The Technical dyer and colourist occupation is discovered throughout the textile manufacturing sector. The broad objective of the occupation is to supply extremely specialised dyes and colors to supply dye and color chemistry within the manufacturing of textiles, attire, upholstery and style materials.
Of their day by day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with all kinds of people from essentially the most senior technologists, leaders and administrators, to buy flooring operatives. Technical Dyers and Colourists work in a manufacturing unit surroundings, interchanging between manufacturing services and laboratories. Nearly all their work is indoors and inside a managed environments the place they cope with clients by phone or electronic mail over technical information/job sheets.
An worker on this occupation is accountable for the precise scientific evaluation, correct measurements, trials, manufacturing and high quality of dyed, pigmented and color purposes to clothes in a closely industrialised/mechanised state of affairs. They work in a senior position and lead a crew of dyehouse operatives. They report on to senior administration and administrators and have general scrutiny and duty for the accuracy of manufactured merchandise throughout the dyeing and colouration surroundings. Technical Dyers and Colourists are employed throughout micro companies, SMEs and huge companies, starting from small dyehouse companies to giant chemical, clothes and retail model companies.
Color chemist
Color scientist
Dye technologist
Dye-house technician
Laboratory supervisor
Laboratory technician
Manufacturing managers
Senior dye-house supervisor
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K1: Dyeing and colouration of textiles/materials within the general textile provide chain together with the historical past of dyeing within the UK, the dyeing strategies have advanced and the widespread practices of dyehouse operations
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K2: Methods for manufacturing together with world resourcing, strategic planning, administration tradition and expectation and plant operations that impact the manufacturing course of
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K3: Product necessities utilized in dyeing and colouration of yarns and materials together with manufacturing software, number of use, innovation, value management and pricing fluctuation
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K4: Danger evaluation & administration, hazard identification & rectification, protected working techniques and an understanding of the authorized frameworks that have an effect on textile manufacturing, comparable to Management of Substances Hazardous to Well being Laws, (CoSHH), Registration, Analysis, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances Regulation (REACH) and some other statutory rules
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K5: Fibre processes, fibre varieties and particular dyes for coloration manufacturing and the way fibres react beneath chemical processes
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K6: Background and nature of the worldwide textile trade, together with how the textile colouration markets are served worldwide, the products which are procured, the providers to enterprise, buyer expectations and who the provision chain works
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K7: Hazard protocols together with protected storage of dyestuffs and chemical substances
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K8: Dye and color manufacturing gear used for dyeing and colouring fibres, yarns and materials for processing
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K9: Color chemistry within the manufacturing course of and the way it impacts the completed product. This contains the technical information of protein fibres, cellulosic fibres, artificial fibres, and man-made fibres and the constructions of dye molecules
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K10: Chemical and bodily theories that underpin textiles from uncooked materials via to completed colored cloth/garment together with color physics, color measurement and the implementation in a laboratory and manufacturing setting.
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K11: Technique of making use of chemistry to textile colouration together with reactions, pH management, methodology and rationale together with which fibre with which dye you would choose for utilization.
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K12: High quality and environmental requirements applicable for color fastness each legislated and advisory in relation to effluent, protected chemical utilization, natural textiles and different supplies
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K13: Equipment and engineering design, the movement and means of manufacturing, dye stress, suitability, and product preparation used inside dye/color equipment and the impact of processing on product high quality
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K14: Environmental controls and implications of failure
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K15: A spread of trade ICT techniques to find out the right dye color
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Expertise
S1: Create and monitor dye profiles for batch manufacturing and batch reporting, making certain that applicable determination making to deal with fault or high quality points is successfully undertaken
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S2: Develop operational plans that have an effect on dye manufacturing, together with the completion of specialist, technical stories and information to articulate outcomes
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S3: Carry out successfully inside a crew surroundings and construct robust constructive working relationships with inside and exterior clients, colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers to make sure the mission and the ethos of the corporate is maintained.
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S4: Determine and formulate downside fixing technical issues related to errors or vital failures throughout the coloration trade
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S5: Perform technical dye profiling for batch manufacturing, batch reporting analytics and downside fixing/determination making to deal with fault or high quality points
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S6: Use stress (jet) and atmospheric dyeing strategies and equipment to supply dyed fibres, yarns and materials together with jig/winch, free inventory, vat, hank, yarn and high dyeing variations
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S7: Determine forms of dye course of wanted to determine variations and variations of pure and man-made fibres, comparable to polyesters, wools, cottons and nylons
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S8: Perform technical steps within the manufacturing choice course of to make sure non-routine dye therapies and software strategies are constant
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S9: Efficient crew efficiency, constructing constructive relationships with stakeholders to make sure the mission and the ethos of the corporate is maintained all through the client journey
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S10: Successfully talk in any respect ranges, detailing dye and colouration data with readability, logic and accuracy demonstrating a excessive diploma of technical element to stakeholders
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S11: Preserve atmospheric and stress dyeing techniques, making certain that presses, hoists and dispensary gear together with effluent management are managed and maintained, equipment utilisation is maximised and downtime minimised via efficient upkeep
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S12: Contribute to operational plans together with specialist, technical stories and information to bolster outcomes and determination making comparable to Figuring out priorities that have an effect on the working of manufacturing
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S13: Scrutinise the impression of surroundings science on dyeing and colouration processes and handle therapies that impression on the surroundings (comparable to spillage, effluent leakage, course of controlling, implication and remedial exercise)
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S14: Analyse data, formulate judgements and articulate reasoned arguments via reflection, assessment and analysis
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S15: Use related ICT techniques and equipment comparable to movement management, valve stress, valve opening machines and spectrometers to find out the right dye color
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Behaviours
B1: Acts with honesty and integrity as key indicators of competence while selling a collective possession of efficiency via a ‘zero error/proper first time’ method
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B2: Flexibility and adaptableness within the office, exhibiting positivity in coping with altering patterns to satisfy enterprise priorities
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B3: Accountable method to handle, mitigate and keep away from threat via self-awareness, openness and sensitivity to variety by way of operate, individuals, tradition, enterprise and administration exercise
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B4: Present power and enthusiasm within the position together with coping with setbacks, coping beneath stress
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B5: Self-manage work constraints by way of useful resource, planning, behaviour, motivation and enterprise
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B6: Be certain that consumer confidentiality is honoured and maintained constantly
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B7: Logical thinker, utilizing cognitive abilities to analyse data and establish options
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