Garment Technologist - Womenswear
People Marketing Fashion Recruitment
- North West London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- Proven experience within a similar garment technologist position (min. 5 years). Background in supplier environment is preferred.
- Experience of multicategory womenswear apparel; woven & jersey.
- 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. 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. Self motivated, someone who thrives on responsibility.
- An effective problem solver who can work on own initiative and as a valued team player.
- Ability to travel in the UK and Offshore to attending customer meetings and factory visits (as and when required).
- Proficient in MS Office.
- Applicants must have full Right to Work in the UK and be based within reasonable commute of London office.