Senior Garment Technician (Freelance)

Provide expert guidance on the technical aspects of product quality, fit and compliance. Work closely with both the permanent technical team and wider buying/design teams to ensure that the customer is at the forefront of all decision-making. Maintain a clear awareness and understanding of the customers' needs and broader business requirements.

Your Tasks

Key Accountabilities

• Work in collaboration with buying, design and merchandising to deliver market leading product.
• Maintain technical standards across product area, putting customer requirements at the centre of policy.
• Ensure all technical standards are frequently communicated to all stakeholders involved in the design, development and production processes (internal and external).
• Deliver clear specifications on design tech packs to include fit, fabric quality, construction standards and components.
• Approve fit and construction standards.
• Work with pattern development team to ensure that all relevant blocks and patterns are in place.
• Benchmark Hunkemoller product against commercial and technical competitors, ensuring a market leading position and feeding into the product development strategy.
• Manage fabric and trim (raw material) performance requirements and ensure quality, comfort and innovation are embedded into the raw material strategy.
• Ensure the integrity of product data on the Hunkemoller systems, both internal and customer/supplier facing.
• Monitor product performance through sales, perfect returns and product failure.

Skills & Competencies

• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Strong understanding of lingerie-specific garment construction and pattern cutting.
• Knowledge of lingerie-specific fabric performance, testing standards, and manufacturing processes.
• Strong understanding of lingerie-specific component and trim performance, testing and manufacturing.
• Excellent fitting and measurement skills.
• Ability to produce clear and detailed technical documents.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Strong communication and supplier-management skills.
• Attention to detail and quality assurance mindset.
• Proficiency in CAD, PLM systems, or garment-specific software (e.g., Gerber, Lectra, CLO3D).

We Offer You

Hybrid Work

Benefit from the flexibility of working from home, ensuring you can maintain productivity from anywhere. We have a 60:40 policy based on your working hours.

Buy & Sell Days

Every year in April, you will be eligible to buy or sell additional vacation days.

Hunkemoller Academy

Continuous learning opportunities and professional growth are supported through various training programs and workshops.

25 Holidays

You will get 25 holidays per annum, based on a fulltime role.

25-55% Staff Discount

Our products are much loved with our employees. As part of the brand, you will receive a discount of 25% on all Hunkemoller products. On some Mondays we have an additional sale on our newest collections. On top of the 25% discount, you will receive an additional 25 - 35% discount.

Work From Abroad

Get the opportunity to work from abroad for up to 2 weeks!

The buying team drives success working closely with our supplier partners, with a mission of strategic sourcing, negotiation and managing product development from sketch to customer. Our technical team ensures every piece fits flawlessly, feels exceptional, and meets the highest quality standards.