Industrial Designer

150 Dynamic Dr, Scarborough, ON M1V 5A5, Canada

Job Description
Posted Friday, August 7, 2026 at 4:00 AM | Expires Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 3:59 AM

Department:

Permanent Display

Reports to:

Director of Permanent Display

Location:

150 Dynamic Drive, Scarborough

Location Type:

Onsite

Vacancy Type:

This is an existing vacancy

WHO WE ARE
Harding Display Corp (HDC) is one of Canada’s pre-eminent point-of-sale and in-store marketing solution providers. Based in Scarborough, Ontario, we’re a family-owned company that’s proudly served clients across Canada and the U.S. since 1927!

Our clients include premier tier-1 CPG organizations who rely on us for our best-in‑class customer‑focused approach and innovative designs of temporary and permanent displays. More importantly, though, we are backed by a strong team of dedicated, diverse employees in all segments of our temporary and permanent business divisions including Sales, Graphic/Structural/Industrial Design, Production, Manufacturing, Logistics, Accounting, and People & Talent.

THE OPPORTUNITY
The Industrial Designer designs and engineers retail displays out of metal, wood, and/or plastic materials to support the Company’s permanent display business. They have a strong balance of technical engineering literacy and a keen eye for beautifully designed, well‑built and well‑executed displays.

Working closely with the Sales, Design, Prototyping and Production teams, the Industrial Designer is responsible for ensuring design concepts and drawings have been developed to maximize quality and provide for effective and efficient manufacturing in order to maximize profitability. The Industrial Designer has a good understanding of manufacturing processes and costs surrounding primarily millwork, metal fabrication, vacuum forming and injection molding.

This role is located primarily onsite in our Scarborough location, with some flexibility.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

Design concepts and specifications for corrugate, permanent and semi‑permanent displays (wood, metal and plastic) based on 3D rendered designs driven by customer deliverable requirements

Specification development and ideation through Solid Works

Review design requests to ensure comprehension and completeness of information provided in order to execute on requested deliverables and achieve the deliverable objectives

Prepare Bill of Materials to review with Prototype and Production teams

Assist Prototype Technician with the assembly of prototype samples as required

Assure all design files are matching the final prototype and the most current files are sent to the internal stakeholders that require them

Manage and execute on multiple programs/projects while juggling multiple project deadlines

Occasional off‑site travel for project review, prototype or sample review and/or installations

Works collaboratively and professionally with internal teams to execute on client deliverables

Work timely and diligently with internal teams to comprehend and/or clarify customer or project requirements

Keeps project teams up to date, as necessary, with respect to key project milestones, issues and/or challenges

Effectively negotiates solutions surrounding project issues/challenges

Communicate effectively and efficiently with internal teams

Apply strategic and critical thinking to deliverable designs in order to achieve the overall project objectives, while maintaining alignment of customer and company objectives

Obtain a complete and thorough understanding of the project scope at project hand off in order to effectively and efficiently execute the deliverables

Proactively monitors current and upcoming workload so as to invest the appropriate amount of time into deliverable and not compromise upcoming deliverables

Proactively addresses and delivers solutions on project challenges in order to ensure On‑Time In‑Full delivery and maximize the effectiveness and efficiency

Attend customer briefing and brainstorming sessions when the opportunity presents itself

Provide complete CAD specifications for pricing, prototyping and production

Apply strategic and critical thinking to project deliverable designs in order to optimize the financial and execution…