entire end to end journey of the product, from researching competitor’s products all the way to supporting the content team list the product on the website.

The role

The quality of our products is our number one priority, and the product design team is the most pivotal departments of the business where no two days are the same. We promise for this to be a tough but rewarding 12 months, and here’s some of what it will entail:

• Set in depth design specifications based on briefs from internal teams and external partners.
• Contribute to the development of new product concepts and ideas that align with user needs and preferences, as well as business objectives.
• Create design concepts and drawings utilising 3D modelling software to bring products to life.
• Participate in design critiques and feedback sessions with more experienced product design team members to improve design skills and to receive constructive criticism.
• Develop the ability to use the 3D printer to create accurate concepts.
• Communicate with manufacturers to create high quality prototypes.
• Gather feedback from product users and communicate changes and improvements to manufactures.
• Ensure products go through appropriate tests and real-life use scenarios to ensure they are consumer ready.
• Attend product installations as required to experience our range of products and build products for testing.
• Supporting product design team members with administrative tasks, such as organizing design files, creating parts lists, creating SKU’s/BOM’s for products.
• Other essential tasks such as liaise with the written/visual content team, create box designs, writing product spec sheets and creating part numbers.

What you'll need to show us

• Good IT skills - practical knowledge of any CAD packages, Adobe Creative Suite and rendering packages.
• Capable of thriving in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, while always maintaining a sharp attention to detail.
• A real flair for creativity and design
• Be able to manage workloads efficiently and work efficiently through them.
• Great communicators, able to build strong relationships with colleagues and suppliers alike.
• Willingness to build and maintain positive working relationships.
• Determination to achieve objectives with optimism when things don't go to plan.

What we value

Our mission is to become the world’s leading sports equipment retailer. Nothing excites us more than finding hungry, talented individuals and unleashing them in a team capable of achieving incredible things. So, what do we look for in our hires? Well, Net World Sports is a pretty unique place to work. Our people create our culture, here’s just some of the things we value in our people:

• Good attitude – reliability, accountability and a positive attitude goes a long way!
• Be respectful - treat and speak to each other with respect. Be present, stick to deadlines and be respectful of other people’s time.
• Hard working – don’t be afraid of hard work, roll your sleeves up and get involved.
• Approachable – be friendly, kind and willing to help others.
• Supportive – encourage and support each other to do our best!
• Adventurous – we like to find creative solutions and play by our own rules.
• Transparent - Open and honest communication with others and with ourselves.

Benefits

• Summer and Christmas Parties
• An extra day off for your birthday
• Additional holidays with length of service
• Help to buy house deposit scheme
• To be a part of a fastgrowing family business
• Health wellbeing programmes
• Charity events
• Social events
• Bike to Work scheme
• Employee loyalty rewards
• Employee discount

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday - we offer flexible working hours which can be discussed in the interview.

This role is based in our Wrexham office, full-time. We're unable to offer remote-working and require a quick start so we're unable to consider applications outside of the UK.

Application Process

Applicants need a degree classification of 2:2 minimum. Degrees in the following areas are desirable or similar – Product design, product design engineering, sports technology and design engineering. We want dynamic candidates that are eager to learn and develop within our company.

We like to keep our application process simple and to the point. We want to learn about you, so make sure you include:

• A detailed cover letter with why you think you’d be perfect for our team
• The ever-important CV!

We’ll be in touch after the application deadline has closed to set up interviews for candidates that have been shortlisted.