Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Product Designer to join us at Doncaster. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Reporting to the Product Design Manager, the Product Designer will be responsible for supporting the development of existing products as well as creating new products from a design brief. The successful candidate will maintain and develop current product drawings as well as issuing drawings following document management procedures. The postholder will have a passion for design and attention to detail, innovation, and have the ability to communicate and influence internal stakeholders on product design related matters.

The role

• Working from a design brief or existing drawings, being able to support the design, development and engineering of existing and new Wavin products
• Generate visual material to communicate concepts internally
• Assist in the early-stage product design concepts such as sketches, models and component drawings
• Take a lead role in communicating the design and its requirements to product management, operations, material supplier, tool design and other third-party suppliers
• To generate and update product drawings
• Issue of product drawings to procedure when requested
• Provide administrative support to the department
• Support Wavin WorkSafe initiatives within the department
• Carry out any other reasonable ad hoc duties as and when required (e.g. general technical queries and problem-solving activities to the wider technical and production teams etc)

The profile

The successful candidate will have good knowledge on Microsoft Office software, specialist CAD skills, and project management skills. Working knowledge of solidworks is also required with a minimum of one year’s experience in a similar environment. The post holder will possess knowledge of rapid prototyping technologies and manufacturing methods and processes with a focus on injection moulding. A full UK driving licence and A levels or an equivalent qualification in a relevant course is essential.

A degree or equivalent in mechanical engineering, industrial design, or experience in product design, engineering, industrial design or manufacturing techology is desirable in addition to CNC programming.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.