JOB TITLE: Freelance Product Design Engineer – Healthcare Toilets
LOCATION: Remote
About Pineapple
Pineapple is a global leader in designing innovative furniture solutions for challenging environments. Founded in 1975 as a family-run business, we now operate worldwide with offices in the UK, France, Germany, and the USA, employing over 200 people globally.
We design furniture that supports calm, safety, and wellbeing—combining functionality, sustainability, and great design.
About the role
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Freelance Product Design Engineer to support the design of innovative healthcare toilets for the US market. You will be responsible for transforming concepts into functional, production-ready designs, ensuring high-quality, durable, and aesthetically pleasing solutions. This is a freelance contract position, ideal for experienced designers who thrive on project-based work and bringing new products to life.
What you'll be doing
- Collaborate closely with functional teams to design innovative toilet solutions for healthcare facilities.
- Transform concept visuals into detailed designs, progressing from prototypes to final production-ready models.
- Produce accurate and detailed 3D models using SolidWorks, generating drawings for manufacturing, prototyping, and marketing renders.
- Utilize 3D printing and other prototyping methods to develop and test design concepts (knowledge of these technologies is useful but not essential).
- Ensure designs meet functional, ergonomic, and regulatory requirements.
- Liaise with manufacturers and internal teams to resolve any production or design issues.
- Drive key new product projects forward within given target dates and budgets.
- Perform other ad hoc duties as required.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Proven experience in a Design Engineering role focused on toilets/sanitaryware.
- You will have an understanding of specification, installation and commissioning of US Toilet/Sanitaryware systems.
- Strong 3D CAD skills, particularly SolidWorks.
- Experience designing furniture or products from concept through production.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Experience with 3D printing and prototyping is advantageous but not required.
- Understanding of US healthare regulations or standards is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- You embody our company people values:
- Teamwork - Collaborate effectively with humility, appreciating and integrating individual skills and perspectives to achieve collective goals.
- Committed - Dedicate yourself fully to your role, going above and beyond with self-motivation and loyalty to achieve individual, team, and company goals.
- Ownership - Take full responsibility for your work, performance, and conduct, acting with integrity, staying organised, and learning from feedback and mistakes.
- Positive - Approach tasks with optimism and innovation, viewing challenges as opportunities, and bringing energy and enthusiasm to inspire and motivate others.
- Responsive - React quickly and effectively to needs and feedback, prioritising tasks with urgency, embracing change, and maintaining a proactive approach.
Benefits
What We Offer
- Freelance, project-based contract.
- Opportunity to design innovative products impacting healthcare facilities in the US.
- Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
We are an equal opportunities employer, We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
Agencies we know where you are if we need any support, thank you for your interest in working with Pineapple.