Role Description

Skills required

You’ll need:

• strong practical skills
• IT skills
• the ability to lead a team
• creativity and problem-solving skills
• organisational skills

What you'll do

Your day-to-day duties may include:

• developing new fibres
• working with designers and customers to meet their needs
• finding ways to improve the look, feel and lasting quality of fabrics
• developing and testing chemical processes 
• creating new colours for dyeing and printing processes
• researching production methods to keep costs under control
• programming new processes into computers for textile machinery
• overseeing the production process and visiting suppliers
• checking the quality of materials and final products