Junior Garment Technologist
Location
Central London | United Kingdom
Job description
Our client is a long established global supplier, recruiting for a Junior Garment Technologist. You will be part of a busy Menswear Technical Team with responsibility for ensuring the quality and fit of samples to production handover. Working across multi category wovens and jerseywear for fashion retailers and brands, and with access to own manufacturing and 3rd party factories.
Junior Garment Technologist - The Role:
- Attend regular meetings with sales, design & product development and customers to understand development needs and effectively put into work any new samples required.
- Attend and manage fit meetings, relay comments to customers & factories.
- Handle all submissions and approvals, lap dips, test reports.
- Produce clear and detailed technical specifications, and prepare technical packs for factories, problem solve and handle production issues.
- Ensure all technical information is kept up to date & any necessary alterations are made following sample reviews internally or by customers.
- Monitor samples through the making process using the critical path to ensure that they meet deadline dates, are to a high quality standard and meet all required specifications.
- Manage fit meetings with the customer and report fit comments back to the factories.
- Occasional travel to the offshore factories to assess products at Pre production and Production AQL stages and also customer visits.
Junior Garment Technologist - Candidate Requirements:
- Experience within supplier garment technical/technologist role.
- Proven track record in establishing and maintaining quality and fit standards with factories.
- Excellent hands on experience of the fit process through to final production sample.
- Previous experience of working on menswear apparel would be desirable.
- A confident, enthusiastic, proactive individual with strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to interact effectively at all levels from factory workers to senior management.
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Self motivated, someone who thrives on responsibility.
- A problem solver who can work on own initiative but also a team player
- Ability to travel (UK and offshore) as required ie. customer meetings and factory visits.
We regret that due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our vacancies, if you do not hear from one of our consultants within 5 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.
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