Aje Garment Technician

Over the last 14 years, Aje has carefully built a culture where our people are supported, inspired, and encouraged to be the best they can.

Along with our incredible team, our brand has an intrinsic sense of duality, balancing toughness with femininity, untamed volume with structure, and signature statement pieces alongside effortless essentials. These complementing differences are captured in Aje’s unique aesthetic and have contributed to the brand becoming one of Australia’s most influential fashion houses.

Aje Collective invites you to join this new era as we have an exciting opportunity for a Garment Technician to join our Head Office Team.

**As the **insert role here**, your tasks will include**:

- Maintain and agree on standard measurements, and record and measure against spec for all styles.
- Ensure measurements are consistent across the supplier base as it expands.
- Undertake regular competitor research to ensure fit and sizing is competitive.
- Define and maintain grading and sizing rules for each garment type.
- Work alongside Product Development to ensure all technical specs are clear and any measurement requests are consistent with the standard measurements.
- Measure all samples to ensure they conform to size specifications.
- Flag any size variance prior to fit meetings and ensure the factory is informed where appropriate.
- Plan and organise fit meetings, including booking models, sending diary invites, etc.
- Attend and run all collection sample and pre-production fittings to ensure samples conform to the Designer’s vision and are of the correct quality.
- Record all fit comments and relay to the factories, ensuring amendments are accurately reflected in future samples or production.
- Support the factories to solve specific make or construction queries.
- Maintain consistency in sewing rules and make standards, and ensure factories understand the standards required to produce for the brand.
- Request, monitor and chase all samples.
- Request, inspect and assess pre-production, top of production and shipment samples. Flag any issues that could impact delivery with the Production Manager.
- Alongside Production Manager, manage any quality issues and faulty garments to ensure delays are kept to a minimum.
- Report on quality, faults and production each season detailing each factory performance against target.
- Assess any consumer and wholesale returns and ensure any recurring issues are addressed.

**You will bring**:

- Contemporary or luxury fashion experience is essential.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience specialising in women’s tailoring, dresses and soft separates from day to evening.
- Ability to fit to Gold Seal standard.
- Good working knowledge of pattern cutting.
- Excellent fabric knowledge encompassing woven and jersey from delicate to structured fabric bases, technical components and sewing machines.
- Experienced in working in a fast paced environment.
- Experience working factories in China and India.
- Tenacious, assertive and determined attitude with excellent attention to detail.
- Highly organised and numerical with excellent problem solving skills.

**We recognise the impact our team has on our success. To show our appreciation we want you to enjoy..**
- Enticing salary packaging
- Your growth is our growth, training and development programs are recommended and encouraged
- Stepping away from the traditional, Aje Collective HQ is a sunlit space within Surry Hills that influences creative and collaborative thoughts. The awe will never diminish when looking at the curved arches, textured walls and open roof.
- Take advantage of the Sydney Sun with our Summer Friday Hours
- Celebrate milestones such as, Birthdays with Aje leave benefits
- Be a part of the change with increasing positive corporate responsibility, reflected through our Aje Aware Charter
- Be adored and recognised as no key achievement and success goes unnoticed
- We appreciate our hard working teams however, a healthy work life balance is one in which we actively promote
- Embrace the Aje style with our generous employee discounts, pre-order programs, clothing allowances and regular sample sales

Are you ready to join us on the Aje Journey?
- At Aje Collective, diversity is a founding principle of the brand, taking inspiration from multicultural Australia throughout all visual communications since inception. We are committed to developing a culture and environment that celebrates diversity, equality and inclusion by promoting diversity in all forms and creating a safe environment for all employees, applicants and customers_