Industrial Designer, Development Engineering

White Water makes products, but at our heart, we are a service business, and that means we are a people business. In this way, we excel and create value for our clients by listening to their needs, collaborating to create solutions, problem-solving and attending to the details. Our culture, as you would expect, reflects these traits. We are a diverse group of experts, from creative designers to talented engineers.

Whatever the expertise we bring from all over the world, we listen and learn from each other because we are aligned behind a clearly understood purpose: together we create fun for families everywhere.

Position Industrial Designer, Development Engineering

Shift: 40 hours | Full-time
Department Development Engineering
Location Richmond, BC, Canada

Reports to Senior Development Lead, Development Engineering

The Industrial Designer (Development Engineering) plays a key role in enhancing the aesthetic quality, usability, and manufacturability of new and evolving products within White Water’s Development Engineering team. Working in direct support of Development Leads, this role helps guide designs toward compelling and consistent forms while ensuring concepts remain practical, structurally compatible, and aligned with existing product architecture.

The successful candidate will contribute across active development projects and early-stage concept work, with the majority of the role focused on supporting live projects through aesthetic refinement, user touch-point improvement, reusable geometry development, and CAD/drawing support. This role bridges industrial design thinking with engineering execution to help deliver distinctive, buildable, and commercially viable new products.

• Support Development Leads throughout the Product Development Stage Gate Process by contributing to product form, design refinement, CAD development, and documentation activities.
• Develop and refine aesthetic design solutions for new products and product updates, with a focus on organic, visually compelling, and cohesive forms.
• Help guide early-stage concepts toward practical and manufacturable solutions by balancing aesthetics, reusable part strategies, and engineering constraints.
• Work closely with designers and engineers to improve product surfaces, transitions, touch points, and user-facing details.
• Contribute to the simplification of part architecture by identifying opportunities to reuse shapes, reduce part count, and create larger consistent surfaces through repeatable geometry.
• Ensure concepts and product layouts are compatible with standard structural engineering principles and can be effectively refined by structural engineering teams.
• Contribute to CAD modeling, drawing development, and design documentation as required to support project execution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design intent is preserved through development, prototyping, and implementation.
• Support design reviews by providing input on product appearance, usability, consistency, practicality, and manufacturability.
• Contribute to product requirement discussions related to aesthetics, ergonomics, usability, and customer-facing design features.
• Assist with prototype evaluation, mock-ups, and design iteration where needed to validate form, usability, and buildability.
• Follow established Engineering Change Order (ECO) processes and support continuous improvement through NCR / OFI procedures.
• Periodically travel to support reviews, prototype evaluation, testing, or commissioning activities as needed.

• 5–7 years of industrial design, product design, or development engineering experience, preferably in a product development environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, or…