Textile product developer jobs in Finland
Textile product developers innovate and perform product design of apparel textiles, home textiles, and technical textiles (e.g. agriculture, safety, construction, medicine, mobile tech, environmental protection, sports, etc.). They apply scientific and technical principles to develop innovative textile products.
Textile product developer - Which skills are essential?
Distinguish accessories in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate accessories based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.
The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.
Using textile technique to produce hand-made products, such as carpets, tapestry, embroidery, lace, silk screen printing, wearing apparel, etc.
Developing structural and colour effects in weft knitted fabrics by using the weft knitting technique.
Creating, communicating and delivering value to customers of textile products and services.
Developing specifications for fibre based technical products with functional performances.
Be able to measure yarn length and mass to assess fineness of roving, sliver and yarn in different measuring systems.Also able to convert into the various numbering system such as tex, Nm, Ne, denier, etc.
Manufacturing of nonwoven fabrics according to specification. Development, manufacture, properties and evaluation of nonwoven fabrics.
Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.
Use textile finishing machine technologies that enable the coating or laminating of fabrics.
The process of managing teams and projects in textile and clothing product development.
Development of new concepts through the use of scientific and other methods of applied research.
Distinguish fabrics in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate fabrics based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.
Draw sketches to develop textiles or wearing apparel by hand. They create visualisations of the motives, patterns or products in order to be manufactured.
Textile technologies to design, manufacture and evaluate the properties of textiles.
Decorate wearing apparels and made up textile articles by hand or using machines. Decorate textile articles with ornaments, braided cords, golden yarns, soutaches, jewellery, and cristals.
Designing and developing structural and colour effects in woven fabrics by using the weaving technique.
Developing structural and colour effects in warp knitted fabrics by using the warp knitting technique.
Development, manufacturing requirements, properties and evaluation of braided fabrics.
Draw sketches to develop textiles or wearing apparel using softwares. They create visualisations of the motives, patterns or products in order to be manufactured.
The influence of chemical composition and molecular arrangement of yarn and fibre properties and fabric structure on the physical properties of textile fabrics; the different fibre types, their physical and chemical characteristics and different material characteristics; the materials used in different processes and the effect on materials as they are processed.
Addition of colour partially, according to the designed pattern, onto textile based materials. Processes for adding coloured patterns onto textile materials using printing machines and techniques (rotary of flat bed screen printing or others, heat transfer, inkjet, etc.).
Prepare for textile testing and evaluation, gathering the test samples, conducting and recording tests, validating data and presenting results.
The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.
Textile product developer - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Manufacturing technologies which use loop forming techniques to convert yarns into fabrics in order to form knitted fabrics.
Plan and monitor textile production to achieve control on behalf of quality, productivity and delivery time.
Complete the processing operation of man-made fibres and ensure that the product is made according to customer specification.
Chemical processing of textiles such as the reactions of textiles to chemicals.
Evaluating the physical properties of textiles by using testing methods, normally in accordance with a standard; it includes fibre identification and trouble shooting.
Develop recipes for dyeing and printing processes of textiles.
Use warp knitting machine technologies that enable the formation of fabrics. Able to set machines for warp knitting, colour and pattern for monitoring and controlling the warp knitting process on electronic automatic warp knitting machines equipped with multifunction microprocessor and software.
Operate machines that enable weaving processes turning threads into fabrics. Setup weaving machine programmes for the machine to produce fabrics with the adequate pattern, colour and fabric density.
Use warping, sizing, drawing-in and knotting technologies that enable the formation of warps.
Perform the operation, monitoring and maintenance of machines and processes to manufacture braided products while keeping efficiency and productivity at high levels.
Evaluate textiles and their properties in order to manufacture products in conformity with specifications.
Processes used for changing the properties of textile materials. This includes operating, monitoring and maintaining textile finishing machines.
Check characteristics of textile products like yarns, woven, knitted, braided, tufted or nonwoven textiles, finished cloths, ready-make-garments and determine the product quality along different stages of the textiles or clothing production line.