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• Supervising work set by teaching staff for students Year 7 to Year 13 in all curriculum areas• Managing behavior effectively to Eckington School's behavior policy• Collecting completed work and resources and returning all to the appropriate teacher• Supporting student teacher in the classroom

• Account manager for multiple accounts working with cross functional multi-disciplined teams• Designing and developing technical fabrics in line with target prices and fabric specifications• Multi textile technologies – weaving including dobby and jacquard, warp knitting and secondary processes, including embossing and printing • Excellent project management skills – trial sample requests, yarn orders, weave specifications, sample request forms. Tracking developments through manufacturing process steps• Regularly attending European customer meetings and managing fabric developments• Tracking deliverables and meeting aggressive deadlines• Raising purchase orders and liaising with suppliers and customers• Training members of the global design team• Reporting directly to higher management

• Account manager for multiple accounts and attending European customer meetings• Reporting to senior members of the team on status of projects• Excellent colour vision – evaluation of lab dyes, colour matching and creation of master samples• Co-ordinating and presenting the global design collection, showcasing key colour trends and fabric innovations• Support with engineering and commercial tasks• Training new graduate designers• Setting up the new FedEx account and creating commercial invoices

Large manufacturer of narrow loom Axminister carpets, designing and producing high-quality hand-crafted flooring for hotels, leisure and hospitality sector• Designing carpets to meet customer specific design briefs• Design new stock carpet ranges and ongoing design development work• Produce production work prior to manufacturing• Producing samples using the carpet sampling machine

• 12-month placement – highly involved working within a professional design studio and participated in a variety of different areas across the business