Oner Active Garment Technologist (Seamless)

Role: Garment Technologist

Reports to: Senior Garment Technologist

Contract type: Full Time, working 7.5 hours per day, 5 days per week

Location: Hybrid, working 3 days a week in our offices based in Old Street, London

About Us: Nothing is clearer to us than the belief that every woman should include strength training in her life to enhance both physical and mental well-being. It’s about building strong bodies and even stronger minds, asserting their right to take up space in the gym, and allowing the spotlight to shine bright on their progress. To us, strength training represents a determined, goal-oriented mindset and an unwavering work ethic. We don’t wait for success; we create it through hard work and determination. When faced with challenges, we don’t back down; instead, we break through barriers, recognising that true progress lies on the other side. These are the pillars that form the foundation of Oner Active. We consistently challenge ourselves to create innovative and impactful products, so that you can perform better. With our range of products and innovative approach, we provide a wide variety of colours to ensure that all skin tones genuinely radiate in Oner.

Our purpose and mission: We are on a mission to unite and empower women to be the strongest version of themselves through strength training. We want to inspire women to take centre stage in the gym by promoting strength training, which underpins all movement and sport, as a healthy foundation in life.

Our benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays and work from anywhere up to 4 weeks a year
• 5% employer match salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Generous Oner Active discount plus regular office sample sales
• Free Evolve You subscription
• Private Healthcare with Vitality including optical and dental
• Monthly wellness allowance and team workout classes
• Start-up culture – the chance to learn and make a real impact
• Great employee events like our Summer party, Christmas party and team away days
• Healthy office snacks and fruit (plus a chocolate cupboard for a sweet treat for the balance)
• Dog friendly office

Our technical team: The Technical Team at Oner plays a pivotal role in the end-to-end development of garments, ensuring each product meets the highest standards of quality, fit, functionality, and brand alignment for our target customer. We collaborate closely with Design, Buying, and Supplier teams from initial concept through to final production, guaranteeing that all garments adhere to precise technical specifications and reflect the brand's creative vision. Our expertise spans a wide range of critical areas, including fabric performance, garment construction, sizing, and quality assurance. As the vital link between creative vision and commercial execution, the Technical Team oversees all aspects of product development from fit approvals and wear testing to production handovers and final inspections.

About you: You’ll be responsible for managing the product life cycle from initial specification to shipment. We’re looking for someone to take ownership of their dedicated product area, ensuring you meet critical path deadlines and quality standards. This is a highly collaborative role, where you’ll work closely with the Buying, Merchandising, and the Design team. You’ll have the opportunity to get involved in a number of cross-departmental projects. It’s important that you are self-motivated and can take ownership of the responsibilities of your department. Aside from technical experience, organisational and analytical skills are essential. Other really important skills are good time management and the ability to prioritise a busy workload. Occasional factory visits and business travel for press or community events may also be required.

Responsibilities:

• Product development: Managing the product life cycle from initial specification through to shipment, for your dedicated product areas. Managing your workload successfully to the company’s critical path. Running weekly fit sessions for your allocated products. Providing suppliers with detailed technical fit and construction comments. Leading seamless proto fittings and driving fit development in collaboration with the Technical team. Supporting the creation and refinement of new blocks for the seamless category, ensuring consistently high standards of construction, performance, and fit. Attending critical path meetings with suppliers, taking an active part in meetings querying any issues that could cause shipment delays. Supporting the buying team to achieve target cost. Advising the team of cost implications that fit and construction amendments may have. Signing off graded specs, checking grading prior to production starting. Owning the care label process for your dedicated product areas.
• Quality assurance: Working alongside the Fabric Technician to ensure fabrics are suitable for their end use. Assessing fabric and garment test reports. Managing wearer trials for new styles to ensure garments are fit for purpose. Collate feedback for the team to review. Reviewing AQL inspections, working with the merchandising teams to ensure shipments are approved on time. Reporting failed AQL inspections to the Senior Garment Technologist and Head of Technical. Logging AQL inspection costs on tracker. Working alongside the buying team to ensure correct trims such as elastic and zippers are ordered, which are functional for the end use.
• Other & ad hoc: Model management. Booking fit models and diarising fit time. Updating all relevant business trackers on Excel, Google Drive & Monday.com. Supporting other members of the technical team in their workload when requested. Working on special projects to improve fit and quality of product. Creating block libraries and run fit reviews when required.

Qualifications: Proven experience in seamless activewear, with strong knowledge of seamless construction techniques. Solid technical garment construction knowledge. Commercial awareness, with the ability to understand cost implications of technical decisions and support margin targets. Experience managing products through the full critical path. Highly organised with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously. Confident communicator and collaborator, able to build strong working relationships cross-functionally and with international suppliers. Proactive problem-solver with a solutions-focused mindset. Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and able to prioritise effectively to meet deadlines. A genuine passion for fit, performance, and delivering consistently high product standards.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion: At Oner Active it’s about embracing diversity and empowering every individual to reach their full potential. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are dedicated to ensuring that everyone has equal access to opportunities during the recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support, we encourage you to reach out to our Recruitment team - we’re here to support you every step of the way.