Industrial Design Coop Summer 2024 - Victoria, Canada - StarFish Medical

StarFish Medical

Verified Company

Victoria, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

StarFish Medical **is Canada's largest medical device design, development and contract manufacturing company. We help Medtech innovators throughout North America overcome challenging technology obstacles to create breakthrough products that improve health and save lives.

StarFish Medical's Industrial Design and Human Factors department is opening its door to an Industrial Design summer co-op student.

We are looking forward to help you learn and grow while assisting in the real world design and development of some potentially life saving medical devices.

Location:
Victoria, BC or Toronto, ON

Salary:

Hourly rate for 3rd year student is $25.92 and hourly rate for 4th year student is $27.10

Position Profile:

Reporting to the Industrial Design and Human Factors Manager, the Industrial Design Co-op role requires good problem solving skills, good understanding of the design process, general understanding of manufacturing technologies and materials, good understanding of user-centric design approach, understanding in UX development and great intrapersonal skills.

We are looking for some one who is passionate about the role that design plays in people lives and has a strong visual design sense.

Responsibilities:

Support the Industrial Design team through ideation, brainstorming, concept sketching and exploration.
Assist in qualitative research activities with the ID of HF teams.
Perform initial analysis and critique of existing devices.
Support project teams through formative prototyping.
Help craft design concepts through CAD, computer renderings.
Assemble design concept presentations.
Assist HF and ID team members through facilitating.
Work collaboratively with StarFish Medical's engineering, marketing and QA teams to support projects.
Any other related duties, as required.

Qualifications:

Ability to work within a team or as an individual with mínimal supervision.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with SolidWorks, Adobe Creative Suite, Keyshot and Microsoft Office Suite.
3rdor 4th year industrial design student with a focus on product design, human factors and/or user experience.
Demonstrate the ability to clearly communicate design concepts.
An eye for visual design.
Able to present a relevant portfolio demonstrating abilities.
Skills in Figma, Axure, Maze are a bonus.
Motivated and selfdriven.

Tasks:

During your co-op placement StarFish will try it's best to have you working on some real world projects helping to support the ID/HF team.

The exact tasks will be determined by current project status. Beyond this, you will be tasked with an independent project over the duration of your placement.

The details of this project are to be determined but if you have any suggestions or thoughts on a specific topic you would like to tackle, please share them On a day to day basis you will be expected to monitor and track your hours through our internal system.

StarFish Medical is Canada's leading Medical Device Design service provider with a full complement of design, development, and manufacturing services in Victoria and Toronto. We successfully partner with innovative companies (both large and small) to create breakthrough products for a number of medical specialty areas. Our work environment received Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures for 2021, 2022 and 2023 award recognizing best-in-class cultures that have helped enhance performance and sustain a competitive advantage.