Serving the needs of all families with young children, Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Partner with HK Technical Design (TD) team to work closely with factories, facilitating processes and solving issues in country quickly.
Development Tasks
- Maintain library of patterns and blocks, digitize where needed
- Collaborate with Sourcing to resolve development issues and provide technical design clarifications under Senior TD guidance.
Fit Reviews
- Evaluate fit samples for construction, fit, balance, workmanship, measurements, and safety.
- Partner with vendor technicians to implement corrections and improve samples.
- Escalate construction and grading issues
- Approve product complexities based on department allocation, suggest pattern corrections.
- Approve artwork placement, align with Senior TD when necessary.
- Communicate artwork placement comments to Sourcing.
- Track fit status of assigned styles
- Apply strong pattern review and correction skills across all allocated products.
- Contribute to Global Technical Design discussions with relevant topics
Vendor Management
- Act as the gatekeeper to apply process and fit standards
- Escalate non-conformities and recurring performance issues.
- Survey Sample making process – detect possible gap in the process and monitor improvement
- Support building training materials and facilitate vendor training sessions.
- Monitor vendor certified technician performance
- Participate in pre-production (PP) meetings and review TOP samples.
- Prepare mini markers to support consumption and cost analysis as requested by Sourcing.
- Partner with QA for technical audits during key production stages.
- Document findings and clarify issues with sample room staff.
- Confirm unresolved issues with Carter’s internal resources.
- Train sample room technicians on Carter’s standards (blocks, grading, PLM, artwork placement, etc.).
- Maintain and update the sample log daily.
REQUIREMENTS
- Textiles or Fashion Design studies, preferred (or equivalent years of experience)
- Minimum 4 years of technical experience
- Previous work experience in a sourcing office for Childrenswear products is preferred
- Strong Excel skills (vlookup, pivot tables, etc.)
Working knowledge of Gerber, PLM, and AI