CAD / Marker Planner Entry level
Makes the markers that decide fabric cost — usually the single largest controllable cost in the garment.
CAD / Marker Planner — what the job really is
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Works in: CAD room, next to cutting
What you actually do
- 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 & experience
Apparel diploma or CAD certificate; strong numeracy is the real screening filter.
How to get in — the realistic route
- 1. Learn consumption calculation by hand before you touch the software.
- 2. Practise on a trial CAD licence and record before/after efficiency on the same size ratio.
- 3. Apply as CAD Operator; it is one of the most reliably open entry titles in large factories.
Free study to finish first
Organisations that employ this role
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Lectra
Paris · France
CAD pattern making, marker making and automated cutting
- Address
- 16-18 rue Chalgrin, 75016 Paris, France
- Phone
- +33 1 53 64 42 00
Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru · India
India's largest apparel exporter — knits, wovens and fabric processing
- Address
- Bellandur Gate, Sarjapur Main Road, Bangalore 560 102, Karnataka, India
Arvind Limited
Ahmedabad · India
Denim, woven shirting and garment manufacturing
- Address
- Naroda Road, Ahmedabad 382 345, Gujarat, India
- Phone
- +91 79 6826 8000
- investor@arvind.in
Pacific Jeans Ltd
Chattogram · Bangladesh
Premium denim jeans manufacturing and export from Chattogram EPZ
- Address
- Plot 14-19, Sector 5, CEPZ, Chattogram 4223, Bangladesh
- Phone
- +880 31 741006
Epic Group
Hong Kong · Hong Kong SAR (plants in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Jordan)
Multi-country apparel manufacturer and sourcing group
DBL Group
Dhaka · Bangladesh
Vertically integrated knitwear manufacturing, spinning, dyeing and printing
- Address
- South Avenue Tower, House 50 (6th Floor), Road 3, Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Free explainers that teach this role
Photo and diagram walk-throughs covering the fabric, pattern, machinery and quality knowledge this job is built on — free, no sign-up.
Patterns · Free
Marker efficiency: where fabric cost is really decided
How marker planning, spreading and ply management move consumption by several percent — and what that means per order.
Fabrics · Free
Woven vs knit: how fabric construction changes everything
Warp and weft versus loops and courses — why the same fibre behaves completely differently once it is woven or knitted.
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