Equip Outdoor Technologies
Product Technologist
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Great opportunity to join our Team as Product Technologist!
You will take ownership of product quality across the Rab apparel range, ensuring all products are engineered, constructed, and manufactured to the highest standards of quality, performance, and fit-for-purpose functionality, while meeting critical delivery timelines.
Key Responsibilities of Product Technologist (including but not limited to):
- Multi product experience within outdoor equipment and apparel
- Prepare seasonal development tracker and ensure all outputs are scheduled in-line with Buy calendar
- Receive style handover from Product development, post SMS
- Working with the buying department to have visibility of capacity planning
- Create Production Tech Pack / Prepare and maintain accurate technical specifications
- Send out SMS specs for carry-over styles/new colours
- Prepare and confirm packaging details (i.e. carton quantity, size, packaging materials etc)
- Vendor resourcing after SMS (as required)
- Work with overseas supply manufacturers to process product from SMS through to production
- Support the Asia QC team in ensuring Quality Standards are in place before start of production
- Make sure that our standards are delivered through manufacturing stages
- Action Size Set / Receive Size set - Fit & Comment
- Bulk Trim Approval - Trim, Thread, Embroidery, Print
- Update & Translate Wash care information
- Durability Wash Testing - additional testing following the SMS hand over from PD
- Action PP Sample / Receive PP Sample - Fit & Comment
- Approve style for Bulk Production - Send Production Spec
- Ad-hoc carry out AQL inspections when the product lands within the UK warehouse
- Partner with Equip China QC team to drive improvements in supply base
- Update BC for "in-season" updates/changes/fabrics on carry-over styles
- Own SMU pre-production/production process
- Own FUU (Fabric use up) pre-production/production process
- Customer Returns - Analysis/Actions
- Fit/Block Maintenance – Storage of Production patterns
- Overseas travel / QC Inspection Trips to Vendors (as and when required)
- Product compliance requirements, ensuring all products meet relevant legal, regulatory, safety, quality and customer standards
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