UX Designer

ENERPAC TOOL GROUP - Who we are?

Enerpac Tool Group Corp. is a premier industrial tools, services, technology, and solutions provider serving a broad and diverse set of customers and end markets for mission-critical applications in more than 100 countries. The Company makes complex, often hazardous jobs possible safely and efficiently. Enerpac Tool Group's businesses are global leaders in high pressure hydraulic tools, controlled force products, and solutions for precise positioning of heavy loads that help customers safely and reliably tackle some of the most challenging jobs around the world.

The Company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Enerpac Tool Group common stock trades on the NYSE under the symbol EPAC.

For further information on Enerpac Tool Group and its businesses, visit the Company's website at  .

Seeking a UX Designer with roughly 3-5 years of relevant experience who will collaborate with global product managers, engineers, software developers, researchers, and fellow designers to identify unmet customer needs and translate them into clear, user-centered product experiences. This role contributes across the design lifecycle, from discovery and concept development through validation and implementation.

This role supports both physical products and digital applications, helping create cohesive experiences across tools, controls, displays, mobile and web applications, connected products, and related workflows. The ideal candidate combines practical UX methods with strong visual and interaction design skills, can communicate ideas through sketches, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes, and is comfortable learning from users in office, field, and industrial environments.

The designer will also contribute to broader UX strategy, design standards, and the continued growth of user-centered design within the Design & Innovation team.

Location: Milwaukee, WI - Based at our beautifully renovated headquarters, right along the Riverwalk , across from the Grand Ave. We offer secure paid underground parking, an onsite fitness center with a personal trainer, and direct access to over two miles of skywalks connecting you to restaurants, coffee shops, and other downtown amenities.

Schedule: Hybrid schedule onsite Monday through Thursday, with remote work capabilities on Fridays

• Contribute to a culture of Design & Innovation by applying user-centered design and Design Thinking principles to cross-functional projects.
• Support the development and consistent use of UX processes, methods, and tools across projects.
• Contribute to the Enerpac design system and help maintain a consistent look, feel, and interaction model across digital experiences.
• Design experiences that connect physical products and digital interfaces, including product controls, embedded displays, mobile and web applications, connected tools, and IoT-enabled workflows.
• Explore how products, applications, and services work together within a broader product ecosystem, and contribute ideas that support the UX and connected-product strategy.
• Partner with product management, engineering, software development, marketing, and other functions to understand user and business requirements and translate them into design solutions.
• Plan and conduct user research with guidance as needed, including interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing, and field observation.
• Synthesize research into practical design inputs using personas, journey maps, task flows, storyboards, heuristic evaluations, and experience principles.
• Create sketches, wireframes, user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes that communicate intended hardware and digital experiences.
• Support physical-product UX activities such as control layout, labeling, information hierarchy, ergonomics, feedback, setup, service, and end-to-end product interaction.
• Validate concepts with users and stakeholders, document findings, and refine designs based on evidence and feedback.
• Work with engineering and software teams through implementation, helping resolve usability, interaction, and visual-design issues while maintaining design intent.
• Participate in design reviews, workshops, and design sprints, and clearly communicate design rationale to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and end users while developing the confidence to independently manage defined UX…