Master Tailor/Workshop Leader
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About the Role
Miral Experiences is looking for a Master Tailor/Workshop Leader to oversee tailoring departments across costuming operations in Abu Dhabi. The role involves managing senior tailors, planning workload, ensuring quality control, and leading creative costume builds.
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Responsibilities
- Oversee and lead all Tailoring Departments across Miral Experiences Costuming Departments
- Act as single point of contact for senior management regarding tailoring operations
- Manage, mentor, and support Senior Tailors and seamstresses
- Plan, prioritize, and balance departmental workload
- Lead and supervise master level pattern making, draping, fittings, and construction for complex costumes
- Oversee quality control across all tailoring outputs
Requirements
- Higher secondary or equivalent education
- Minimum 5 years of master level tailoring experience with costumes and managing a team of tailors
- 12+ years of professional sewing and tailoring experience
- Master level costume tailoring skills for both female and male costumes
- Proficient in operating industrial and domestic sewing machines and industrial serger machines
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management skills
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ROLE SCOPE
- Oversee and lead all Tailoring Departments across Miral Experiences Costuming Departments, ensuring consistent standards of craftsmanship, efficiency, and artistic quality.
- Act as the single point of contact for senior management regarding tailoring operations, workload planning, quality assurance, and production readiness.
- Manage, mentor, and support Senior Tailors and seamstresses, providing technical leadership, performance guidance, and professional development.
- Oversee both operational tailoring workflows (daily alterations, repairs, maintenance) and creative costume build ups, ensuring operational needs are met without disruption during peak creative periods.
- Plan, prioritize, and balance departmental workload to maintain continuity of operational costume support while delivering creative projects on schedule.
- Lead and supervise master level pattern making, draping, fittings, and construction for complex male and female costumes across productions and special events.
- Ensure creative build ups are aligned with the Costume Technology department and other Creative Costuming sub departments, coordinating fittings, timelines, and technical requirements.
- Oversee quality control across all tailoring outputs, actively safeguarding production, brand, and artistic values across all properties.
- Manage tailoring team scheduling, including days off, annual leave planning, and resource allocation to maintain adequate coverage at all times.
- Support and guide Senior Tailors in the execution of challenging costume developments, offering solutions to technical and construction challenges.
- Ensure costumes are completed and maintained in time for season openings, rehearsals, fittings, and live operations.
- Oversee fabric, trims, and materials usage across workshops, supporting inventory planning and timely ordering in collaboration with management.
Qualifications
- Higher secondary or equivalent education
- Formal or extensive professional experience in costume tailoring for both male and female garments
- Minimum of 5 years of master level tailoring experience with costumes and managing a team of tailors
- 12+ years of professional sewing and tailoring experience
- Master level costume tailoring skills for both female and male costumes, including advanced hand and machine sewing
- Expert fabric draping, cutting, fitting, and pattern making skills
- Ability to lead and review complex costume builds from concept through execution
- Proficient in operating industrial and domestic sewing machines and industrial serger machines
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and team management skills
- Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and quality control
- Exceptional time management skills
- Ability to balance operational and creative priorities in a fast paced environment
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