Assistant Garment Technologist

The Fold; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic fashion company in Greater London is seeking an Assistant Garment Technologist to help ensure product quality and assist with technical processes. The role involves managing daily tasks alongside the buying and production team, supporting quality control and ensuring timely sample deliveries. The ideal candidate should have strong technical knowledge, attention to detail, and effective communication skills. Benefits include generous holiday, a grocery savings scheme, and regular social events.

Benefits

25 days holidays including bank holidays

Buy additional holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension salary sacrifice scheme

Access to free Financial Advisors

Grocery scheme

50% off for friends and family

Enhanced maternity pay

Summer Friday hours

Eye care

Fully stocked snacks and beverages

Regular Social Events

Qualifications

• Assist in day-to-day tasks, prepare fit lists and support the team with measurements.
• Manage QC samples, measurements, and discrepancies.
• Upload data accurately each month and maintain sample archives.

Responsibilities

• Prepare weekly fit lists and manage supplies for fittings.
• Support QC processes and manage sample returns.
• Upload garment data and ensure accuracy in system attributes.

Skills

Technical knowledge

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

This role is key to the smooth day to day running of the product team. Based in the Garment Technology team, this role supports technical, buying, and production departments to help achieve product quality, accuracy, and timely delivery. Reporting to the Garment Technologist, the Assistant Garment Technologist works close in collaboration with Technical, Buying and Production team.

Responsibilities

Technical & Fitting

• Assist in the day-to-day tasks for the technical, buying and production team
• Prepare the weekly fit list, ensuring all samples are steamed and reference samples are available
• Support team with tech packs and measuring samples for fittings
• Monitor supplies for fittings and order when needed

Quality Control

• Support team managing QC samples, measure, check quality and send approval to the suppliers
• Manage the QC returns to the warehouse monthly

General Admin & Collaboration

• Upload all garment and care data to NetSuite for Ecommerce use monthly
• Update all attributes in the system (NetSuite), maintaining accuracy
• Attend copy briefings monthly
• Generate barcodes for the production team, sending to suppliers following the critical path
• Manage outbound and inbound post, ensuring customs paperwork is correct and all samples are logged according to SOPs
• Support the buying and design assistants in preparing the photoshoot rails, ensuring all samples are available and presentable
• Organise and maintain the archive rails, ensuring borrowed samples are returned
• Liaising across the business for sample requests, keeping track of any borrowed samples

Benefits and perks of working with The Fold

• 25 days holidays (including bank holidays)
• Buy additional holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension salary sacrifice scheme
• Access to free Financial Advisors
• Grocery scheme to help you save money
• A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Summer Friday hours
• Eye care
• Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
• Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties
• Volunteering

Our Culture

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team that loves what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business :

• Be Humbitious : Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
• Wrap it up with a bow on it : Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
• Be Empowered : Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
• Fold Gold Standard : Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
• Embrace, pace, progress and adventure : Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Diversity and Inclusion

We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.