Textile & Color Designer, Apparel

Brief Description

About Unrivaled Teamwear

Unrivaled Teamwear serves as the parent company of Champion Teamwear, Gear for Sports, and Knights Apparel, each an industry leader in the sports and team apparel space.

Our family of brands know what goes into great decorated garments, using top-quality fabrics and offering creative decoration options. Each brand offers customers a premier selection and exceptional service for all their sportswear needs, from t-shirts and caps to fleece, performance wear, and outerwear.

Overview

Owns the fabric, Trim, and color approval process by ensuring the timely development of new fabrics, trims, and colors, maintaining the fabric, trim and color library, and communicating all raw material approvals, rejections and details.

Job Responsibilities

• Evaluates lab dips visually and using Datacolor instrument.
• Evaluates bulk fabric submits against established standards for appearance, hand feel, weight, stretch, and color.
• Ensures color consistency to standard across multiple styles and fabrics and vendors.
• Maintains color standard data, physical run cards and other data related to fabric and color.
• Maintains complete and accurate approval records and approves product care instructions.
• Communicates detailed directions to vendors and mills regarding all fabric/trim and color submits.
• Point person for sourcing new fabrics/trims and supplies the design team with recommendations on new fabrics, colors, and trims.
• Responsible for staying current on new color processes and fabric technologies and sharing this information with all cross-functional teams as needed.
• Requests color submits and ensures adherence to all established approval dates.
• Assists with development of new Ultrafuse colors and approves final color swatches to ensure that new colors meet Champion Teamwear standards.
• Maintains color management process for all sublimated standards (Ultrafuse, special projects, & Twill palettes).
• Overseas and manages all fabric testing and makes recommendations to improve fabric functionalities.
• Effectively communicates status updates and timeline discrepancies with internal and external teams.
• Supports with quality issues as needed, reviewing concerns, testing outcomes, and providing direction for improvement.
• Assists with research and problem-solving on QA issues.
• Assists with special project requests as needed.
• Supports product development, inventory planning, logistics, QA and other departments as needed.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in apparel or textiles preferred.
• At least 4 years of experience in a product development, sourcing, or color management capacity.
• Must have a color discrimination skill represented by a score in the superior range using the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test.
• Understanding of fabric knitting, weaving, dyeing, and finishing.
• Experience communicating with overseas production partners.
• Experience with fabric and trim sourcing and evaluation.
• Experience managing color approvals.
• Knowledge of industry standards for quality and testing procedures.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Organizational skills necessary to handle multiple tasks and reports within deadlines.
• Experience with Datacolor or other spectrophotometer, and lightbox.
• PC skills including Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel), Adobe Creative Suite, PLM.
  
  

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the associate. Other duties will be assigned as needed.

EOE/AA: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing as well as participate in E-Verify.