Industrial Designer, Product Development

Ready to see your ideas come to life on store shelves across Canada? We're looking for an experienced hands-on, creative industrial designer to join our product development team in Toronto. From sketch to shelf, you’ll take the lead on designing innovative outdoor products - everything from soft goods to powered equipment.

This role is perfect for someone who’s energized by variety, thrives on problem-solving, and takes pride in turning ideas into tangible, real-world products.

If you're resourceful, detail-driven, and passionate about creating great products that people will use every day, we want to hear from you!

Summary Role:

This role will work on all phases of the product development process from start to finish, resulting in your designs being mass produced and sold in large retail stores – many stores that you recognize! The focus of this role is to ideate and customize products including mechanical and powered equipment for people to use outdoors.

As a member of the design team, you'll join a tight-knit group of industrial, mechanical, and graphic designers who manage the creation of new products from conception to completion.

Responsibilities

In a typical week you will:

• Ideate and design products - take products from initial concept through to manufacturing launch.
• Conduct market research to develop a deep understanding of product categories.
• Source the best products currently being made in overseas markets, test them and improve them to develop unbeatable products for our market.
• Communicate with manufacturers across the world, to create and improve products.
• Travel occasionally internationally for manufacturer visits and tradeshows.
• Support the graphic design team for packaging and marketing needs.
• Maintain detailed information and documentation of new products.
• Collaborate with all departments to support the product development cycle through to production.

Who we’re looking for:

• Detail oriented – sweats the small stuff
• Problem solver – finds solutions, makes recommendations and improvements
• Goal oriented – able to work on various projects and deliver quality results
• Continuous learner – eager to gain knowledge and reach further to learn about Midland’s products
• Decisive – makes sound decisions balancing factors and reaching the best solution and not the easiest.
• Hard-goods knowledge – has a mechanical inclination and knowledge of how things function, primarily with hard-goods and power equipment.

Experience

• University degree in Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineer, or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of working experience as product designer or developer
• Familiar with construction, tools, electronics, gas/solar powered equipment, consumer hard goods
• SolidWorks experience

Who We Are:

Midland Power is a growing, agile, Canadian company that designs, improves, and distributes a large catalogue of power equipment and home backup power-related products across the continent. With 20 years of experience, we have a team with deep expertise based in Toronto working to supply the best products to our retail partners, and support people with respect and dedication.

We Offer a positive workplace culture built on teamwork and trust that drives us to be successful both personally and professionally, with a healthy work life balance.

• Annual incentivized bonus opportunities
• Health and dental benefits
• Paid time off
• Many more perks