Menswear Technical Student Placement

7 months ago

South Shields, United Kingdom Barbour Full time

**Company Description**:
J. Barbour & Sons Ltd founded in 1894 is a British lifestyle brand, home to the iconic wax jacket we design, manufacture and market stylish functional clothing and footwear for men, women and children inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. We are the proud holder of Royal warrants, and remain true to our core values as a fifth-generation family business. Barbour is sold in over 40 countries worldwide, including Europe, the US and Japan but we have our headquarters and roots firmly located in the North East of England.

**Position Overview**

We are looking for a Student to join our Menswear Technical team in our South Shields Head Office. Throughout the 12-month placement, the successful applicant will work and learn alongside the Menswear Technical team, and gain imperative knowledge of the technical aspect of clothing construction.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To comply and help with inputting information for new seasons range into the system in order for the initial agent samples to be produced.
- Assist design/technical team in measuring all new proto samples & checking against approved size specification document.
- Strong communication skills are essential as you will have to be in constant contact with suppliers and internal departments within the business.
- Working to timelines, ensure given work responsibilities are delivered on time e.g. pre productions samples, production samples and fabric lengths.
- Assist design/technical team in fit sessions and sending the fit comments if required back to the suppliers. Taking minutes from meetings and distributing to relevant people.
- Assist and support when necessary the design team in presentations, meetings, mood boards and colour palettes (whether this is preparation, organising samples or presentation boards etc).
- Assist design with model outfits for photo shoots.
- Help with model dressing at product launch.
- To be confident in using Adobe illustrator and Adobe Photoshop and be able to assist designers and the technical team.
- General administration required e.g. sending courier packages and the tracking of inbound packages.
- Responsible for receiving, checking & booking in of development samples.
- Updating the product system with wash care, size charts & product info.
- Assist with collating product detail for seasonal brochures.
- Responsible for checking & approving barcodes, wash care details & trim cards.

**Skills and Experience**:

- Organised.
- Strong attention to detail
- Working knowledge of Microsoft business packages
- Strong communication skills.
- Proactive & flexible.
- Good time keeping.
- Working knowledge of Cad. Illustrator / Photo shop / Prezi

**Additional Information**:
**Benefits**:

- Staff discount
- Staff shop
- Free onsite parking
- Subsidised canteen
- 25 days holiday as standard (prorata’d to holiday year) plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing support
- Operate hybrid & flexible working
- 4pm finish on a Friday

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