Grade 5 Senior Specialist Technician

About the role

Fashion Pattern Cutter (Digital Focus)

The School of Design, Art and Creative Industries are looking for an enthusiastic, productive, and self-motivated full-time member of staff to help provide specialist technical support to students and staff across our Fashion programmes.

With the continued emergence of digital technologies within the Design and Fashion industries an opportunity has arisen for a creative, enthusiastic, productive, and self-motivated member of staff to help provide specialist technical support to students across our fashion programmes, focusing primarily on digital pattern cutting.

About you

You must be able to demonstrate a high level of skill, experience and understanding primarily in digital pattern cutting, demonstrating an industry standard of competency in the use of Optitex pattern cutting software and its related equipment alongside the virtual realisation and digital prototyping programmes such as CLO3d.

Your ability to use these contemporary skills and integrate them along with an understanding and use of traditional aspects and skills associated within pattern cutting will help to underpin the principles of practice that sit at the heart of the school’s ethos. An understanding of garment construction and the use of associated industrial machinery is also highly desirable.

Reporting to the Technical Manager the successful candidate will be part of a large specialist team within Fashion supporting students in the making of blocks, patterns and shapes through workshops, inductions, demonstrations, 1:1’s, group discussion and drop-ins and providing supportive literature and digital content. while also partaking in the day-to-day running and technical activities of the department.

Ensuring the appropriate standards of best practice and Health and Safety protocols are met to create a vibrant, creative and innovative studio and workshop environment is also a must.

If invited to interview applicants will be asked to complete a relevant and associated skills test.

This is a full time position Mon-Fri although there is a possibility of some late night/weekend working.

Informal enquiries should be made to Kenny Macrae, Technical Support Manager by email at kenny.macrae@northumbria.ac.uk

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