Company: Arc’teryx Equipment

Office address: 100 – 2155 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC V7H 3B2
110-2220 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC V7H 1A8

Location: North Vancouver, BC

Salary Range: $92,115 ($82,000 - $113,000)

Benefits: Annual Incentive Plan, extended medical and dental, RRSP Matching, 3 weeks paid time off

Language: English

Term: 40 hours per week, permanent, full-time employment

Contact: [email protected]

Department: Supply Chain

Reports to: Senior Manager, Pattern Grading

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Patternmaker Grader 2, you will be responsible for transitioning patterns from development to production and producing accurate graded production patterns. You will have the opportunity to work on multiple calendars and product categories in a fast-paced environment, and your cross-functional partnership with Designers, Sample Sewers, Product Developers, and Factory partners will ensure our sized products maintain design integrity.

This role is based out of our North Vancouver design center and is expected to be performed on-location.

Meet Your Future Team:

The Pattern Grading Team transitions patterns from development to production and produces accurate graded production patterns. Through collaboration and partnership with our internal product development teams and our external factory partners, the team is responsible for ensuring our final sized products maintain integrity of design, function and production accuracy developed on the base size.

### If you were the Patternmaker Grader 2 now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

Interpreting design intent to create prototype, sample and production patterns, ensuring that methods and documentation are consistent with known factory methods and processes

Grading production patterns, ensuring that all grading of like products and documentation are consistent and completed following development and production schedules

Ensuring that grading formulas on all finished garment measurement specifications and templates are accurate and reproducible in garment form

Participating in graded size run checks to ensure grading maintains integrity of design, function and production accuracy developed on the base size

Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain

### Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

Providing patterning and grading support to both direct and co-development with our manufacturing partners

Using 3D tools to assist with patterning, grading and fit review

Receiving advanced grading and patternmaking training and CLO3D workshops

Supporting team objectives related to timeline, costs and product solutions that meet business goals

### Are you our next Patternmaker Grader 2?

Three (3)+ years’ production patternmaking and grading experience, preferably in the outdoor industry

Knowledge of garment construction, with a specialty in grading

Completion of secondary school and post secondary program/courses in design/patternmaking

Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator and CAD system

You have strong written and spoken communications skills

Excellent attention to detail, including accurate data entry

You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity

Effectively balance autonomy and collaboration

You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions

You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement

You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right

Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it

Equal Opportunity

Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.

Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core values, while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.

All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.

Design your Purpose. Live our Values.

Patternmaker Grader 2

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