Associate Industrial Designer

Requisition ID:
67820

About Whirlpool Corporation
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is a leading home appliance company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. As the only major U.S.-based manufacturer of kitchen and laundry appliances, the company is driving meaningful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including
Whirlpool
,
KitchenAid
,
JennAir, Maytag
,
Amana,
Brastemp
,
Consul
, and
InSinkErator
. In 2024, the company reported approximately $17 billion in annual sales - close to 90% of which were in the Americas - 44,000 employees, and 40 manufacturing and technology research centers. Additional information about the company can be found at

The team you will be a part of
The Product Design team designs, validates and brings new products to market.; designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety. Collaborates with internal partners to optimize designs for manufacturability. Uses CAD/CAE systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.

This Role In Summary
This opportunity is best suited to an entry level, creative-thinking, industrial designer, with experience working within a Product Development environment and can design solutions with genuine customer value in mind, while aligning with our brands positioning. Tasked with being the voice for our customer, you will be responsible for providing a continuous stream of innovative, useful, and beautiful products that support and enhance the competitiveness of our brand.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Participate in defining and endorsing cros-category project parameters
• Ensure a variety of conceptual design alternatives are presented to satisfy user needs
• Create aspects of form, aesthetics, and interfaces between users and products
• Generate appropriate documentation to satisfy project criteria into the Whirlpool process.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to effect to deliver the complete Design package
• Help to create and ensure the implementation of the Visual Brand Language within projects
• Generate images and renderings to help communicate the design intent across the company
• Create the Color, Material and Finish documentation according to the CMF guidelines
• Follow-up on DTV (design-to-value) initiatives to ensure product quality and competitiveness during life-cycle
• Create, submit and follow-up prototype builds along our modelshop team
• Ability to create strong story-telling presentations

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from an accredited school
• 1-3 years of design experience in a corporate or consultant environment
• 3D Computer modeling skills (Solidworks, CREO or Rhino 3D)
• Strong project management and planning skills
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to facilitate communication across different disciplines (advance english is a must)
• Strong decision-making abilities and self-motivation
• Adaptability and flexibility to change as designs and processes improve over time
• Strong 2D digital and analog visualization skills. (Photoshop, Illustrator and similars)
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes, especially with metal and plastic parts
• Good understanding of electronics, light-guided interfaces and behavior-specs
• Good understanding of AI tools, such as Midjourney, Gemini and Stable Diffusion

What We Offer

• Wedding bonus
• Subsidy at accredited pharmacies for the purchase of prescribed medications;
• Access to the Company Recreation Club available for affiliated employees and guests;
• Discount on products through Compra Certa;
• Discount on insurance (pet, auto, home, bike, travel, and more);
• Wellhub
• Employee Support Program, providing 24-hour assistance with legal, social, financial, social workers, and psychologists
• Daycare assistance or Nursery at the company for female employees
• Benefits such as consigned or social loans, health plan, dental plan, life insurance, and private pension plans competitive with the market
• Services available on-site: cafeteria, internal bank branch, and lactation room;
• Transportation voucher, Shuttle buses or Free parking at the company;
• Food voucher
• Meals on-site
• Two weeks of remote work from anywhere
• After 5 years with the company, eligible employees can take four weeks of paid leave
• Extended maternity/paternity leave. Learn more at

Additional Information
This position is located at Joinville, the largest city in Santa Catarina state and an important industrial, financial and commercial center of the south region of Brazil. Here in this factory is centered the production of refrigerators, freezers, dryers, water purifiers and B.Blend machines. Also, here it's the base of the global product research and development team in Brazil for the refrigeration, air conditioning, water purifiers, cooking and eletronic areas.

Connect with us and learn more about Whirlpool Corporation

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Whirlpool Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.