Textile Coordinator
Share
Job Location:
Manhattan, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients who is the worlds largest intimates specialty retailer offering a wide assortment of modern fashion-inspired collections including signature bras panties lingerie casual sleepwear swim and athleisure as well as award-winning prestige fragrances and body care.
Job Title: Associate Textile Technologist
Location: Manhattan NY 10038
Duration: 2 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid (3 days in office 2 days WFH)
Job Descriptions:
- The Associate Textile Technologist will be the junior coordinator with Stylists regional offices and printers to execute the patterns to meet design intent and make sure to meet milestone deadlines.
- They will communicate with Stylists Designers and Merchants on specific design details and merchandising issues including callouts to meet deadlines for strike off approvals and timing for expedited samples.
Responsibilities
- Ensure all prints patterns and graphic packages/artwork are valid and viable for each region and vendor.
- Develop graphics according to seasonal sourcing strategy provided by Graphic partners.
- Ensure strike offs handlooms knit-downs are received in preparation for milestone meetings.
- Meet with Stylist and Design teams to review print pattern and graphics submits and partner with manager to provide comments on correction.
- Ensure prints engineered graphics and pattern placements are reviewed and approved in a timely manner with team managers and stylists team.
- Ensure all prints patterns and graphics are captured and tracked via seasonal PLM/Centric tracking chart (our main communication tool with global partners).
- Ensure all print pattern and graphic approvals are made by the drop-dead dates provided by seasonal calendar and production partners. If deadlines cannot be achieved partner with manager on recommendations and clearly communicate with cross-functional partners.
- Follow up with textile technologist to ensure cross functional communication is appropriate and timely to avoid delivery price or quality issues.
- Follow up with Stylists CAD artists and vendors for printing techniques and limitations based on repeats special layouts for the raw materials and machine limitations.
- Support with Stylists and Managers to get final alignment for special strike offs for the prints.
- Manage fabric library for strike offs and reference files.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelors degree with a preferred concentration in apparel production management or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 2 years experience in print pattern graphic product development and/or sourcing.
- Experience in approving colors and layout for pattern and graphic strike offs.
- Prior knowledge of repeat of artwork fabric content printing machine type and basic testing for QA.
- Prior knowledge of printing yarn dyes and graphic manufacturing.
- Prior knowledge of garment washing garment dyeing and fabric finishing.
- Working knowledge of printing process (understanding how print pattern and graphic development impacts the product development process through commercialization and applies knowledge to ensure business objectives are achieved).
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Excellent organizational skills and highly detail oriented.
- Excellent computer skills Excel Word Outlook PLM/Centric and basic skills for Photoshop.
- Self-starter with ability to self-manage and work in a team environment.
- Proactive and solution oriented.
- Domestic travel as required.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
