Dyeing Technician (China-Based)

About Trafilea

Trafilea is a Consumer Tech Platform for Transformative Brand Growth. We’re building the AI Growth Engine that powers the next generation of consumer brands.

With over $1B+ in cumulative revenue, 12M+ customers, and 500+ talents across 19 countries, we combine technology, growth marketing, and operational excellence to scale purpose-driven, digitally native brands.

We own and operate our own digitally native brands (not an agency), with presence in Walmart, Nordstrom, and Amazon, and a strong global D2C footprint.

Why Trafilea

We’re a tech-led eCommerce group scaling our own globally loved DTC brands, while helping ambitious talent grow just as fast.

🚀 We build and scale our own brands.

🦾 We invest in AI and automation like few others in eCom.

📈 We test fast, grow fast, and help you do the same.

🤝 Be part of a dynamic, diverse, and talented global team.

🌍 100% Remote, USD competitive salary, paid time off, and more.

Key Responsibilities

Your mission: to turn color science and process control into customer satisfaction — ensuring every batch looks right, feels right, and performs flawlessly. You’ll travel across partner factories, audit dyeing operations, standardize methods, and build reliability into every lot produced.

• Oversee bulk dyeing operations across partner factories — ensuring recipes, liquor ratios, and temperature profiles are consistently executed.

• Audit and optimize dyeing lines for compression, elasticity, and color accuracy, ensuring each lot meets Trafilea’s exact standards.

• Lead root cause analyses (5-Why, Fishbone) on shade drift, crocking, migration, or compression loss; drive corrective actions to closure.

• Develop and implement critical control limits (CCLs) and “stop-the-line” procedures to prevent off-spec production.

• Approve lab dips and bulk shades using spectrophotometric and visual methods (ΔE standards).

• Maintain shade libraries and control systems to minimize re-dyes and shade variability.

• Partner closely with Quality Control, Product Development, and Production to translate lab intent into scalable, consistent factory execution.

• Monitor and report key dyeing KPIs — including re-dye rates, compression pass %, and shade accuracy — through Asana and shared dashboards.

• Coach factory technicians on best practices, driving continuous improvement and operational discipline.

• Ensure that new vendors onboard to Trafilea’s dyeing and finishing standards within their first production orders.

• 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in apparel dyeing, with expertise in knits, warp/weft, and compression fabrics.

• Proficiency with spectrophotometry (ΔE methods), color evaluation, and shade band usage.

• Strong understanding of compression and stretch recovery testing (ISO 20932 or equivalent).

• Demonstrated ability to lead root cause analysis and implement CAPA on the factory floor.

• Comfortable traveling 50–70% of the time across partner facilities.

• Fluent in Mandarin and working English.

• Tools: Google Suite, Asana (or similar task management tools), handheld QC devices.

• (Nice to have) Degree in Textile Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Color Science.

• (Nice to have) Familiarity with ISO 105 colorfastness and finishing processes impacting compression.