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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Working to ensure a positive and hassle-free customer experience.• Handling goods with sanitation and safety in mind.• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of all retail promotions.• Settling any customer disputes in a professional and pleasant manner.• Carrying out hands-on management of the dye house operations and improvement of dyeing operations.• Ensuring dye house meets all production and quality needs.• Overseeing scheduling, materials, and labour to ensure that dyeing deadlines are achieved.• Supervising the dyeing operations team.• Resolving technical issues in dyeing operations.• Reviewing and evaluating internal processes to improve efficiency.• Resolving dyeing mistakes and finishing problems.• Managing overall waste management in dye house, safe disposal of dyes and chemicals.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Responsible for overseeing shift dyeing. Managed process, production, cost, quality, human relation, safety, housekeeping, and inventory.• Enforced and maintained production procedures to improve trends on waste, repairs, quality, production, and downtime.• Organised and scheduled the production of machines and optimised the efficiency of the process to support planning requirements and respect delivery times.• Controlled all labour, materials, parts, machinery, supplies and any other expenses we had within budgeted cost.• Ensured shifts met current budget standards.• Maintained variances below zero.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Performed many tasks relating to colouring wool and yarn including cutting fabric, washing it, bleaching, or distressing it, and dyeing it.• Responsible for preparing dye mixes according to established formulae and was frequently called upon to develop new colour formulations and to perfectly replicate colours by sight.• Skilled at replicating the Pantone colours, even if I didn’t have access to the standard primary colour dyes produced by Pantone itself.• Operated dyeing and finishing equipment including jet dyeing, pad dyeing, and running the dryer.• Weighed dyes and chemicals.• Loaded and unloaded fabric into dye vessel.• Maintained quality to customer specifications.• Contributed to a clean environment.• Maintained work areas and equipment.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Prepared machines for operation by selecting and installing attachments and components for specialised functions.• Set and operated controls used to regulate processing operations.• Started machines and monitors operation to detect faults and ensure effectiveness of operation.• Threaded loom shuttles with cross-yarn arms.• Positioned and fed machines with fibre packages.• Repaired broken yarns by tying and splicing ends.• Examined finished products for defects and variations, reported faults in machines, and carried out quality control procedures.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Performed office administration and customer service, as well as participated in studio production of dyed fabrics to learn the nuts and bolts of the textile industry.• Extreme attention to detail to learn high standards for quality.• Flexible, enjoyed multitasking and was comfortable switching between projects.• I was self-motivated and enjoyed a balance of office and occasional studio work and teamwork. I was quick on my feet and had strong people skills.• Responsibilities included liaison with customers, representatives, and suppliers, order processing, sales reports and marketing, inventory and supply management, bills and payroll, and facilities management.