Assistant Fabric Technologist

What you'll be doing...

Work alongside the Established Fabric Technologist to support:

• Development and implementation of a Right First-Time mind-set throughout the product development and manufacturing cycle to support speed to market
• Building the capabilities within the supplier base to support step change from Quality Control to Quality Assurance.
• Renewals and updates to the ASOS technical fabric manuals to deliver market leading standards and easy to follow guidelines
• Work with Garment Tech, Buying and Fabric Team and ASOS approved labs to ensure suppliers, products and materials are monitored appropriately by risk.
• Risk assessments of challenging key fashion fabric trends such as neon, metallics. PU’s etc, highlighting and supporting teams from the beginning of the development process to ensure 1st time right fabrics that are globally compliant
• Flagging up areas of failed fabric test reports to the Senior Fabric Technologist and assisting with suggested solutions.
• Support the in-house & suppliers training on Fabric Performance and how to avoid failures to reduce the need for mandatory testing
• Work with the Established Technologist to introduce self-approval fabric testing processes within the supply chain
• Produce bi-monthly Fabric Performance updates for the business, demonstrating cost and impact of non-compliance to the business.
• Work with Laboratory partners to suggest and implement areas of improvement to the fabric testing system to support business needs and strategies with cost savings.
• Work with the Laboratory partners to analysis patterns in failed compliance and work with the suppliers to resolve these problems.
• Liaise with Fabric Sourcing day to day, to ensure technical queries are addressed promptly & escalated if necessary.
• Maintain and build relationships with suppliers, attending supplier meetings to support technically
• Maintain live Loop modules as policies standards are updated and create new modules when needed, sharing modules in monthly sourcing newsletter.
• Overseeing the In-house lab accreditation process with ASOS certified Fabric Technologists supporting visits, training and necessary audits.

Other

• Support Suppliers Seminars, Conferences and Training as necessary
• Update supplier summaries