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Technical Designer
URBN
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Urban Outfitters, Inc. (www.URBN.com) is an innovative specialty retailer which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise to highly defined customer niches through brands including Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain, and BHLDN. Urban Outfitters, Inc., is both a Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 ranked company with $2.8 Billion in revenues.
Title
URBN: Temporary Technical Designer
Summary
Provide temporary technical design support for new categories and categories with an increase in style count.
Reports to
Technical Designer
Responsibilities
• Build relationships/partnerships with cross functional team members, such as Design and Production.
• Identify efficiencies within their brand or category to support CTM initiative.
• Assist with seasonal trend block and construction development.
• Instruct and communicate to agents/factories the appropriate construction, fit and block information to ensure successful manufacturing while adhering to Design’s concepts.
• Conducts live fittings with/without designers to determine what fit and construction changes are necessary to achieve Design’s requirements.
• Advise repair options to factories on fit or quality related issues.
• Evaluate best/worst sellers and competitors to make improvements in technical methods and fit for upcoming seasons.
• Assigns base size garments measurements appropriate to each style that correlates to the three dimensional body and desired end use.
• Assures to use all appropriate cost cutting methods in style development.
• Assigns appropriate grading to all points of measure keeping the proportion accurate in relation to our predetermined sizing.
• Other duties as specified by management.
• Attends the following meetings:
◦ Seasonal Production and Tech review
◦ Sketch Review
◦ Finalizations
◦ Fit and Quality
◦ Fit Parties
◦ Other meetings as necessary
Qualifications
• Knowledge in assembling a detailed technical package to communicate proper instruction to agents/factories for initial or in process style development.
• Knowledgeable in pattern making, garment construction, and manufacturing including factory machinery, procedures and methods within their category.
• Solid experience conducting live fittings and determining the necessary pattern changes to create the desired look and fit.
• Experience in assigning easily understood points of measure that will progress the style through development and secure the fit during production QC inspections
• Ability to independently determine appropriate grade rules to all points of measure that correlate to each specific style and sizing.
• Highly organized and experienced in all phases of technical design.
• Proficient in a PLM system. WebPDM and Tradestone experience a plus.
Experience
Experience in Technical Design, apparel factory experience and/or production pattern making required.
Education
Bachelors or Associate degree in an apparel related field a plus.
Location
Philadelphia, PA