Textile Engineer Job Description

Textile Engineer Job Description

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Textile engineer provides end-user support for hardware, peripherals, and software including MS Office suite applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Adobe, third-party software, and web applications.

Textile Engineer Duties & Responsibilities

To write an effective textile engineer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included textile engineer job description templates that you can modify and use.

Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Support new business development efforts through leading application development projects and customer contact
Lead textile, fiber and film application development and support for Sports & Recreation based on next generation products
Plan manufacturing order releases
Providing supervision of team members (including students) as required
Focusing on understanding the impact of raw materials, processes and other external factors on the durability of final product performance
Linking the chemical, physical and mechanical properties of fibers, textiles, and flexible composites to apparel performance
Partnering with team members and cross-functional stakeholders to identify, develop and utilize textile characterization and aging capabilities
Leveraging forensic analysis tools to understand textile impact on product failure and durability risk
Provide technical/management leadership on major tasks or assignments
Establish goals and plans that meet project objectives

Textile Engineer Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Education for Textile Engineer

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the textile engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Science, Education, Chemistry, Technical, Manufacturing, Fibers, Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Skills for Textile Engineer

Desired skills for textile engineer include:

Excel and PowerPoint
Materials testing equipment
Microsoft Office: Word
Current trends
Design/Process Excellence
Medical devices regulations and experience incorporating manufacturability into the new product development is desire
Clothing technology and textile engineering
Design software like Adobe Creative Suite
Development
E-textiles

Desired experience for textile engineer includes:

Relevant experience on Soft Signage / Sign and display printing, deep understanding of applications and workflows
Solid background on Design and Characterization processes
Able to establish external collaborations to integrate key assets for HP end-to-end solutions
Relocation applicable based on candidate experience
Demonstrated experience in Textile digital applications will be also valued
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in an Engineering/Science related discipline

Textile Engineer Examples

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Textile Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of textile engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for textile engineer
  • Demonstrates domain and expert technical knowledge
  • Directs and controls activities to ensure that technical requirements are met
  • Provide senior level technical expertise in specialty engineering for the entire engineering lifecycle in the Textile engineering discipline
  • Interoperability analysis, system standards, military operations (ground, sea, air, and space), program analysis, requirements analysis, program planning, and cost analysis
  • Set and maintain overall direction for a program to control overall scope, budget, and schedule for complex, multi-project programs
  • Coordinate efforts with other functions of the organization
  • Analyze, research, design and develop materials and their related fabrication and application processes to develop and optimize materials for use in engineering design of and/or application in structures, systems and subsystems
  • Develop, analyze and apply material properties and design allowables, processing processes and quality engineering specifications
  • Material analyses may include failure analysis of components, systems and subsystems, life predictions, and definition and requirement specifications
  • Provide supervision of team members (including students) as required
Qualifications for textile engineer
  • 1 to 2 years experience of textile industry
  • Minimum 4-7 years of experience in a technical role
  • 5+ years’ experience across digital printing industry related jobs
  • Demonstrated understanding of project management tools, qualification techniques, as utilized in an environment of continuous improvement
  • Demonstrated ability to influence across multiple levels and functions
  • Leadership and fluid communication
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Textile Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of textile engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for textile engineer
  • Establish protocols to quantify fiber, film, fabric and garment performance as related to end use performance
  • Conduct customer trials of newly developed products for apparel markets
  • Develop end user based textile application tests to validate performance including knitting and finishing
  • Investigate alternative film, fiber, fabric and garment constructions to optimize performance
  • Assist other regional application labs and interdivisional projects
  • Stay current with new developments in TPU chemistry, characterization and processing
  • Provide customer and conference technical or product presentations as requested
  • Proactively maintain a safe working environment and other required scientist functions
  • Provide basic QA support to the Division including complaint investigation, resolution and reporting
  • Responsible to investigate the customer/sales force complaints and assure complaints are investigated accurately and closed in a reasonable amount of time
Qualifications for textile engineer
  • Experienced with effectively interfacing with customers in both a one-on-one setting presentations to larger groups
  • Independently plan and execute specialized testing to meet established deadlines
  • Superior customer focus, knows/identify customer’s needs, key satisfaction/dissatisfaction drivers
  • Desire & Ability to work in a cross-functional team within a multicultural environment
  • BS in Textiles OR MS
  • Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering, Polymer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Textile Engineering
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a textile engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for textile engineer
  • Performs top level design, development, fabrication, testing, installation, troubleshooting
  • Run monthly or quarterly complaint trend reports per SOP.    
  • Contacting product manager/production/manufacturing facility for corrective/preventative actions
  • Issue replacements/credit orders/RGAs as required for complaint resolution and to notify sale reps/customers the results of the investigation. 
  • Identify work in process and authorize production stoppage when appropriate to prevent further complaints
  • Initiate supplier corrective action reports to suppliers and follow up with them to implement the corrective actions
  • Determines tasks that are required for a project and accepts responsibility for project outcome
  • Develop a thorough understanding of all factors and conditions that impact the processes and products, including environmental impacts
  • Use sound project management skills to manage multiple improvement projects
  • Analyze problems and implement solutions using critical thinking skills and focused improvement methods
Qualifications for textile engineer
  • Knowledge of Value Engineering / Component Engineering process
  • Must have Self driven approach in driving projects
  • Strong writing and communication skills in English local language
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience with textile or flexible composite materials, processing and characterization OR minimum 3 years with Master’s or Ph.D
  • Strong working knowledge of the mechanical behavior of textiles or flexible composites
  • Experience linking textile properties, structure, processing and performance
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Textile Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of textile engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for textile engineer
  • Incorporate creative thinking into the problem solving approach to identify unique and different ways to make things better/more consistent/faster/cheaper/efficient
  • Prepare diagrams, charts, tables to reflect findings and support recommendations
  • Communicate and work effectively with a diverse group of associates to accomplish project and location goals
  • Develop and implement manufacturing process improvements
  • Drive new performance levels
  • Improve quality, consistency and cost
  • Use project management skills to manage multiple improvement projects
  • Prepare diagrams, charts and tables to reflect findings and support recommendations
  • Support the installation and technical issues related the textile equipment
  • Shooting, Root Cause Analysis and repairs on printers and print systems that may be experiencing complex RIP FIERY and INEDIT
Qualifications for textile engineer
  • Expertise in textile, synthetic manufacturing technologies
  • Strong knowledge of textile/flexible composite testing and characterization
  • Experience with forensics/failure mode analysis
  • Must be a “U.S. Person” – a citizen (native or naturalized), green card holder, or certain refugee
  • Advanced degree in Materials Science and Engineering, Polymer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Textile Engineering
  • Experience with ePTFE/fluoropolymer fibers
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Textile Engineer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a textile engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for textile engineer
  • Ensure proper documentation in the concept development stage, including product definition, concept descriptions, material specification and Intellectual Property disclosures
  • Provide customer reports of actions taken during On Site visit
  • Going formal customer operator and printer maintenance overviews
  • Interact effectively at multiple levels of customer organization to encourage adherence to EFI operation and maintenance requirement
  • Respond to onsite service incidences in a timely manner via Telephone, Email, text
  • Directs and manages large‐scale, complex programs
  • Sets and maintains overall direction for a program
  • Coordinates efforts with other functions
  • Enables technically the GSS EMEA LFP organization to manage and deliver Applications Services, in the form of trainings and consulting
  • Develops technical action plans to provide solutions to technical questions/elevations/requests from customers (channel partners and end users)
Qualifications for textile engineer
  • Experience with lamination of flexible composites and relevant adhesives
  • Experience working with external agencies/standards committees on method standardization
  • Direct and manage complex programs
  • Minimum education requirement of High School/GED with 20 years of experience or Associates Degree with 16 years of experience or Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 10+ years of experience
  • 2+ years of experience applying the principles of chemistry, physics, and material behavior to develop metallic, non-metallic and composite material and processing specifications, fabrication and assembly processes
  • 2+ years of experience in analysis of components, systems and subsystems, life predictions, and definition and requirement specifications

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