Our Client is a well established home textiles company based in Manchester . We ae looking for an established Product Technologist to join their team of 5.
Main Purpose of Role
As Product Technologist you will be fully involved in the total cradle to grave life span of a range
of home furnishing products, ensuring compliance with identified standards. You will be
accountable for demonstrating due diligence in the evaluation and approval of agreed product
categories, ensuring standards of quality, appearance, durability, safety, functionality, fit for
purpose and legal requirements are met at all times.
The Role
• Working closely with our Sales, Merchandising and Buying Departments to ensure complete product information is available to produce accurate product specifications.
• Produce full technical documentation for issue to the factories, thus ensuring each product is manufactured to highest possible standards and complies with designated specifications. This will cover fabric construction/composition, fabric printing/dyeing/colour, stitching/assembly, folding/packing and care labelling based on fabric performance during use and cleaning.
• Request and assess strike-off and lab dip fabric samples against standards for quality, colour and print.
• Request and assess pre-production and pre-shipment seal samples for make-up, stitching and dimensions.
• Assess sealed samples and provide technical support directly back to the factories via email and conference call when required, ensuring critical path milestones are constantly being updated, monitored and target dates met.
• Request, check and grade test reports to ensure fabrics and products perform in accordance with customer requirements.
Candidate Requirements
• Achievement drive
• Articulate and creative
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience in a similar role
• Enthusiastic team player, with a proactive approach, good communication skills and a collaborative attitude.
• The ability to prioritise effectively.
• Ability to interpret data and make decisions based on it
• A desire for continuous product excellence, and improvements.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
Preferred Skills
• Technical experience within the home furnishings or textile industry is preferrable although a garment technologist with good experience in textiles and testing would also be suitable.