Wardrobe Assistant

**Description**:
**About The Role**

We’re looking for passionate people to join our Entertainments Team at Skegness

Working alongside a fantastic team, we will support you every step of the way to ensure you gain the skills and confidence to truly get stuck in.

The purpose of the role is:

- Facilitate costume requirements for all in house, character and touring productions including pre-production, running and post-production.
- Attend and carry out costume fittings with the wardrobe manager.
- Maintain, alter and make costumes as well as wigs and props when required.
- Assist cast both male and female with their costumes and quick changes.
- Setting of costumes in dressing rooms and backstage areas.
- Attend technical, dress and understudy rehearsals and keep a detailed dressing plot, that the wardrobe manager can keep on file should another team member need them.
- Laundry and ironing calls to be completed in a timely manner.
- Recognise where maintenance of costumes is required always keeping the wardrobe manager informed.
- Undertake training where required.
- Ensure all equipment and costumes are left in a safe and secure environment.
- General knowledge of health and safety policy in the workplace.
- Supporting the uniform requirements of the entertainments team including the issuing, laundry and maintenance of the Redcoats.

**About You**:

- Some form of formal training in wardrobe or costume Foundation, Diploma or BA hons Degree.
- Flexible approach to working including evenings and weekends (full time 40 hours per week).
- Excellent sewing skills both by hand and machine, demonstrated through a portfolio of previous work either professional or personal.
- Concise fabric knowledge and how to launder.
- A professional approach to working with both men and women in varying states of dress.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- The ability to work as part of a team and as an individual.
- The ability to work well under pressure.

**About Butlin's**:
At Butlin’s, we’re all about fun, excitement, and adventure by the bucketload For over 80 years we’ve been delighting hundreds of thousands of guests each year, whether on a non-stop action family break or our epic Adult only Big Weekenders.

Ask any of our team, past and present, and one of the best things they’ll say about working at Butlin’s is our culture We’re all about providing our guests with an Altogether More Entertaining and Fun Break, brought to life through our three mighty values.

So, if you want a role where you Create Smiles, where you aren’t afraid to Get Stuck In and where the team genuinely Cares For Each Other - this could be the perfect fit for you.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Butlin’s