Technical Designer

Description

Technical Designer (Upholstery / Pattern Development)
Sparks, NV | Full-Time | $21.64 - $28.85/hr

Via Seating is looking for an experienced Technical Designer to join our team!

If you have a strong background in pattern making, upholstery, or technical design-and enjoy turning concepts into precise, production-ready outputs-this is a great opportunity to make a direct impact in a hands-on manufacturing environment.

What You'll Do

• Create and maintain master patterns and layouts for upholstered office seating

• Develop marker cut files to support production orders

• Improve cutting and sewing processes for efficiency and quality

• Support production through training, standard work, and process improvements

• Manage and maintain cut file data for accuracy and consistency

• Collaborate closely with production teams to ensure designs translate smoothly to the floor

What You Bring

• Experience in upholstery pattern making, technical design, or related field

• Strong understanding of cutting, sewing, and production processes

• Ability to translate designs into accurate, production-ready patterns

• Attention to detail and commitment to quality

• Experience with marker making or cut file systems preferred

Pay & Schedule
• $21.64 - $28.85/hour starting pay (DOE)

• Monday - Friday, regular business hours

• Full-time, in-office position

Why Via Seating?

• Hands-on role with direct impact on production quality

• Collaborative, team-focused environment

• Opportunity to improve processes-not just maintain them

• Stable, full-time schedule

If you're someone who takes pride in precision, craftsmanship, and improving how products are made-we'd love to connect.

Benefits

Via offers a very generous benefits package including:

• Comprehensive Package effective 1st of the month following hire date including:
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits - 3 plans available. Via provides a generous stipend helping to cover cost of employees, spouse and/or dependents premiums on all plans.
  • Company Paid Life/ADD
  • Voluntary Life/ADD
  • Voluntary Long-Term Disability
  • Voluntary Short-Term Disability
  • Voluntary Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical and/or Dependent Care
  • Voluntary Identity and Legal Protections
• Additional Benefits Offered:
• 10 Paid Holidays per year starting immediately upon hire
• 15 Days of Paid Time Off annually after 90 days; increases after every five year increment of employment
• 401K Participation with up to a 4% company match after 90 days
• Prescription Safety Glasses Paid for by Via After 90 days
• Referral Bonuses of up to $1,000 per hired employee (eligibility requirements applicable)
• Quarterly Bonuses based on Team Goals
• Anniversary Bonuses
• Bi-Annual Company Celebrations
• Contests and Cash Giveaways throughout the year
  • Safety Bingo with prizes ranging from $50 - $300
• Discover our love for great seating. Join us in making great things happen in a chair!
• At Via Seating, we are builders, kitters, sewers, developers and engineers - inspired by the chair. We believe great things should happen in that chair. In America, the average person is sitting a total of 13 hours a day. That's 4,745 hours a year. That's a lot of hours. A lot of hours that should be filled by great things. Great things needing a great chair.
  
  With this in mind, our teams research, brainstorm and develop. We build, test and improve. Together, we drive our thoughts, our creativity and our hearts into making a quality, lasting, durable and captivating, great chair. In fact, we're so invested in it, we've been doing it for over thirty years. It's no wonder our passion for seating is so contagious.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, Gender/Minority/Veterans/Disabled. Via Seating is a drug and alcohol-free workplace.

Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Discover our love for great seating. Join us in making great things happen in a chair!