What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Designer position at Manière De Voir?
Role: Senior Technical Designer
Location: New York City (Central)
Role Summary: We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Designer to join our team based in New York City, USA. The ideal candidate will possess a wealth of knowledge in garment production, testing and quality control.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading, scoping, and owning the full fit process, ensuring accountability and excellence across all designated product areas.
- Setting standards for all technical aspects of garment production to ensure high quality and functional products.
- Responsible for the setting and ensuring KPI's are followed – reduced defect rate, increased first time pass rate, production efficiency, compliance rate and reduced returns rate.
- Management of the end-to-end QC process. Inclusive of fabric testing, audits and the management of safety standards.
- Delivering continuous creative solutions to support long term compliance with manufactures.
- Effectively liaising with manufactures ensuring cohesive process control throughout production.
- Manage and conducting in-house fit sessions whilst taking steps to proactively prevent technical issues
- Management of sampling processes ensuring accuracy, speed and compliance.
- Liaising with the Designers, Buyers and Suppliers to offer technical guidance on new product development and garment construction.
- Management of grading and tolerance rules.
- Implement solutions from analysing returns and faults to reduce.
Requirements:
- A minimum of 7 years’ experience in a similar role (including multi-product experience)
- Exceptional understanding of garment construction, quality control and fabric technology/testing
- Experience of working directly with manufactures
- A positive attitude towards challenges and implement solutions
- Strong time-management skills; able to prioritise tasks & be flexible
- Clear concise communication is a must both written and verbally
- Confident using Outlook and Excel