Job description
Technical designer, Womens and Mens SportswearClient Overview: Highly respected company with a world wide reach. With a focus on design, we create stylish consumer focused apparel for our signature brands.
Position Overview: Highly motivated, detailed oriented technical designer who will partner with Tech Design Manager to create and maintain technical packages for both sampling and production.
Technical Designer Responsibilities:
- Work with design team & technical design team on product development.
- Follow up with designers on a daily basis on design details & garment construction.
- Collaborate with production on fit sample issues
- Complete technical packages with data entry, sketches and details using Excel, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Assist with measuring fit samples, pre-production samples, and buyer samples.
- Prepare technical documents for production fitting.
- Lead fittings
- Issue fit comments to overseas
- Understand general specs & grading, construction & basic fit issues.
- Comfortable with reviewing vendor patterns and collaborate on making fit adjustments to accommodate different fabrics and constructions.
- Book fit model & manage fit time.
- Work with agents/vendors and factories regarding contents of tech pack, corrections to samples and patterns.
- Relevant work experience as Tech Designer
- Advance user skills in Excel, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Pattern making and garment construction knowledge
- Ability to proactively troubleshoot and problem solve.
- Ability to work in high volume department and interact with multiple cross functions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of knit and woven construction and fabric/trim. Extreme attention to detail and well organized.
- Menswear experience is an asset/preferred
- Ideally BA in Fashion Design, Technical design or Product Development or similar training