Pattern Technologist - Hanwella

We are MAS, an innovation driven company founded on a perfect blend of daring and visionary thinking. Focusing on fashion and lifestyle, we are one of Asia’s largest manufacturers of intimate apparel, sportswear, performance wear and swimwear, and in recent years have diversified to provide specialized IT solutions to the apparel and footwear industry worldwide. We also own Sri Lanka’s first international brand of lingerie – amanté. MAS provides an empowering culture for our 68,000 associates to activate their full potential. Our identity, which goes beyond great products, is deeply embedded in community wellbeing and nurturing world-class teams.

Linea Aqua is a multi-million dollar joint venture between MAS Holdings, Speedo International Limited and Brandot International. As a leading manufacturer of performance and high fashion swimwear , Linea Aqua is a truly global company providing solutions to leaders in the global swimwear industry, such as Speedo, Victoria’s secret, Lands’ end and Calvin Klein. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility based in Hanwella and Naiwala has a highly skilled staff of over 5,000 employees. We advocate ethical manufacturing and labor standards, ensuring that all our employees are well remunerated and provided with the best benefits in the industry.

Pattern Technologist – Hanwella.

Key Responsibilities;  

You will be responsible to interpret given set of customer designs and construct patterns in order to facilitate the sample development process thereby meet customer requirements & provide correct patterns/information to production in line with development & production calendar

You would also be required to:

• Coordinate with garment technologist to assess individual proto-type designs and prepare first patterns to support the sample development process
• Facilitate other departments with relevant information and apply necessary changes to garment base on customer changes in order to ensure fit garments are according to the customer requirement & make sure approvals are in line with production calendar.
• Attend to fit meetings & internal fit sessions with PDT in order to identify correction & to make sure customer requirement are fulfilled.
• Prepare graded patterns for photo shoot/sales man & other sample programs & ratio makers
• Prepare graded patterns for size set samples & finalize grading for bulk production. Handover all related finish boards to production, quality & subcontractors with agreed time lines.
• Attend development meeting / technical meeting / size set meeting /shrinkage finalizing meeting / PP meeting /Process improvement meetings etc
• Update the tracking chart according to the production plan.
• Prepare, maintain documents & provide necessary information to other departments

Qualifications and Experience;

• Degree / Diploma in Textile and Apparel
• Minimum of three years experience in pattern making
• Exposure in Lectra system pattern making
• Good commination skills

CLOSING DATE   : 4th February 2015

CONTACT US;

Name                : Dinali Perera

E mail Address   : careers@lineaaqua.com

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualifying candidates to join our team of MAS professionals