Seasonal Employee Tailor

Seasonal Tailor

Seasonal Tailor Tailored Brands is a leading omnichannel specialty retailer of menswear, including suits, formal wear and a broad selection of business casual offerings. The company aims to help its customers love the way they look and feel for their most important moments by delivering personalized products and services through a convenient network of stores and e-commerce sites. The company's brands include Men's Wearhouse, Jos.

A. Bank, Moores and K&G Fashion. At Tailored Brands, we value differences and know they make us better. We are always working to make our Company a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place to work.

Seasonal Tailor/Alterations Staff are responsible for performing and completing tailor/alterations from made-to-measure and ready-to-wear garments. This includes organizing work load; carry out all tailoring/alterations according to the fitter's specifications.

Key accountabilities include:

• Following required tailoring/alteration processes and instructions based on picking ticket comments
• Measuring and marking tailoring/alteration lines
• Pinning altering folds or marks on cloth at seams, darts, or necklines to indicate tailoring/alterations to be made
• Shortening or lengthening garment parts, such as sleeves or legs as required
• Expanding or narrowing garment parts, such as waist or chest as needed
• Raising or lowering garment parts, such as collars or lapels as needed
• Relocating or replacing buttons on coats, vests and shirts
• Re-sewing garment, using needle and thread or sewing machine
• Trimming excess material, using scissors
• Removing stitches from garment, using ripper or razor blade
• Pressing garment, using hand iron or pressing machine as needed
• Maintaining a clean and safe work environment
• Maintaining sewing machines in good working order

Required skills and experience include:

• Previous experience in tailoring/alterations
• Good hand/eye coordination and manual dexterity
• Good physical and mental stamina to perform tasks for a long period of time
• Working knowledge of industrial Blind Stitch and Sleeve feller sewing machines. Ability to sew by hand as required
• Working knowledge of operating a utility press & spotting board table
• The ability to read and understand picking tickets
• Working knowledge of radio frequency (RF) scanner is a plus
• Basic math, counting, and problem solving skills
• Good communication skills and good command of the English language (speak, read, write, and understand English for purposes of performing necessary job duties)
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency to meet customer time commitments
• Ability to take initiative and work independently or with team members to accomplish defined goals in a fast-paced distribution warehouse environment
• Ability to learn new skills and take on additional job responsibilities as needed
• Flexibility to work in all areas of production and able to work any shift during peak season is required

Continuously standing, walking, sitting, reaching and working overhead, climbing, balancing, stooping, bending, kneeling, squatting, stretching, crouching, and crawling. Frequent use of hands and fingers for grasping, reaching, pulling, and pushing. Frequent use of ladders and/or lift equipment. Frequently lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds or more. This position is in a warehouse setting environment and physical requirements include but may not be limited to good hand/eye coordination, continuous walking, standing, stooping, bending, reaching overhead and repetitive lifting up to 50 lbs.

for long periods of time.