Technical Designer

Join our team to achieve your full career potential! We are proactive, outside the box thinkers and doers who stop at nothing to make the iconic Laura and Melanie Lyne brands shine! Privately owned and based in Laval, Quebec, with a strong vision for innovation and optimizing the employee and client experiences, we continue to help generations of Canadian women to look and feel their best.

As the Technical Designer, you will contribute to Laura's success by collaborating with Designers and Category Managers and producing Tech-Packs showing garment engineering for each style to ensure executable creation of samples.

How will you support the team?

• Create domestic and import Tech-Packs.
• Sketch styles using Illustrator.
• Request all fabric and style numbers for import and domestic.
• Prepare all Tech-Packs for hand-offs to Import Coordinators.
• Fabric follow-up, initial price, sampling, trim, etc. with vendor (necessary information to start the concept/collection).
• Work with Designer to create, execute and maintain collection boards (Illustrator & InDesign).
• Ensure all documents are up-to-date. 
• Research trims, special construction of a garment, embroideries if needed and provide trend ideas to the Designer.
• Measure original samples when needed.
• Create initial specs when needed.
• Comment on prototype samples when needed.
• Participate in fittings when needed.

The people who thrive with us have/are:

• A degree in Fashion Design 
• 1 to 3 years experience in a similar position
• Experience with Adobe Illustrator
• A strong knowledge of fabrics and trims
• Knowledge of garment engineering
• A passion for fashion

Don't miss this opportunity to join an exceptional team!

Laura Canada is a family-owned retailer housing two iconic women’s fashion apparel brands, Laura and Melanie Lyne. Based in Laval, Quebec, we design, produce, market and sell our fashion collections across Canada. We proudly employ over 2,000 dedicated team members and operate more than 140 retail store locations as well as operating laura.ca and melanielyne.com. We attribute our success to the unwavering commitment of our teams to delivering outstanding customer experiences while embodying our shared values of integrity, respect, teamwork, performance, and passion. We believe that delivering an outstanding customer experience is driven by our commitment to an outstanding employee experience.