Apprentice Laboratory Technician and Technical Dyer/Colourist – Camira Fabrics Limited (Holmfirth Dyers)

• 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

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.

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