Role Title: Apparel Engineer

Salary:  £47,000 to £52,500 (dependant on experience)

About British Cycling

The Great Britain Cycling Team (GBCT) is the country’s most successful Olympic and Paralympic team in history, with high ambitions to continue this legacy at Paris 2024 and beyond.

We are a highly driven and motivated team of skilled and passionate individuals working together to support British Cycling’s vision which includes striving to inspire Britain to be a great cycling nation and sharing the joy of cycling with everyone.

Now is an incredibly exciting year to join the Great Britain Cycling Team, fresh off the back of winning 11 Olympic and 22 Paralympic Games, as well as celebrating 20 years of the GBCT pathway.

This is an exciting, new and unique role with the Great Britain Cycling Team (GBCT). A recently furnished Apparel Sampling Studio based on the site of a the new state-of-the-art cycling wind tunnel gives a cutting edge set up fir this role to operate in and provides the platform for GBCT to continue it’s world leading ambitions for rapid prototyping and testing as well as long-term investigative work. The sport is looking for an Apparel Engineer who has both the expertise and motivation to create and lead a program of cycling apparel excellence.

As Apparel Engineer, you will work collaboratively with the Equipment & Apparel Development Team to drive informed innovation within apparel each season across all cycling disciplines. The role will require you to work across GBCT, interacting with coaches, support staff & riders to identify performance opportunities or challenges, looking to initiate product solutions to achieve measurable improvements. The role requires the creativity & technical capability for sampling and the ability to strategically prioritise defined projects. You will be the direct link with clothing commercial partners, supporting them to deliver outstanding apparel for the GBCT.

About you

• Curious – You have a constant curiosity about how the rest of the world are developing their on and off bike apparel collections and how to keep ahead of them. You have an appetite to learn from other sports, coaches and environments. You have a desire to invite new perspectives and you welcome challenge and debate.
• Passionate – Apparel is your passion, it’s what you think about every day. You will be ‘well-read’ in key literature and research and will be at the forefront of understanding in materials and garment engineering.
• Rapport builder - A proven ability to foster positive engagement and strong, trusting relationships with experienced athletes and coaches. You will be proactive and optimistically persistent in developing the strength of these relationships even with the most challenging of personalities. You don’t give up.
• Credible – You will be a credible expert in the field of performance apparel. You will have the courage and conviction to challenge the status quo in context of kit. Owing to your credibility, people will listen.
• Analytical – You possess a highly analytical perspective. You will seek to find evidence to establish robust understanding in the field of performance apparel to ensure no assumption goes unchallenged. You will have the ability to identify gaps in historical collections and to build proposals to meet demands.

Please see detailed role profile attached for further details

What are the perks?

• Competitive Salary
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Generous Holidays (25 days + bank holidays)
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Life Assurance
• Pension

To apply please send a copy of your CV and a short cover letter by using the apply button provided on the page.

 Closing date 10th November 2024

Interview date: 15th November 2024 in the National Cycling Centre, Manchester