Apprentice Laboratory Technician and Technical Dyer/Colourist CAMIRA FABRICS LIMITED (HOLMFIRTH DYERS)

The broad purpose of the role is to produce highly specialised dyes and colours, and to provide dye and colour chemistry in the production of textiles, apparel, upholstery and fashion fabrics.

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Closing date: 30 Jun 2023

Apprenticeship summary

  • Annual wage

    £12,500.00

  • Working week

    Shifts and times to be confirmed.

    Total hours per week: 37

  • Expected duration

    29 Months

  • Possible start date

    03 Jul 2023

  • Date posted

    27 Apr 2023

  • Apprenticeship level

    Advanced
    Level 3 (A level)

  • Reference number

    VAC1000158531

  • Positions

    1 available

What will the apprentice be doing?

  • Create and monitor dye profiles for batch production and batch reporting, ensuring that appropriate decision making to tackle fault or quality issues is effectively undertaken
  • Understand dyeing chemistry best robust dyeing receipts in line with quality requirements, reliability and ecology
  • Perform effectively within a team environment and build strong positive working relationships with internal and external customers, colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers to ensure the mission and the ethos of the company is maintained
  • Understand data colour spectrophotometer and build on versional perception and date colour
  • Ability to scale up production from lab to production floor
  • Identify and formulate problem solving technical problems associated with errors or critical failures within the coloration industry
  • Carry out technical dye profiling for batch production, batch reporting analytics and problem solving/decision making to tackle fault or quality issues
  • Use pressure (jet) and atmospheric dyeing techniques and machinery to produce dyed fibres, yarns and fabrics including jig/winch, loose stock, vat, hank, yarn and top dyeing variations
  • Identify types of dye process needed to ascertain variations and differences of natural and man-made fibres, such as polyesters, wools, cottons and nylons
  • Maintain atmospheric and pressure dyeing systems, ensuring that presses, hoists and dispensary equipment including effluent control are managed and maintained, machinery utilisation is maximised, and downtime minimised through effective maintenance
  • Scrutinise the impact of environment science on dyeing and colouration processes and manage treatments that impact on the environment (such as spillage, effluent leakage, process controlling, implication and remedial activity)
  • Use relevant ICT systems and machinery such as flow control, valve pressure, valve opening machines and spectrometers to determine the correct dye colour

What training will the apprentice take and what qualification will the apprentice get at the end?

Level 3 Laboratory Technician Apprenticeship Standard. 

1 day per week in college, at Kirklees College, Waterfront Centre in Huddersfield.

You will complete an End Point Assessment this will involve the following:

  • Knowledge test
  • Observation with questioning
  • An interview

Where an apprentice has not already achieved Level 2 English and maths, they must do so before taking the end-point assessment.

What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship?

After successful completetion of the appreticeship, the apprentice will be consider for a full time/permanent position. 


Requirements and prospects

Desired skills and personal qualities

Problem solving skills, Analytical skills, Team working, Initiative, Drive, Interest in science, Interest in colour

Qualifications

GCSE or equivalent English, maths and science (Grade 4/C or above) Desired

About the employer

Camira Fabrics is a global business, employing over 600 people, producing fabrics ‘for spaces and places from offices to universities, hotels to hospitals, for buses to trains’.

Employer

CAMIRA FABRICS LIMITED (HOLMFIRTH DYERS)

Address

Holmfirth Dyers

Ribbleden Dye Works

Dunford Road

HD9 2DP

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Training

Training provider

KIRKLEES COLLEGE

Contact

Tamara Heaton

theaton@kirkleescollege.ac.uk

Apprenticeship standard

Laboratory technician

Level 3 (A level)


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