clothing technologist
Code 2141.1
Clothing technologists work on the design, development and production of textile and apparel products. They carry out a range of technical, investigative and quality control work to ensure the end product (from clothing to household up to industrial textiles). They perform to specifications, improve production efficiency and quality while liaising with those involved in the production process. They liaise with designers, adapt designs to suit production methods, make and size pre-production garments, source fabrics and accessories, undertake quality evaluations of materials, check the quality of the final product, and consider ecological aspects.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- manufacturing of made-up textile articles
- manufacturing of wearing apparel
- health and safety in the textile industry
- standard sizing systems for clothing
- textile finishing technology
- apparel manufacturing technology
Skills and competences
- apply health and safety standards
- alter wearing apparel
- coordinate manufacturing production activities
- create patterns for garments
- distinguish accessories
- distinguish fabrics
- develop recycling programs
- evaluate garment quality
- manufacture wearing apparel products
- ensure equipment maintenance
- manage briefs for clothing manufacturing
- inspect wearing apparel products
- interpret technical texts
- operate garment manufacturing machines
- operate computerised control systems
- prepare production prototypes
- make technical drawings of fashion pieces
- write technical reports
- follow a tech pack
- control textile process
- use textile technique for hand-made products
Transversal competences
- analyse supply chain strategies
- manage production systems
- history of fashion
- measure working time in goods production
- perform process control in the wearing apparel industry
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences