Garment Technologist

Reiss Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Company Pension

Generous Employee Discount

Company Bonus Scheme

Health & Wellbeing Perks

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Garment Technologist, specializing in casual bottoms and denim. This role involves ensuring consistent fit and quality across the Womenswear collection, collaborating with designers and suppliers, and actively seeking feedback from store visits. You'll play a crucial role in enhancing product standards and customer satisfaction while enjoying a competitive salary and generous employee benefits. If you are passionate about garment technology and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience as Garment Technologist in casual bottoms and denim is essential.
• Strong understanding of garment construction and fitting required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure design suits production methods across multiple categories.
• Approve sample garments and write detailed tech comments for suppliers.
• Conduct store visits and assess product feedback from staff.

Skills

Garment Technologist Experience

Garment Construction Knowledge

Pattern Cutting Skills

Fitting and Grading Knowledge

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Technical Requirement Communication

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

What’s the role about?

As part of our Womenswear Production & Technical department, you’ll be joining as our Garment Technologist who is responsible for casual bottoms and denim product category, ensuring a consistent fit throughout the collection, monitoring and elevating garment quality and constantly evaluating and improving the fit of garment.

Who you are

• Previous experience operating as Garment Technologist in casual bottoms and denim
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of garment construction, pattern cutting, fitting, and grading
• Understanding of testing, analysing test reports and garment care
• Ability to demonstrate confidence and assertiveness when communicating technical requirements, both internally and externally
• Well organized, able to work to tight deadlines and excellent communication skills- written and oral
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel

What you’ll be doing

• Working with designers/buying to make sure the design suits production methods across multi product categories
• Checking and approving sample garments and making any changes needed, including correcting faults
• Writing detailed tech comments for suppliers/factories to follow
• Control and maintain consistency of product categories across the Womenswear collection, carry out regular block and sizing reviews with all relevant teams, wherever necessary
• Control and maintain consistent fit across product, take on board feedback back from return meetings to improve overall return rates
• Conducting store visits to assess product in store and to speak to store staff to get feedback on product
• Conducting comp shops and benchmarking our Reiss product against competitors
• Approving test reports for wash care instructions, challenging suppliers to help improvements
• Communicating with suppliers on production queries or issues
• Attending risk assessments/fabric meetings

What we’ll do for you

• Provide you with a competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous employee discount
• Company bonus scheme
• Health & Wellbeing Perks
• Plus many more

If you want to start your story at Reiss as our Garment Technologist, don’t miss out - apply now!

#WeAreReiss

We recognize the importance and power of diversity within our business and, as such, we ensure that our people processes are fair, transparent and promote equality of opportunity for all candidates.

It is our pledge that candidates will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, race, color, ethnic background, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, religious or similar belief. Every individual will be treated with respect.

We know that some people won’t apply for a role unless they feel they meet all of the requirements listed. We want you to know that finding people who will add to our inspirational culture and have a learning mindset is incredibly important to us. Even if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes, we’d still like to hear from you.