Garment & Quality Technologist

2 weeks ago

Greater London, United Kingdom Victoria Beckham Full time

Role: Garment & Quality Technologist (Tailoring)

Reporting to: Technical Manager

Location: Hammersmith, London


Overview: Victoria Beckham Limited is recruiting a Garment & Quality Technologist with experience and expertise in tailoring. This role sits within the Production department and is responsible for industrialising all products, ensuring brand quality standard of both woven and fully factored products.


Main Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a primary category contact for manufacturers during pre-production and production for fit, construction and quality.
  • Ensure that quality and performance standards are understood, met and kept consistent across manufacturers and product ranges.
  • Create detailed technical pack specifications for factories to following during pre-production and production, to ensure garments conform to required aesthetic, construction, and finishing.
  • Log in garment and required target measurements within tech packs at all stages of the garment (SMS, PPS, BULK) and maintain grading/sizing rules, to ensure garments adhere to requested fit and production standards.
  • Attend all fit meetings and document concise SMS handover, PPS and Size set comments.
  • Communicate detailed fit, quality and construction comments and requirements to suppliers.
  • Work closely with the Design, Atelier, Development and Production teams to ensure products are risk assessed in a timely manner.
  • Ensure seasonal Critical path dates are respected and immediately flag delays.
  • Log daily progress in seasonal Critical path and update with any changes to styles throughout pre-production
  • Ensure that products comply with legal requirements.
  • Checking CRS performance standards are met by monitoring all reports and raise issues from SEDEX reports with Tech Manager in order to ensure VBL is compliant with legal requirements.
  • Conduct product reviews in line with competitors fit and quality standards.
  • Support the Technical manager and contribute with developing ways of working within the Tech team, to support the business in more efficient processes.
  • Communicate fluidly, transparently and collaborate with ease.
  • Motivate and promote development of junior members within team.
  • Responsible for daily management of work placement students within the Technical team for docket building, measuring and tech team admin
  • Being aware of department/seasonal budgets for technical department.


Pre-Production Sampling:

  • Create detailed technical packs, with accurate measurement and manufacturing specifications for all CMT and fully factored product.
  • Check pattern, costing sheet, production notes and development samples for CMT product.
  • Liaise daily with the Gerber Pattern Cutters to communicate alterations, construction requirements and flag pattern discrepancies.
  • Prepare all relevant spec work for special processes (pleating/print lay-plans etc.)
  • Measure development samples, annotate discrepancies and prepare them for factory reference.
  • Ensure dockets and patterns are completed ahead of pre-production launch.
  • Flagging, communicating, and documenting any discrepancies/changes to Product Costings.


Pre-Production Fittings:

  • Measure all Pre-Production samples from factory before fittings.
  • Concisely present all measurement and manufacturing discrepancies to the team during fits.
  • Record fit notes concisely during each fit session, making them accessible to the team.
  • Assess PPS manufacturing discrepancies/issues to propose better solutions for bulk.
  • Conduct thorough analysis of PPS for fit, construction, measurements, and grading approval.


Production Handover:

  • Generate detailed PPS comments and finalize tech packs for production handover within critical path deadlines.
  • Update final measurements and manufacturing specification sheets to issue for production.
  • Update all relevant paperwork for special processes (pleating/print lay-plans etc.)
  • Follow up with factories to ensure comments are clear.
  • Flag any potential issues with factories and Technical Manager/ Production Manager and request TOP samples to factories on high risk/quantity styles.


Quality Control:

  • Conduct quality control on size sets in line with delivery deadlines for CMT and Fully factored product across all collection.
  • Set up and complete QC reports to document sizing and quality assessment of product.
  • Resolve any issues that may occur during bulk production, always ensuring that product standards are maintained.
  • Urgently flag to Technical and Production Manager if product is not compliant with set standards.
  • Advise on specific packaging requirements and labelling placement when necessary.
  • Check whether packaging, care label, disclaimers have been followed by factories on size sets.
  • Build relationships with manufacturers with on-site visits and work with them to benefit the overall finish of brand product.
  • Work closely with the Tech Manager to organize visits to UK and European factories in line with ex-factory dates.
  • Oversee RTV’s received from Sales/E-comm/ Client services and proactively assess and resolve queries.


Essential Skills & Requirements:

  • Minimum of 10 years of Garment Technology experience with a heavy focus on tailoring.
  • Bachelor/ Masters Degree (or equivalent qualification) in Garment Technology/ Pattern Cutting or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Good knowledge of garment construction methods and manufacturing sewing operations, including pattern making, grading and marking processes.
  • A working knowledge of materials, technical fabrics and functional aspects of garments.
  • Strong organisational skills to provide well documented products, thorough specifications and meet deadlines.
  • Experience working with factories overseas and an understanding of constraints and timescales.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with suppliers and agents.
  • Ability to anticipate technical problems, and to plan and implement corrective action plan.
  • Ability and enthusiasm to grow and adapt within a fast-growing business.
  • Ability to work under pressure to meet key deadlines.
  • An understanding and appreciation for luxury apparel.


Our mission is to welcome everyone and create an inclusive workforce. We celebrate difference and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work. Our decisions respect all people regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, age, social or political belief, or world view.


Considering the overwhelming response to our current job openings, we wish to inform all potential applicants that positions may close without prior notice due to high demand. To ensure fair consideration and to avoid any disappointment, we strongly encourage interested individuals to submit their applications at the earliest opportunity.

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