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Factory Assistant - Celtic & Co.

Factory Assistant - Monday to Friday

Reporting to the Factory Manager, this is a general factory role to assist in the cutting, gluing and checking teams to safe guard a high standard of customer experience through the timely and accurate processing of work through the factory and the efficient and accurate dispatch of goods to the warehouse.

About the Company:

Celtic & Co. has been creating timeless, sustainable clothing and footwear for over 30 years. We care greatly about our environment and community and this ethos flows through everything we do. We only ever use natural, sustainable materials, and keep our production miles to a minimum, sourcing mainly from Great Britain and manufacturing our sheepskin footwear and accessories by hand in our Cornish factory. All this contributes towards a better fashion future - we strive to do better every day and take industry standards as a threshold to go beyond.
Our style takes great inspiration from our beautiful Cornish location; its colours, patterns and textures. We are extremely dedicated to quality, circular fashion principles and attention to detail. We are passionate about providing the best products and service to our customers and our efforts have been recognised with two Queens Awards and one Kings Award to date.
We are a proud, British manufacturer with two sites located close together in Cornwall. Our factory is based in Newquay and our head office and warehouse are located in Indian Queens.
All applications must include a covering letter and details of your current notice period.

What we can offer:

• Great work life balance
• Working in a beautiful part of the UK
• A supportive open-minded team environment
• Exclusive 50% discount
• Family feel business
• Free parking
• Cycle to work
• Employee Assistance Programs

Key Elements of Role:

• On a weekly basis, the Factory Manager will direct you to your area within the factory to ensure that the work in progress through the factory is kept at a constant level. On occasions, you may be required to change roles part way through the week to cover absence or spike in orders.
• Once assigned to your area, you should ensure that you are in regular contact with the appropriate team leader for daily work load targets, and to keep up-to-date with any new work-methods and systems.
• You should record all work achieved on daily work sheets provided, at all times ensuring urgent orders are prioritised and handled without any unnecessary delay, and any non-barcode work is accurately annotated on your work sheet. You should scan all your barcodes onto the factory IT system at the end of each working day.

Within each team you are responsible for:

Glue Room

• Prep soles and glue and finish footwear to company standards to ensure products are safely processed to agreed targets and within the agreed quality standards in accordance with departmental policy; Assist with any deliveries, checking for quality & counting in against all delivery notes, highlighting inconsistencies to the Factory Manager.

Checking Team

• Accurately check the quality of goods produced by the factory or goods imported from outside, processing all work within agreed targets and to the quality standards in accordance with departmental policy; Apply metal work to products as required; Maintain accurate records of all items checked and delivered to the warehouse.

Glue Room

• Prep soles and glue and finish footwear to company standards to ensure products are safely processed to agreed targets and within the agreed quality standards in accordance with departmental policy; Assist with any deliveries, checking for quality & counting in against all delivery notes, highlighting inconsistencies to the Factory Manager.

Cutting Team

• Accurately cut out sheepskin products as agreed with the Factory Manager, including (but not limited to) slippers, mules and fluffies, ensuring at all times that sheepskin usage is maximised to its full, waste is kept to a minimum and quality standards are maintained at all times; Glue insoles as required; Assist with deliveries, checking for quality & suitability, counting in against all delivery notes, highlighting inconsistencies to the Factory Manager.
• Work with the Factory Management Team on your personal training & development needs in order to effectively carry out roles as described above. This may include, but not be limited to, learning to work with the Eastman Cutting Knife and Hot Notcher.
• Provide assistance in the warehouse during quiet factory periods and where necessary assist with any warehouse relief to help ensure smooth dispatch levels are maintained.
• Maintain regular, consistent and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance, and adherence to relevant health & safety procedures.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, supervisors and the general public.
• Ensure all waste is kept to a minimum and where possible rubbish is recycled using all the appropriate bins.

The Candidate

• Use initiative, be enthusiasm, and have the ability to multi task
• Great attention to detail & time management skills
• Customer service & team-working focused
• Be able to work accurately under pressure

The more diversity we have in our team, the more unique perspectives and bright ideas we share. At Celtic & Co we are driven by alternative thinking, which to us means all ideas, personal beliefs, points of view, empower us to be a better more inclusive place to work

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, On Site

Pay: £12 per hour

Benefits:

• Canteen
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Store discount

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