Textile Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton • Lorton, VA

23h • $69,400 - $158,000

About The Position

Textile Engineer The Opportunity: As a Textile Engineer, you know that every successful clothing and footwear project relies on clearly defined processes and innovative approaches to achieving its goals. In this role, you’ll help address material challenges or digital transformation gaps in clothing and footwear, bringing your expertise in textile properties, testing, and industry standards to create innovative, high-quality solutions that meet rigorous performance and quality benchmarks. In this role, you’ll draw on your strong data analytics skills and knowledge of textile engineering and materials science to address the unique challenges of the DoW. You'll work closely with team members to gain quantitative insights from current processes, propose enhancements, and implement solutions to meet the demands of an evolving industry. This versatile role requires a balance of creativity, adaptability, and technical expertise to tackle challenges in organizational clothing and individual equipment. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience analyzing performance requirements for clothing, footwear, or individual equipment solutions
• Experience with textile testing standards, such as AATCC, ASTM, ISO, and SATRA
• Experience with fibers, yarns, fabrics, and garment construction
• Experience with data-informed analysis on government specification documents, such as Mil-Specs, Mil-Standards, Purchase Descriptions (PDs), and Commercial Item Descriptions (CIDs)
• Knowledge of sizing and fit, grading, block pattern development, apparel defects, quality assurance, quality control, and prototyping
• Ability to develop solutions within a collaborative and cross-functional team environment
• Secret Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Textile Engineering, Textile Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, or Engineering

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with digital transformation of domestic textile manufacturers and cut and sew facilities
• Experience leading engineering projects or workstreams
• Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Gerber Accumark, CLO3D, or Browzwear
• Knowledge of DoW acquisition processes and technology transition

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees