Structural Designer 3

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

Participates in and leads the design phase of a project beginning with analysis of the objectives, creative structural design and engineering of working prototypes, and on into production while meeting all manufacturing criteria and customer expectations. Provides visual solutions for packaging, advertising, and sales support needs by creating designs and copy layouts.
Responsibilities:

• Lead packaging design projects from inception into production and maintain effective communication to team.
• Assesses information provided by clients, business development, sales, manufacturing, and project managers to create innovative structural design solutions, considering visual and structural integrity and cost effective manufacturability and assembly.
• Designs and produces visual communication in a variety of formats and materials, including structural prototypes, mock-ups, three-dimensional drawings, illustrative renderings, technical drawings, and assembly instructions.
• Consistently interact directly with clients as the subject matter expert to obtain project related information and provide guidance on design reasoning.
• Ensure new designs are created for optimum efficiency for production.
• Create high-end, flawless packaging prototypes for customer presentations.
• Create organized, clear, and consistent specifications, dielines, and BOMs.
• Be able to interpret concrete and abstract direction from clients, sales and management to develop a solution that exceeds customer expectations.
• Work collaboratively with design team members to identify and develop the best possible packaging solution.
• Effectively communicate reasoning behind design decisions.
• Maintain clear organization of large ongoing projects involving a multitude of components and revisions.
• Remain up to date on new packaging trends, materials, and technology.

• Bachelor degree in discipline related to functional work or role with 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Must be able consistently identify critical elements, variables and alternatives to develop solutions.
• Must be able to organize/prioritize existing resources and incorporate new information, as needed, to implement the most effective solutions.
• Able to communicate clearly and courteously with those who need to know of decisions/actions/problems.
• Able to apply excellent business acumen and collaborative skills when resolving problems.
• Able to apply excellent functional computer knowledge in utilizing Microsoft Windows, MAC, or other technical tools in completing assignments.
• Able to apply expertise in all the tools or applications used to complete work assignments.
• Able to mentor junior level team members in the use of tools and/or systems in the position.
• Requires excellent communication skills with ability to state messages in a clear manner by using language that is easy for others to understand.
• Must be able to modify communication style both formal and informal to match the appropriate level of the audience targeted.
• Requires strong understanding of the impact of a message on the organization or customer.
• Very good knowledge of prepress production, manufacturing equipment, processes, and capabilities.
• Must be proficient in packaging software including AutoCAD, Quark Express, Freehand, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as very good knowledge of prototyping equipment.

The national pay range for this role is $62,800 to $110,000 / year. The pay range may be slightly lower or higher based on the geographic location of the hired employee. The actual pay offered may vary based upon, but not limited to: education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. In addition to base salary, depending on the role, the total compensation package. RRD offers benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus tuition assistance, maternity leave, adoption assistance, and employer/partner discounts.

RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans