Technical Designer is responsible for ensuring the fit of a product without sacrifices design or quality. Technical Designers are involved in the design and manufacturing process of a garment, ensuring fit is properly asserted along the way.
Technical Designers should collaborate with the design and product development teams to determine fit and aesthetic details from the onset of a product’s creation. They should lead fit sessions, analyzing what fits properly and suggesting alternate components and construction method for what isn’t fitting properly. They should work within development and production timelines to ensure fit along the way, and communicate with buying offices with comments and corrections. They’re responsible for maintaining a block library to resolve pattern and fit issues. They should also manage brand awareness, and isolate areas for size, construction, and fit opportunities within the industry.
Additionally, they should take customer complaints regarding fit into account with all future products.
Technical Designers work in conjunction with design and product development teams and usually manage and assistant technical designers.
This role requires you to be a very detail oriented, and committed to ensuring fit quality through the entire process. You should have visual mindset and a trained eye for proper aesthetic. You need strong communication skills to be a technical designer your role affects other departments’ processes and the final outcome of the garment. You need to be independent, meet deadlines, and be an excellent multi-tasker.
If you’re considering applying to be a Technical Designer, your resume should show you have experience in construction, patternmaking, and manufacturing processes. It should also show that you know how your role fits interdependently into these and other departments, but functions independently as far as meeting expectations. It should also show that you can seamlessly juggle multiple lines of communication and work, and that you’re committed to seeing them through.
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Technical Designer Resume Sample
- Approved fit and construction of garments within the development and production timelines, under the direction of design and merchandising teams
- Assured all deadlines were met
- Attended weekly calendar meetings to gain cross functional alignment as needed
- Collaborated and followed-up with the departments Sample Coordinator on sample receipts and scheduling of fittings
- Collaborated with Product Development & Design and Sourcing teams to ensure all deadlines are met
- Collaborated with designers and merchants to determine fit and aesthetic details
- Communicated daily with all design teams to gather original samples that can be reference to during all meetings
- Communicated design details and constructions via technical specs and flats
- Conducted weekly production fittings
- Executed design into bulk production while maintaining standards
- Issued standard grade rules in preparation for bulk production
- Made appropriate recommendations in collaboration with cross-functional teams on matters pertaining to specs, pattern, construction methods and techniques to improve fit, balance, and overall quality of the garment.
- Maintained daily tech pack reports, adding samples upon receipt
- Managed updating of fit sample measurements and grading changes in tech packs
- Participated in departmental and cross-functional meetings as appropriate
- Prepared and organized garments for design and production meetings that occur on monthly basis
- Prioritized fit samples on hand to be reviewed and fit
- Tracked and managed personal workflow
- Translated Designers' sketches into digital, life-size technical sketches and spec packages
- Uploaded all spec packs throughout process into systems
- Utilized software, digital photos, and technical sketches as a tool of communicating to global vendor partners
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