Garment Technologist

A great role for an outdoor enthusiast

**Job Purpose**:
Reporting to the Technical Manager, the Garment Technologist is responsible for developing and executing premium quality products on time, ensuring maximised profit margins, in line with agreed strategy for each product segment. The Garment Technologist acts as a primary liaison between the brand and product (apparel and/or accessories) suppliers to ensure that products key features and specifications are understood and executable.

The Garment Technologist provides apparel engineering and manufacturing expertise to the design team in order to ensure potential garment defects are identified and prevented at an early stage.

The Garment Technologist will work closely with the design team to ensure that expected quality standards are upheld from concept throughout production. Working to exceed the quality expectations of the customer is the key goal of your role.

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:
**Product Quality**
- To deliver products that reflects the brand's values of easy care, lightweight, packable, protective and versatile.
- Responsible for ensuring the highest product quality for assigned product segment

**Product Risk Assessment**
- Provide Technical assistance to the internal teams.
- Perform risk analysis at the handover stage to ensure any potential risks are identified and remedied or avoided at an early stage

**Product Development**:

- Collaborate with Design team to ensure styling and aesthetic objectives align with performance, quality, and cost objectives.
- Ensure that BOMs have complete and accurate information, clearly specified measurements and comments for all products.

**Supplier Management**
- Act as the primary liaison between the brand and the Suppliers to ensure that all related development and technical issues are understood and executable.
- Ensure that suppliers have clear information and specs that allow them to deliver products that meet the brand's requirements for function, performance, quality and aesthetics.

**Process Management**:

- The timely management of prototyping, testing and product reviews to a critical path, ensuring all products and ranges are launched on time.
- Ensure that suppliers are aware of the critical path dates so that prototypes are delivered according to the seasonal calendar

**Product Fit and Sizing**
- To technically develop products from initial prototype to production completion, including measuring garments, fitting and testing samples.
- Responsible for creating and updating detailed measurement charts for your product segment.

**Product Cost**
- Advise the most practical and cost-effective method of product workmanship whilst maintaining the quality and appearance of the design.
- Support the design team with technical guidance in reducing costs throughout the prototyping approval process.

**Product Workmanship**
- Ensure that manufacturing standards are the most appropriate and that construction methods are used according to the products’ intended end use.
- Establish the manufacturing standards through the prototype approval processes.

**Skills and experience**
- A qualification in têxtiles, fashion or a related technical role is required
- Previous experience in a similar position is essential for this role
- A love of the outdoors and knowledge of technical clothing would be a distinct advantage

Full job spec available on request