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NOSK CAREERWork in the garment industry

CAD / Marker Planner

Makes the markers that decide fabric cost — usually the single largest controllable cost in the garment.

Level
Entry level
Works in
CAD room, next to cutting
Department
Pattern, CAD & sampling
Directory organisations in
Bangladesh, France, Hong Kong SAR (plants in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Jordan), India
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The daily work

  • Plan markers by size ratio, fabric width and lay length for maximum efficiency.
  • Apply fabric-specific constraints: nap, one-way, stripe and check matching.
  • Issue cut orders and lay plans to the cutting room and track actual versus planned consumption.
  • Feed real marker efficiency back into costing so quotations stop drifting.

Skills employers screen for

  • One CAD marker system to a production standard
  • Consumption maths and marker efficiency calculation
  • Fabric width, shrinkage and defect allowance handling
  • Discipline with revision control — one wrong marker cuts thousands of garments wrong

Qualification

Apparel diploma or CAD certificate; strong numeracy is the real screening filter.

How to get in

  1. 1.Learn consumption calculation by hand before you touch the software.
  2. 2.Practise on a trial CAD licence and record before/after efficiency on the same size ratio.
  3. 3.Apply as CAD Operator; it is one of the most reliably open entry titles in large factories.

Organisations that employ this role

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