Join the Alpkit Team as a Clothing Design Assistant! 

Location: Alpkit HQ Campus, NG16 3SU

Are you passionate about outdoor sports and eager to dive into the world of technical garment design? Do you have a keen eye for detail, love the thrill of creative problem-solving, and want to be part of a company that values sustainability and adventure? Look no further! Alpkit is seeking a Clothing Design Assistant to join our dynamic team. This is your chance to grow, learn, and contribute to creating high-quality, sustainable outdoor apparel.

What You'll Do:

Collaborate & Support: Work closely with our clothing product team to bring together individual work-streams, ensuring the seamless development, production, and delivery of our products.

Work to company critical path deadlines to ensure samples arrive on time and produce detailed and accurate design and material specifications.

Tech Packs & Specifications: Prepare and maintain seasonally accurate tech pack documents for every product. This includes detailed design sketches, material part lists, measurement charts, key sewing instructions, care/content details, packaging info, and more.

Product Development: Critique proto and pre-production samples against tech pack specifications for fit, sewing quality, design accuracy, and functionality.

Cross-Functional Partnerships: Engage with our Head of Product, Buying, and Marketing teams to ensure the smooth execution of product development, from initial range briefs to staff training to final consumer communication.

Key Skills & Knowledge:

Organised & Detail-Oriented: You thrive on structure and precision, ensuring every detail is accounted for.

Tech-Savvy: Proficient in Word, Excel, Mac-based apps, and Adobe Illustrator. Experience with PDM or related tech pack systems is a plus.

Industry Insight: Understanding of the outdoor sports markets and trends, with a keen awareness of apparel and technical accessory manufacturing.

 Communication: Fluent in written and spoken English, able to convey technical information clearly and effectively.

Outdoor Enthusiast: A personal passion for outdoor sports and activities.

Personal Attributes:

• Assertive and tenacious
• Self-starter and problem solver
• Enthusiastic with a fresh mindset
• Culturally aware and able to communicate in diverse environments
• Committed to deadlines and able to travel for sourcing and research trips

What You'll Learn:

Your future career with us is important whether we grow old together or this is just a stepping stone to something else. A willing candidate could easily move in to garment tech, product development or production. If you an aspirant designer this would be a great grounding into the nuts and bolts of the technical garment industry.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year of related industry experience or relevant project degree work
• Technical training or factory experience in apparel/accessories product design/development
• Active participation in outdoor sports (preferred)

Your day to day might include:

• Lab dip requests, chasing, approvals
• Fabric library / tech sheet / material impact maintenance
• Shipping sample approvals
• Chasing ex-factory dates
• Booking QC inspections
• Critical path maintenance
• Tracker updates
• Counter costings
• Co-ordinating TOP sample delivery

Design (creative):

• Product briefs
• Graphic design (prints, branding)
• Assisting applying colour palette to range
• Packaging copy creation
• Assisting Prototype reviewing

Development (technical/production):

• PP approvals
• Size set fitting
• Packaging
• Care Labels
• Issuing prototype comments
• In acting QA process
• Branding application/ consistency – (adherence)
• Trim sourcing & testing
• Lead time monitoring
• Following issues during production
• Continuous improvement from returns data
• Factory visits
• Investigating QC issues
• Safety/compliance issues

Why Alpkit?

At Alpkit, we believe in living life to the fullest, embracing the great outdoors, and creating products that make every adventure better. We're not just a company; we're a community of passionate individuals dedicated to sustainability, innovation, and fun. Join us, and help people go nice places and do good things. ?✨

Perks of the Job:

Ability to buy extra holiday, Alpkit discount for you, your family and friends, life insurance, critical illness cover, cycle to work scheme, enhanced pension contributions, paid volunteer days, green commuting scheme and much more. We're proud to be environmentally and sustainability conscious and we promote a learning culture.

We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, be yourself, join our community and help us "go nice places and do good things." If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please just get in touch.

Ready to Join?

If you're ready to take the next step in your design career with a company that values creativity, sustainability, and adventure, we'd love to hear from you! Apply today and become a part of the Alpkit family.

We can't wait to meet you! 

Closing Date: 29th August
Salary: £24,960