Location: Honduras, San Pedro Sula

Employment Type: Salaried

Team: FB Corporate

Company Overview

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

The Garment Technician actively leads all aspects pertaining to core block pattern adherence, construction, quality, fit, measuring, grading, and decoration placement, including training the vendors technical product team. The Garment Technician will be the key liaison between the US office, regional office and vendors to implement and ensure adherence to brand product technical standards in development to production ready status.

Responsibilities

Product Standards / Process / Manuals

• Oversee vendor adherence to block pattern library established by each brand
• Support development and updates of block pattern library
• Train active vendor base garment technicians on fit, product construction, how to measure and standards manuals and implement certified factory garment technician program

Salesmen Sample to Production Buy Ready

• Final production ready fit and measurement tech pack: Maintain and update comments to meet production ready deadlines in conjunction w/Product Development and Materials teams. Ensure all tech packs are accurate and complete, following standard protocol as established by guidelines
• Review sales samples, jump-size-sets, pre-production samples to ensure product execution aligns with tech pack, fit block, product construction and quality standards and addresses any issues from prior comment sheets
• Troubleshoot potential production issues that may affect aesthetic and or execution
• Ensure final tech pack and approved samples are available to Quality team in preparation for pre-production and production protocols
• Support resourcing from original factory to new factory with transfer of pattern and samples to ensure consistency in product fit and construction

Daily Activities

• Maintain tracking and related record keeping, data input and in/out package coordination with product development
• Monitor production work in progress (WIP) and manage all reports / working files with vendors for technical development
• Facilitate timely communication with internal and external partners between US office, suppliers and manufacturers
• Perform other ad hoc duties as assigned

Requirements

• BS degree in Product Development / Fit Engineer / Technical Design / Pattern Making, or equivalent experience, with minimally 6 years of hands-on experience
• Experience working for a US global company with international offices working with factories throughout Asia
• Proficient in PLM, pattern software, data bases, 3D pattern software and MS Office applications
• Experience managing processes and leading projects
• Expert on synthetic and cotton active wear and outerwear fit and construction with ability to identify and correct fit issues
• Actively participate in corporate standards inclusive of garment and quality
• Must be deadline driven and have a pro-active and creative approach to problem solving
• Excellent organizational, communication, and follow-up
• Must be able to translate market right designs into cost effective garments while maintaining quality and design integrity of product
• Ability to handle multiple deadlines and tasks in a fast-paced environment. Strong sense of urgency and intuitive sense of priorities and accuracy
• Willing and able to travel extensively, often to foreign and/or remote locations
• Strong command of written and spoken English and Spanish is required

Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

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Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.