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Careers

Find out what it’s like to work with us, view our current vacancies and apply for a role at Angels Costumes.

Current Vacancies

ASSISTANT LADIES CUTTER AND MAKER REQUIRED TO JOIN OUR BUSY TEAM

We are seeking a skilled and versatile Assistant Ladies Cutter and Maker to join our dynamic team.   To cut and manufacture high-quality costumes for film TV and theatre productions, ensuring excellence in both construction and finish. This is a full time role based in our NW9 workroom.  

Key Responsibilities:

  • Costume cutting:   Manufacture high-quality costumes ensuring excellence in both construction and finishing.
  • Fittings:   Conduct fittings with actors both on-site and off-site, accurately marking alterations and translating them into precise patterns.
  • Collaboration:   Work closely in the Ladies Making workroom with the Head of Department (Head Cutter) to meet deadlines, assisting the team across various departments including alterations, tailoring, and ladies wear.
  • Pattern Making: Draft, drape, and grade accurate patterns as needed, demonstrating an extensive knowledge of historical and specialized garments.
  • Versatility:  Adapt to various tasks, including refurbishing costumes and working across multiple rooms to meet production needs.

 

Skills Required: 

Proven experience in costume construction with proficiency in industrial machinery and exceptional hand-sewing skills.

  • Extensive knowledge of historical period garments and specialized costumes, with advanced skills in making and cutting to the highest standards.
  • Experience in drafting, draping, and cutting fabrics from patterns.
  • Familiarity with workroom machinery maintenance, both domestic and industrial.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work well under pressure, adapting to last-minute changes.
  • Knowledge and experience in jacket cutting and making.
  • A keen interest in further developing pattern drafting and cutting skills.
  • Ability to work independently within small ancillary teams  

 

If you are interested and have the necessary skills and experience, please email your CV with covering letter to jobs@angels.co.uk

Please don’t apply unless you meet the criteria detailed above as we will be unable to consider your application. 

SENIOR ALTERATIONS ASSISTANT NEEDED TO JOIN OUR TEAM AT ANGELS HENDON

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Alterations Assistant to work in our Alterations Workroom.   Candidates must be proficient in all alteration techniques and be able to carry them out quickly and accurately.

Skills Required:

 At least two years of professional workroom experience to include:

  • Proficiency in complex tailored alterations and pattern cutting
  • Proficiency in use of industrial machines
  • Excellent hand sewing skills

Candidates must be:

  • Accurate with an enquiring mind and desire to learn
  • Able to independently undertake and run making projects
  • Able to support and guide junior team members
  • Able to allocate and/or reallocate work in the room when required
  • Be flexible and able to prioritise own workload and that of other team members

Skills required

  • Good keyboard & computer skills (word & excel essential)
  • Numerical and literary accuracy
  • Good communication & organisational skills
  • Ability to cope with pressure
  • Sense of urgency & ability to meet deadlines and be able to prioritise
  • Diplomatic and a Team player
  • An inquisitive mind
  • Good personality and sense of humour
  • Good telephone manner

 

If you are interested and have the necessary skills and experience, please email your CV with covering letter to jobs@angels.co.uk

Please don’t apply unless you meet the criteria detailed above as we will be unable to consider your application.

 

What can a job at Angels offer me?

Angels is the largest and most prestigious costume house in the world and is the gold standard of costuming in the entertainment industry.

If you join us, you will be working with some of the best in the industry. You will be working with people who continue to drive Angels forward, hugely successfully. They have a vast knowledge and experience of their craft and are a major resource.

If you succeed in getting a job at Angels you will be given a unique opportunity to learn every aspect of the costume business.

You will receive the best costume training available anywhere in the world working with the best costume professionals in the business. You will work on exciting projects from small independent features through to blockbuster movies; small theatre projects through to huge operas and commercials through to classic TV costume dramas.

If you succeed, doors can open for you within the industry worldwide. It is well proven that having Angels on your CV is a major advantage – not only does it demonstrate that you have had the best training but also that you work in a professional, efficient and reliable way – the Angels way!

You may also be interested to know something about the kind of job types that exist at Angels:

Posts as Junior or Trainee Costumiers – applicants have sometimes completed a costume or fashion course (which is not essential). What is more important is to be able to demonstrate a passion for costume and history and the desire to progress in the industry.

Posts in our Alterations Workroom require a minimum of 2 years formal training in the construction and interpretation of costumes. College leavers and graduates usually start in the Alterations Workroom.

Posts in Dressmaking require a minimum of 2 years formal training in the construction and interpretation of costumes plus at least 2 years relative experience.

Posts in Tailoring require a minimum of 2 years formal training in the construction and interpretation of costumes plus at least 2 years relative experience.

Lots of other posts are also available within the company, criteria of which will be published when vacancies arise.

Graduate Internships

Angels run a variety of Internship programmes which provide a perfect opportunity to gain invaluable work experience at the world’s largest costume house.