Product Technologist

**Product Technologist**
**Location: Radcliffe **3-Month Contract**
**Monday - Friday 08.30-17.00pm. Work from home on Fridays.**
**Salary: £28-£29k**
Main Purpose of Role:
As Product Technologist you will be fully involved in the total cradle to grave life span of a range of home furnishing products, ensuring compliance with identified standards. You will be accountable for demonstrating due diligence in the evaluation and approvalof agreed product categories, ensuring standards of quality, appearance, durability, safety, functionality, fit for purpose and legal requirements are met at all times.
**Key Tasks & Accountabilities**:

- Working closely with our Sales, Merchandising and Buying Departments to ensure complete product information is available to produce accurate product specifications.
- Produce full technical documentation for issue to the factories, thus ensuring each product is manufactured to highest possible standards and complies with designated specifications. This will cover fabric construction/composition, fabric printing/dyeing/colour,stitching/assembly, folding/packing and care labelling based on fabric performance during use and cleaning.
- Request and assess strike-off and lab dip fabric samples against standards for quality, colour and print.
- Request and assess pre-production and pre-shipment seal samples for make-up, stitching and dimensions.
- Request, check and grade test reports to ensure fabrics and products perform in accordance with customer requirements.
**Key Skills**
Strong initiative and proactive approach to all tasks
Excellent communication skills
Achievement drive
Articulate and creative
Strong attention to detail
The ability to organise and prioritise effectively in order to meet tight deadlines.
Able to interpret data and make decisions based on it
**Experience:**
Technical experience within the home furnishings or têxtile industry, covering a variety of different têxtile product types.
Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
Good interpersonal skills