Assistant Technologist - Garment

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 10%

25 days holiday + personal day

26 weeks maternity/adoption leave

6 weeks paternity leave

Virtual GP

EAP

Job summary

Tesco Garment team is seeking an Assistant Technologist within Quality and Sustainability. You will support the Technical Manager to ensure products meet the brief, Tesco policies, and customer expectations, while helping develop construction methods and improve sustainability.

You will monitor quality, feed data into the New Product Development plan, and assist with supplier audits and performance tracking to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience 1–2 years.
• Understanding of pattern construction.
• Understanding of fabric performance.
• Understanding of retail and customer needs.
• Excel knowledge.
• Word & PowerPoint knowledge.
• 3D CAD Software.
• Basic awareness of PLM Software.

Responsibilities

• Support Technical Manager and category to ensure products meet brief/specifications and Tesco policies.
• Develop consistent construction methods with Technical Manager.
• Help minimize cost to supply chain while ensuring quality controls.
• Monitor quality and customer feedback and implement action plans.
• Escalate and gather data to support incidents and enforcement in product area.
• Input product, benchmarking, process and improvement ideas into NPD plan.
• Contribute to Category Teams Strategy focusing on customer and supplier sourcing for sustainability.
• Support suppliers to meet audit requirements and drive improvement.

Skills

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

3D CAD

PLM

Pattern construction

Fabric performance

Retail knowledge

Fashion passion

Tools

3D CAD Software

PLM Software

Job description

About the role

We are on the lookout for an Assistant Technologist to join our Garment team here within our Quality and Sustainability function at Tesco. You will support to deliver safe, legal, responsibly sourced, quality products for the area always focusing on our customers and demonstrating value-led behaviour.

You will be responsible for

• Supporting my Technical Manager and commercial category to ensure that products meet the product brief/specification, Tesco rules & policies and customer expectations.
• Supporting my Technical manager in developing consistent construction methods.
• Working with my Technical Manager to minimize cost to the supply chain and product range, ensuring appropriate controls are in place for consistent quality of products and signing off products where appropriate.
• Monitoring all quality and customer feedback and implementing action plans to resolve issues raised and prevent them happening again.
• Escalating and gathering data to support Incident management and enforcement challenges in my product area.
• Inputting product, benchmarking, process and improvement ideas into the New Product Development plan.
• Input into Category Teams Strategy focusing on the customer, supplying data to identify the best suppliers and sources from a product , sustainability and ethical first initiative.
• Aware of technology to drive the business forward, reducing lead time, cost & improving sustainability, 3D, Digi-eye.
• Assisting to ensure my suppliers meet our audit requirements, ensuring they have action plans to drive improvement.
• Supporting my TM and category to monitor supplier and product performance, communicating trends to the team.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

• Relevant experience 1 - 2 years.
• Relevant qualification(s) in a related area.
• Understanding of pattern construction.
• Understanding of fabric performance.
• Understanding of retail and customer needs.
• Passion for fashion.
• Excel knowledge.
• Word & PowerPoint knowledge.
• 3D CAD Software.
• Basic awareness of PLM Software.

Whats in it for you?

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.

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