Uniforms Technical Specialist

Qatar Airways Group; Doha; On-site; QAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Qatar Airways Group seeks a senior technical garments leader to drive block development, fit accuracy, and pattern engineering across multiple categories. You will manage Product Developers and Quality Controllers, ensuring QA across supplier base and embedding a robust QMS.

Strong leadership, advanced garment construction, and pattern expertise are essential. The role demands overseeing grading, pattern development (manual and digital), and creating detailed technical packs.

Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Garment Technology, Fashion Design, Textile Engineering, or related field with 4 years relevant experience.
• Proven leadership in multi-product environments and technical team management.
• Experience working in a buying house or sourcing office is highly desirable.
• Advanced knowledge of garment construction, pattern cutting, grading, and fit analysis.
• Expertise in block development and managing fit across diverse product categories.
• Strong pattern making skills, both manual and digital

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve master blocks across product categories, ensuring consistency with brand fit standards and grading logic.
• Apply advanced fitting solutions to address complex fit challenges across gender, body types, and garment categories.
• Maintain fit integrity across size ranges, ensuring garments meet both aesthetic and functional requirements.
• Oversee grading rules and increments across all product types, ensuring alignment with brand sizing strategy.
• Provide expert-level pattern making guidance, including manual and digital development, adjustments, and corrections.
• Oversee the creation of detailed technical packs, including measurements, construction details, BOMs, and finishing standards.
• Ensure suppliers receive clear, actionable instructions and understand garment requirements.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action planning for recurring quality issues.
• Manage and mentor a team of Product Developers and Quality Controllers, overseeing their workload, development, and technical output.
• Provide training and guidance on fit analysis, block development, pattern corrections, and quality control protocols.

Skills

Block development

Pattern engineering

Quality management

Team leadership

Garment construction

Fitting analysis

Pattern cutting

Grading

Education

Degree in Garment Technology / Fashion Design / Textile Engineering

Tools

CAD

Pattern CAD

Job description

In this role, you will be required to lead the technical development of garments across multiple categories, with a strong focus on block development, fit accuracy, construction quality, and pattern engineering.

This role also manages a team of Product Developers and Quality Controllers, ensuring consistent technical execution and quality assurance across the supplier base.

Responsibilities:

As part of your role, your responsibilities will be inclusive of, but not limited to the following:

• Own and evolve master blocks across product categories, ensuring consistency with brand fit standards and grading logic.
• Apply advanced fitting solutions to address complex fit challenges across gender, body types, and garment categories.
• Maintain fit integrity across size ranges, ensuring garments meet both aesthetic and functional requirements.
• Oversee grading rules and increments across all product types, ensuring alignment with brand sizing strategy.
• Provide expert-level pattern making guidance, including manual and digital development, adjustments, and corrections.
• Oversee the creation of detailed technical packs, including measurements, construction details, BOMs, and finishing standards.
• Ensure suppliers receive clear, actionable instructions and understand garment requirements.
• Support the Manager Uniforms in embedding a robust Quality Management System (QMS) across the technical and quality functions..
• Review and interpret fabric and garment test reports, ensuring materials and finished products meet performance and safety requirements.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective action planning for recurring quality issues.
• Manage and mentor a team of Product Developers and Quality Controllers, overseeing their workload, development, and technical output.
• Provide training and guidance on fit analysis, block development, pattern corrections, and quality control protocols.

Be part of an extraordinary story:

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible.

Qualification

About you:

• Degree/Diploma in Garment Technology, Fashion Design, Textile Engineering, or related field with 4 years relevant experience.
• Proven leadership in multi-product environments and technical team management.
• Experience working in a buying house or sourcing office is highly desirable.
• Advanced knowledge of garment construction, pattern cutting, grading, and fit analysis.
• Expertise in block development and managing fit across diverse product categories.
• Strong pattern making skills, both manual and digital

About Qatar Airways Group:

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

So, whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.