Garment Technologist

We are recruiting for a Garment Technologist with experience in Knitwear or Jersey to join an established and fast paced business in Leicester supplying to a mix of leading high street brands.

 The ideal candidate will have experience working with Knitwear, they will be confident and proactive with a strong work ethic. The Garment Technologist will report into the Managing Director, they will be able to work efficiently under pressure and have excellent organisational skills.

Garment Technologist – The Role

• Proactively resolving any issues with fit
• Understanding how different structures affect fit
• Retaining a chronological log of all fit comments and changes with images
• Confidently liaising with customers on a daily basis
• Liaising with Knitwear programmers and advising on alterations
• Ensuring production is as per sealer
• Creating and sending PowerPoint presentations of new styles to customers
• Attending fit sessions
• Ensuring production samples reach customers in line with the critical path
• Critical path management, ensuring fit comments are processed and chased in accordance with the critical path
• Liaising with customer garment techs to clarify comments and advise what is achievable
• Managing samples from development stage through to production samples and approval
• Tracking customer development and monitoring conversion ratio
• Creating and grading specs and uploading onto customer portals
• Pushing out delivery dates if the customer has not provided comments within the correct time frame
• Liaising with knitwear programmers and providing feedback on fit alterations to garments
• Providing measurements for customer inspo images

Garment Technologist – The Person

• Previous experience as a Garment Technologist is required, preferably with experience working with Knitwear.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Competent using a computer
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• A positive can-do attitude
• Cutting skills (preferable but not essential)
• Confident liaising with different teams
• Ability to work well under pressure and to targets
• Overlocking skills (preferable but not essential)

This is a full time role based in the office 5 days a week from Monday – Friday, working hours are 8am – 5pm.

This is a great opportunity that does not want to be missed. Please send your CV to s.woodward@peoplemarketing.co.uk

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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