Structural Designer

Bay Cities has an exciting opportunity for a Structural Designer located at our headquarter facility in Pico Rivera, California. A Structural Designer is responsible for engineering the structure for point of purchase displays, shipping components, and corrugated packaging to meet customer expectations. They create the CAD dielines, line drawings, spec sheets, pallet patterns, prototypes, and fulfillment instructions for assembly.

JOB FUNCTION/PURPOSE

Structural designers get to dissect a visual concept to create each part of the design and decide how those parts will interact to become a fully formed masterpiece. Every project is unique and presents its own challenges, where you are the creator of the resolution. Both sides of the brain will be engaged in this role. It’s exciting to use numerous computer programs for design work, as well as complete hands-on tasks that inspire the senses.

What am I responsible for?

• Develops structurally and visually stimulating point-of-purchase displays and packaging concepts for products utilizing any type of material that is suitable for the project – corrugate, SBS, acrylic, etc.
• Meets with sales representatives and clients to present and recommend design solutions that meet customer requirements for size, style, price and production timelines.
• Prepares production-ready specs and BOM’s, assembles and ships physical samples, generates line drawings/capacity studies, ISTA reports, CAPE reports, as well as intricate assembly and retail instructional sheets.
• Obtains pertinent information for outside materials and assists purchasing to screen for best possible outside vendor for non-corrugated material.
• Performs quality control. Inspects prototypes and 1st article samples before presenting to customer for sign off. Ensures quality of other designers’ work by reviewing against a checklist.
• Assists in ISTA testing each display that has a full complement of client product.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.