Design Standard Lead

The Design Standards Lead owns and evolves a unified design standards framework across JBT Marel, ensuring that our products, platforms, modules and user experiences support the company's strategy as a full-line provider.

The role creates alignment across product portfolios and functions, supports common platforms and reusable design principles, and helps ensure that design decisions are made with clear business intent.

The objective is to create consistency where it adds value and allow distinctiveness where it better serves the customer, product, market or technology.

Scope and Authority

The Design Standards Lead is responsible for setting direction, governance and ways of working for design standards across JBT Marel.

The role ensures that standards are not only technical documents, but practical strategic tools that reduce complexity, improve scalability, strengthen customer experience and support integrated solution offerings.

A key responsibility is to drive cross-functional community and governance processes that foster shared ownership across divisions, Innovation, Product Management, Supply Chain, Service, Software, and other relevant functions.

The scope covers design standards across hardware, mechanical design principles, electrical architecture, automation, software platforms, human-machine interfaces, user interfaces and customer-facing product experience.

The role supports alignment where it creates value for JBT Marel as a full-line provider, while also making it clear where differentiation is the right strategic choice.

You will report into the Innovation Excellence Director and work closely with central innovation teams, divisions, category management, product owners, engineering communities, and Supply Chain.