Designer for Boat and Yacht team

Permanent employee, Full-time · Helsinki

Your mission

Aivan is looking for a technically oriented

DESIGNER

to join our Boat & Yacht Design Team

Aivan is a leading Nordic design and innovation studio. We help launch, grow, and evolve progressive businesses by merging brand, design and communication. Navia is an official subsidiary of Aivan, focusing on the design of boats & yachts.

We are looking for an experienced designer with some engineering knowledge to join Navia's team of designers and engineers. We work at our studio by the sea in Helsinki. This new hire will be part of a team in charge of the overall design of leisure crafts from pre-concept up to follow-up of construction, making sure that the concept and the visual design of the resulting product is feasible from technical and manufacturing perspectives.

We expect a minimum of 3-5 years either from a yard's in-house design team, or another design studio with a track record in creating designs that have manufacturability, not purely focusing on the aesthetics. We value agility and adaptability and are looking for designers with a curious mindset that are open to learning and adopting new ways of working.

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MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Designing boats/yachts together with a Naval Architect Team from early sketch to production launch

Solving problems commonly found in boat design with a talented team of different skill sets

Creating 2D & 3D drawings of concept and production files & assemblies (FRP molds / milling files)

Creating project documentation and presentations

Designing and outsourcing custom parts for boat projects

Creating general arrangements (layouts) together with Interior Design Team

Selecting and placing of standard components and main equipment together with Naval Architect Team

Creating easily understandable visualizations using hand sketching or CAD tools

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Intermediate to senior skills in the boat/yacht design

Well-developed understanding of construction and production of composite boats

Basic understanding & knowledge of mechanical and moving components usually found in boats

Capability to create quick concepts and production files using 3d modelling software (SolidWorks/Siemens NX/Rhino)(3dsmax/Blender)

Capability to find solutions to challenges the custom boat projects usually offers

Satisfactory skills to use project documentation, presentation, and management tools (e.g. MS Office Word/Excel, Apple Keynote, Google sheets, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign)

Open-minded and eager to learn new skills

Good spoken and written English

APPRECIATED ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

Experience and capability of taking lead role in a boat design project

Project management skills

A-class automotive surfacing skills

Transportation design ergonomics

Rendering skills

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About us

Aivan is a group of creative professionals with diverse experience, knowledge, and interests.

To deliver exceptional projects, you need curiosity, skills, empathy, and teamwork. We choose to collaborate closely with the client to fully understand the brand and its context.

Our purpose is to help companies, brands and people to transform so that change makes sense. To deeply understand what we are doing, we need to be able to change perspectives and have empathy to see multiple sides behind everything. Eventually, delivering quality is what matters and what we take pride in.

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We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Do you think you could contribute to our progress-driven creative design studio? Please fill out the following short form. Should you have difficulties with the upload of your data, please send an email to jobs@aivan.fi.