Industrial Designer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

American Bath Group is a leading manufacturer of bathware solutions serving residential, commercial, and hospitality markets across North America. The Industrial Product Designer will support the US AcrylX business by delivering accurate, production-ready CAD designs and drawings that keep customer-driven work moving across active bathware programs. This role sits in a lean, execution-focused environment where responsiveness, precision, and throughput directly affect customer experience and operational continuity.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This role exists to absorb a steady flow of bathware design work and custom requests without allowing errors, delays, or execution gaps to enter the system. The person in this seat will help stabilize throughput across FRP and LRTM product lines by producing accurate 3D CAD models and drawings in SolidWorks, often against customer-driven timelines. This is a pure designer role focused on CAD execution, not an engineering ownership, product strategy, or innovation seat.

SUCCESS IN YEAR ONE

Success in this role means becoming a highly reliable, independent designer who can carry multiple concurrent bathware projects while maintaining strong responsiveness and high output accuracy. By the end of the first year, this person is expected to manage 3–4 concurrent projects at steady state, deliver 100% on time against customer-requested deadlines, maintain at least 95% design accuracy with minimal designer-driven rework, support high-volume custom requests with rapid turnaround, and execute the full design lifecycle across FRP and LRTM product lines. They should also help protect continuity in an environment where delays can affect roughly 60 active projects.

THE MANDATE

The mandate is to deliver accurate, production-ready 3D CAD designs and drawings in SolidWorks across multiple concurrent bathware projects while ensuring on-time response to customer-driven requests. The role requires translating design intent into manufacturable outputs, handling both active projects and incoming custom work, and maintaining speed and precision at the same time. The work is highly interactive and service-oriented, with regular coordination across customers, reps, and internal teams. The expectation is not just strong design quality, but reliable execution under sustained throughput pressure with minimal oversight after ramp.

YEAR ONE CRITICAL OUTCOMES

• Independently manage 3–4 concurrent bathware design projects at steady state
• Deliver 100% on time against customer-requested deadlines
• Maintain at least 95% design accuracy with minimal designer-driven rework
• Support high-volume custom requests, often with sub-24-hour turnaround when complexity permits
• Execute the full design lifecycle across FRP and LRTM product lines
• Sustain zero customer complaints and zero design-response delays attributable to the role
• Help protect execution continuity across a workload environment where delays can affect roughly 60 active projects

WHY THIS ROLE IS HARD

This role is demanding because the work arrives continuously, not episodically, and the team operates in a lean, capacity-constrained environment where gaps are immediately felt. The designer must balance urgency and dimensional precision without sacrificing either. Errors can be expensive, including tooling issues, product failure, and significant downstream disruption, while slow responses can create customer dissatisfaction and broader project delays. Although political complexity is low, collaboration intensity is high, so the role requires steady responsiveness across internal and external stakeholders.

LEADERSHIP PROFILE

The strongest fit is a high-precision execution-oriented designer who works quickly without sacrificing detail, maintains consistency across repeated and custom CAD work, and responds reliably to stakeholder needs. This person should be comfortable operating with minimal supervision after ramp, work well in a highly interactive environment, and treat design accuracy as an operational requirement rather than an aesthetic preference. The role is best suited for someone motivated by hands-on execution and practical output, not by engineering ownership, organizational leadership, or strategic product direction.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Expert-level SolidWorks capability, including solid and surface modeling
• Ability to translate CAD models into production-ready drawings and specifications
• Proven record of accurate, low-error design execution
• Experience managing multiple concurrent CAD or design projects
• Strong collaboration skills in a highly interactive, request-driven environment
• Ability to ramp quickly to independent ownership of most assigned work
• Preferred: knowledge of engineering codes and standards
• Preferred: experience with FRP, LRTM, or similar manufacturing processes
• Preferred: bathware or adjacent-industry background
• Preferred: experience handling custom, iterative customer requests

WHY THE RIGHT CANDIDATE WILL BE EXCITED

This role offers the chance to own meaningful design work that directly affects customer responsiveness, production readiness, and day-to-day business execution. It is a strong fit for a builder who enjoys moving quickly, managing multiple active priorities, and producing tangible outputs that keep work flowing. The right candidate will be energized by the combination of autonomy, visible impact, and the opportunity to apply strong CAD capability in a practical, high-trust environment. The role is especially attractive to someone who prefers execution and problem-solving over strategy, politics, or overly abstract design work.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

This role matters because design accuracy and responsiveness are operationally critical for the business. When this seat performs well, projects stay on track, customer requests are handled quickly, and downstream manufacturing disruption is avoided. When it fails, the consequences can include significant financial impact, product rejection or field failure, delays across approximately 60 active projects, and added strain on an already constrained team. In practical terms, this position protects both customer confidence and execution continuity.