Textile Design Engineer

• Take leading technical responsibility roles for assigned projects on upholstery textile/cover, and homeware, including material selection and specification, textile construction design & validation and with production friendly in consideration
• Responsible for making product documentation & specification on upholstery textile/cover and homeware products for suppliers to follow in production
• Work closely with Designer, resolve textile/cover part design to ensure optimal user experience while constantly pushing to minimize part complexity and cost
• Responsible for upholstery textile/cover and homeware products engineering solution improvement opportunities and implementation
• Understand legal requirements (and relevant standards) and ensure textile product compliance
• Work closely with the Package team, contribute to upholstery textile and homeware products’ packaging solutions
• Work with Quality responsible, to develop and implement in-house testing capability including lifecycle and other performance testing for upholstery textile/cover
• Work with Product Managers/Developers to communicate the technical agenda with suppliers and other development partners on upholstery textile/cover and homeware products
• Supporting Innovation Director in technical problems solving on upholstery textile/cover and homeware products
• Supporting Innovation Director on communicating effectively with key stakeholders including expressing the rationale of upholstery textile/cover and homeware products design and new design decisions, sourcing required information (internally and externally) as well as identifying, escalating and resolving issues arising from the design process
• Work closely with Designer and Product managers/Developers to secure the assigned product development project success on time

• Textile/Mechanical/Product Engineering education background
• Advanced knowledge of textile software (We use illustrator)
• 3-5 years of experience in a textile design engineering (or similar) role with exposure to high volume manufacturing is preferred
• Experience with consumer products and user centric design preferred
• Strong curiosity & ambition, enjoy problem solving
• Team player, with strong supportive spirit with positivity
• Experience in: Developing solutions to problems / obstacles that arise through Product development and concept generation for upholstery textile/cover
• Resolving designs to a level suitable for production of textile components and assemblies through fabrication etc.
• Creating 3D models, drawings, specifications and technical documentation including QC/QA tolerancing checks for production of upholstery textile/cover
• Development and production of prototypes for physical testing of specific component performance and product design performance elements for upholstery textile/cover
• Design and production of Jigs and Fixtures suitable for ad hoc or permanent life cycle testing for upholstery textile/cover

Experience with consumer products and user centric design preferred

• Hybrid working - ~3 days back in the Alexandria Treehouse (office) and work from bed/home (WFB)
• Generous time off - volunteer, parental, Koala life leave and more
• Fully stocked kitchen with an emphasis on healthy local produce, think bougie brekky, salad bar, kombucha on tap, monthly barbies and more
• Pet-friendly - The Koala Treehouse is as pet-friendly as they get
• Free Koala products with ‘mates rates’ for your friends and fam
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program, which includes unlimited sessions for financial, work, relationship, family or wellbeing support
• Accelerate your career - via our Learning Management platform Juno, as well as individual and team growth budgets and dedicated days
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