As a Colourist 1, you will manage lab dips, ensure color accuracy and feasibility, collaborate with teams, and stay informed on industry standards.
Department: Colour Operations
Reports to: Senior Manager, Colour Operations
Location: North Vancouver, BC
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As a Colourist 1, you help bring Arc’teryx product to life! You are a natural communicator and eager collaborator: you will work with various internal and external partners daily to solve colour issues related to shade, feasibility, and colourfastness. You are flexible in the face of ambiguity and committed to digging into the daily and seasonal challenges that can come up when colouring up a complex technical product. In this role you will have the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of raw materials, raw materials quality testing and dyeing, so the opportunities for future career growth are limitless!
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is expected to be performed on-location.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Colour Operations is a close-knit team of hard-working collaborators. You will have your own portfolio of lab dips to work on, but we always jump in wherever needed to support the goals of the team.
If you were the Colorist 1 now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Owning a portfolio of lab dips.
- Ensuring efficient processing of lab dips for, ensuring accurate colour accuracy and aherance to quality standards across a complex technical garment offering
- Finding achievable solutions to problems related to colour feasibility, metamerism, colourfastness and shade.
- Collaborating with internal partners: Colour Design, Planning, Materials, RM Quality to achieve our common goals
- Staying abreast of colour quality industry, including digital tools, dyeing technology and testing methods
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Colour Operations is committed to continuous evolution to fit the needs of our growing business. You can have a hand in shaping the future of the department by contributing operational expertise, finessing processes, or deepening your technical knowledge.
Are you our next Colourist 1?
- You have 1.5 + years of experience on a colour team in the apparel industry and have a comprehensive knowledge of the colour development process.
- You have a degree in a related field or relevant combination of experience.
- You have proficient experience with PLM software, Microsoft Office Suite,- especially excel, Spectrophotometer equipment, ASAP Natific Software.
- You have a superior score on the Munsell Hue Colour test.
- You have a growth mindset and seek to understand, delving into root cause analysis and developing solutions.
- You are process orientated, organizationally orientated and a conscientious collaborator.
- Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
Top Skills
Asap Natific Software
Microsoft Office Suite
Plm Software
Spectrophotometer
ARC'TERYX North Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN Office
2220 Dollarton Hwy, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V7H 1A8
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