Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering - Product Designer
Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering - Product Designer
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Product designers create new products and improve existing ones.
- Discuss what your client wants
- Investigate how existing products work or how services are used
- Develop ideas and make initial sketches or outline plans
- Decide on suitable materials or resources
- Use computer design software to produce detailed blueprints
- Make samples or working models, known as prototypes
- Test and refine designs
You could work in a workshop, in a creative studio or in an office.
Product Designers tend to work between 40 to 42 hours a week. You could also work occasional evenings and weekends.
Starting: £22,000
Experienced: £45,000
You could do a foundation degree, higher national diploma or degree to get into this career.
You could do an engineering product design and development degree apprenticeship.
This typically takes 60 months to complete as a mix of workplace learning and academic study at an approved university. You'll usually need 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) and A levels, or equivalent, for a degree apprenticeship.