Patternmaker Grader
CA$82,000 – CA$113,000 / yr base salary
Posted 3 Jun 2026
Advertised as “Patternmaker Grader 2”
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- Level
- 2
- Expected experience
- 3+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | CA$82,000 – CA$113,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyDesign, Patternmaking
Study levelCertificate or higher
Company: Arc’teryx Equipment
Office address: 100 – 2155 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC V7H 3B2
110-2220 Dollarton Highway, North Vancouver, BC V7H 1A8
Location: North Vancouver, BC
Salary Range: $92,115 ($82,000 - $113,000)
Benefits: Annual Incentive Plan, extended medical and dental, RRSP Matching, 3 weeks paid time off
Language: English
Term: 40 hours per week, permanent, full-time employment
Contact: birdwatchers@arcteryx.com
Department: Supply Chain
Reports to: Senior Manager, Pattern Grading
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Patternmaker Grader 2, you will be responsible for transitioning patterns from development to production and producing accurate graded production patterns. You will have the opportunity to work on multiple calendars and product categories in a fast-paced environment, and your cross-functional partnership with Designers, Sample Sewers, Product Developers, and Factory partners will ensure our sized products maintain design integrity.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver design center and is expected to be performed on-location.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Pattern Grading Team transitions patterns from development to production and produces accurate graded production patterns. Through collaboration and partnership with our internal product development teams and our external factory partners, the team is responsible for ensuring our final sized products maintain integrity of design, function and production accuracy developed on the base size.
If you were the Patternmaker Grader 2 now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Interpreting design intent to create prototype, sample and production patterns, ensuring that methods and documentation are consistent with known factory methods and processes
- Grading production patterns, ensuring that all grading of like products and documentation are consistent and completed following development and production schedules
- Ensuring that grading formulas on all finished garment measurement specifications and templates are accurate and reproducible in garment form
- Participating in graded size run checks to ensure grading maintains integrity of design, function and production accuracy developed on the base size