Apprentice Technical dyer and colourist
A multi-award-winning textile manufacturer with two centuries of heritage and a forward-thinking approach to innovation and sustainability, Camira designs and manufactures environmental fabrics for the commercial, public transport and residential sectors.
The broad purpose of the occupation is to produce highly specialised dyes and colours to provide dye and colour chemistry in the production of textiles, apparel, upholstery and fashion fabrics.
Responsibilities
Create and monitor dye profiles for batch production and batch reporting, ensuring that appropriate decision making to tackle fault or quality issues is effectively undertaken
Understand dyeing chemistry best robust dyeing receipts in line with quality requirements, reliability and ecology.
Perform effectively within a team environment and build strong positive working relationships with internal and external customers, colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers to ensure the mission and the ethos of the company is maintained.
Understand data colour spectrophotometer and build on versional perception and date colour.
Ability to scale up production from lab to production floor.
Identify and formulate problem solving technical problems associated with errors or critical failures within the coloration industry
Carry out technical dye profiling for batch production, batch reporting analytics and problem solving/decision making to tackle fault or quality issues
Use pressure (jet) and atmospheric dyeing techniques and machinery to produce dyed fibres, yarns and fabrics including jig/winch, loose stock, vat, hank, yarn and top dyeing variations
Identify types of dye process needed to ascertain variations and differences of natural and man-made fibres, such as polyesters, wools, cottons and nylons
Maintain atmospheric and pressure dyeing systems, ensuring that presses, hoists and dispensary equipment including effluent control are managed and maintained, machinery utilisation is maximised, and downtime minimised through effective maintenance
Scrutinise the impact of environment science on dyeing and colouration processes and manage treatments that impact on the environment (such as spillage, effluent leakage, process controlling, implication and remedial activity)
Use relevant ICT systems and machinery such as flow control, valve pressure, valve opening machines and spectrometers to determine the correct dye colour
Skills/Qualifications
Preferred grading 4 in Maths, English and Chemistry
Good colour vision
Interest in colour matching, textiles and chemistry
Contact Email: nina.dwyer@camirafabrics.com or call on 07540219000.
Please add “as seen on Holmfirth Info” within your application.
