Company: Arc’teryx Equipment
Office address: 100 – 2155 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC V7H 3B2
110-2220 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC V7H 1A8
Location: North Vancouver, BC
Salary Range: $92,115 ($82,000 - $113,000)
Benefits: Annual Incentive Plan, extended medical and dental, RRSP Matching, 3 weeks paid time off
Language: English
Term: 40 hours per week, permanent, full-time employment
Contact: [email protected]
Department: Supply Chain
Reports to: Senior Manager, Pattern Grading
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Patternmaker Grader 2, you will be responsible for transitioning patterns from development to production and producing accurate graded production patterns. You will have the opportunity to work on multiple calendars and product categories in a fast-paced environment, and your cross-functional partnership with Designers, Sample Sewers, Product Developers, and Factory partners will ensure our sized products maintain design integrity.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver design center and is expected to be performed on-location.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Pattern Grading Team transitions patterns from development to production and produces accurate graded production patterns. Through collaboration and partnership with our internal product development teams and our external factory partners, the team is responsible for ensuring our final sized products maintain integrity of design, function and production accuracy developed on the base size.
If you were the Patternmaker Grader 2 now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Interpreting design intent to create prototype, sample and production patterns, ensuring that methods and documentation are consistent with known factory methods and processes
- Grading production patterns, ensuring that all grading of like products and documentation are consistent and completed following development and production schedules
- Ensuring that grading formulas on all finished garment measurement specifications and templates are accurate and reproducible in garment form
- Participating in graded size run checks to ensure grading maintains integrity of design, function and production accuracy developed on the base size
- Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Providing patterning and grading support to both direct and co-development with our manufacturing partners
- Using 3D tools to assist with patterning, grading and fit review
- Receiving advanced grading and patternmaking training and CLO3D workshops
- Supporting team objectives related to timeline, costs and product solutions that meet business goals
Are you our next Patternmaker Grader 2?
- Three (3)+ years’ production patternmaking and grading experience, preferably in the outdoor industry
- Knowledge of garment construction, with a specialty in grading
- Completion of secondary school and post secondary program/courses in design/patternmaking
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator and CAD system
- You have strong written and spoken communications skills
- Excellent attention to detail, including accurate data entry
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- Effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
- You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
- You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
- You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
Skills Required
- Three (3)+ years' production patternmaking and grading experience, preferably in the outdoor industry
- Knowledge of garment construction, with a specialty in grading
- Completion of secondary school and post secondary program/courses in design/patternmaking
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator and CAD system
- Strong written and spoken communications skills
- Excellent attention to detail, including accurate data entry
- Flexibility and adaptability when faced with ambiguity
- Ability to balance autonomy and collaboration
- Proactive in identifying root causes of issues and developing solutions
- Passion for work and outdoor activities
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
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