Senior Pattern Maker - Product Development & Sample Room
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Job Description
- The Senior Pattern Maker will play a key technical role within our product development and sample room team and will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, fit, construction and technical feasibility of our garments.
Main responsibilities include
- Work closely with designers, merchandisers and the sample room team throughout the product development process, from first prototype through SMS and PPS.
- Create patterns from tech packs, design sketches, measurement charts, reference garments or customer requirements.
- Modify and perfect existing patterns according to fitting comments and development feedback.
- Ensure high standards of garment fit, balance, proportion, comfort and construction.
- Participate actively in fitting sessions and identify pattern, fit and construction issues.
- Analyse fitting comments and translate them into accurate pattern corrections.
- Check garment measurements and pattern accuracy before samples are sent to customers.
- Work directly with sample makers and provide clear technical and sewing instructions.
- Follow sample development closely and check garments during the making process when necessary, rather than waiting until the sample is completed.
- Identify technical or construction problems at an early stage and propose practical solutions.
- Work with the design team to ensure technical solutions respect the original design intention.
- Advise designers and merchandisers on construction, fit and technical feasibility when required.
- Create and apply grading rules according to approved measurement charts.
- Ensure patterns take into account the characteristics and behaviour of different fabrics, including woven and knitted materials.
- Calculate and validate fabric consumption and support marker optimization when required.
- Support the technical review of samples developed by our partner factories when required.
- Compare factory samples against approved patterns, tech packs, measurements and fit requirements when necessary.
- Proactively communicate with the design, merchandising, sample room and QA/QC teams to resolve technical issues without delaying development.
- Maintain a clear, accurate and well-organized digital pattern library.
- Ensure patterns, grading and technical information are properly identified and stored for future use.
Yêu cầu ứng viên
Skills & Experience
- Minimum 5 years of strong hands-on experience in garment pattern making, preferably within an export garment factory, sample room, buying office or garment development company.
- Strong experience in creating and correcting patterns from first prototype through approved sample.
- Excellent knowledge of garment fit, body measurements, balance, proportions and sizing.
- Strong practical knowledge of garment construction and sewing methods.
- Ability to identify the cause of a fit or construction problem and propose an effective technical solution.
- Strong experience with both woven and knitted garments.
- Experience with jackets, outerwear and technically complex garments is a strong advantage.
- Ability to read and interpret tech packs, spec sheets, measurement charts, design sketches and fitting comments.
- Good knowledge of fabrics and understanding of how different materials, weights, stretch, shrinkage and construction can affect pattern and fit.
- Strong experience in pattern grading and size development.
- Experience with professional CAD pattern-making and grading software such as Gerber or Lectra.
- Ability to calculate and optimize fabric consumption.
- Very strong attention to detail and high quality standards.
- Ability to organize work according to development priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to manage several product developments simultaneously.
- Proactive, practical, hands-on and solution-oriented.
- Strong teamwork and communication skills.
- Ability to work closely and constructively with designers, merchandisers, sample makers and QA/QC.
- Good spoken and written English is mandatory.
- Vietnamese language is required for daily communication with the sample room team.
- Profile
- We are looking for a Senior Pattern Maker who is not only technically strong but also proactive and involved in the complete product development process.
- The successful candidate should be able to understand a design, anticipate technical difficulties, work directly with the sample room, identify fit or construction problems and propose solutions.
We value a person who is
- Detail-oriented and quality-focused
- Organized and reliable
- Hands-on and practical
- Proactive in identifying and solving problems
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced product development environment
- Able to communicate clearly with different departments
- Willing to take responsibility for the technical quality of the products developed
- Package
- Salary and package to be discussed according to experience and technical skills.
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- Nguồn: CareerViet · đăng 10/09/2026