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Upholstery Technician - Textile Design Engineer

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Koala

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Job Description:

To support Koala’s core category - upholstery success in coming years, specifically on upholstery textile/cover innovation, working with Koala designer/product management/quality and our suppliers closely, improve product efficiency and customer experience, and contribute innovation to the upholstery category.

Job Responsibility:

  • Take leading technical responsibility roles for assigned projects on upholstery textile/cover, and homeware, including material selection and specification, textile construction design & validation and with production friendly in consideration
  • Responsible for making product documentation & specification on upholstery textile/cover and homeware products for suppliers to follow in production
  • Work closely with Designer, resolve textile/cover part design to ensure optimal user experience while constantly pushing to minimize part complexity and cost
  • Responsible for upholstery textile/cover and homeware products engineering solution improvement opportunities and implementation
  • Understand legal requirements (and relevant standards) and ensure textile product compliance
  • Work closely with the Package team, contribute to upholstery textile and homeware products’ packaging solutions
  • Work with Quality responsible, to develop and implement in-house testing capability including lifecycle and other performance testing for upholstery textile/cover
  • Work with Product Managers/Developers to communicate the technical agenda with suppliers and other development partners on upholstery textile/cover and homeware products
  • Supporting Innovation Director in technical problems solving on upholstery textile/cover and homeware products
  • Supporting Innovation Director on communicating effectively with key stakeholders including expressing the rationale of upholstery textile/cover and homeware products design and new design decisions, sourcing required information (internally and externally) as well as identifying, escalating and resolving issues arising from the design process
  • Work closely with Designer and Product managers/Developers to secure the assigned product development project success on time

Requirements:

  • 3 to 5 years’ experience in a Textile Engineering, Garment Technologist, Product Engineering or similar technical role within a high volume manufacturing environment
  • Degree in Textile Engineering, Apparel Technology, Product Engineering or a related technical discipline
  • Strong grounding in material science, textile construction, garment assembly and industrial sewing methods
  • Advanced knowledge of Adobe Illustrator for technical drawings and specification packs
  • Strong pattern making and sewing or construction capability, with hands on understanding of how textile components are assembled for production
  • Experience resolving designs to a production ready standard, particularly for upholstery textiles, covers or soft goods assemblies
  • Confident creating detailed drawings, technical specifications and QC or QA documentation, including tolerances for bulk production
  • Experience working through fabrication methods to ensure components can be manufactured consistently at scale
  • Exposure to factory collaboration, sampling, bulk approvals and production troubleshooting in a high volume environment
  • Experience developing practical solutions to technical challenges that arise during product development and concept generation
  • Development and production of prototypes to test specific component performance and overall product performance
  • Experience designing and producing jigs and fixtures for ad hoc or lifecycle testing
  • Understanding of performance testing for upholstery textiles and textile assemblies
What we offer:
  • Hybrid working - ~3 days back in the Alexandria Treehouse (office) and work from bed/home (WFB)
  • Generous time off - volunteer, parental, Koala life leave and more
  • Fully stocked kitchen with an emphasis on healthy local produce, think bougie brekky, salad bar, kombucha on tap, monthly barbies and more
  • Pet-friendly - The Koala Treehouse is as pet-friendly as they get
  • Free Koala products with ‘mates rates’ for your friends and fam
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program, which includes unlimited sessions for financial, work, relationship, family or wellbeing support
  • Accelerate your career - via our Learning Management platform Juno, as well as individual and team growth budgets and dedicated days
  • Community & connection - BCorp Certified, WWF Partnership, volunteer days, a member of SoftLanding, 1% and so much more

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 13, 2026

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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