Staff Industrial Designer - Hand Tools
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Milwaukee Tool seeks a Staff Industrial Designer to support its Hand Tools category. The role balances ergonomics, usability, craftsmanship, manufacturability, and aesthetics while developing user-centered, brand-aligned design solutions with engineers, researchers, and product managers. The designer will take ownership of work with increasing autonomy and apply established processes. Familiarity with Milwaukee’s visual brand language is a plus.
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Job Description:
Position Overview:
Milwaukee Tool is seeking a creative, talented, and driven Staff Industrial Designer to support our Hand Tools category.
In this mid-level role, you will demonstrate solid design capabilities and take greater ownership of your work with increasing autonomy. You will effectively apply established processes while continuing to strengthen your design skills, workflows, professionalism, and advocacy for design.
Your design work will balance ergonomics, usability, craftsmanship, manufacturability, and aesthetics that showcase our bold brand language. You will work with cross-functional teams of engineers, researchers, and product managers to develop user-centered, brand-aligned design solutions.
Daily Responsibilities
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Identifying unmet user needs and opportunities for disruptive innovation through research and observation
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Generating product concepts through independent ideation
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Facilitating collaborative brainstorming sessions to catalyze innovation
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Defining project goals, proactively planning development activities, and independently executing design development
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Refining the form and function of your designs through sketching, 3D modeling, prototyping, and hands-on testing
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Supporting Design for Manufacturing (DfM) by applying your growing knowledge of various materials & processes
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Communicating design intent through clear, compelling visuals and impactful presentations
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Documenting design solutions and manufacturing specifications for departmental and cross-functional use
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Supporting projects through production to ensure exceptional design execution
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design (or equivalent) from an accredited university
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Minimum of 3 years of professional design experience
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Portfolio demonstrating strong creativity, form development, and problem-solving skills
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Understanding of ergonomics, usability, and manufacturing
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Natural inclination to iterate, refine, and validate ideas through hands-on prototyping and testing
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Strong communication, collaboration, and initiative
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Ability to manage multiple projects and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment
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Experience designing within an established visual brand language (VBL) - familiarity with Milwaukee VBL is a plus
At Milwaukee Tool, you will work alongside some of the industry's best designers to create products used by millions of professionals every day, shaping how work gets done.
If you are naturally curious, obsessed with design, and motivated to collaborate with dynamic teams to create great tools, we would love to see your portfolio!
Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,893 open Product Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$147–209K/yr1,394 salary ranges
- US median$31–71/hr55 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 22 open Product Designer jobs in Wisconsin and 1,893 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Wisconsin
- Meta4 open
- Accenture3 open
- Milwaukee Tool (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Product Designer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,508 postings).
- Education
- 368 of the 1,893 open Product Designer jobs (19%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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