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Join our award-winning, ambitious & hard-working team in one of our exciting roles and help us drive our success to the next level. We are a rapidly growing business but still small enough that you feel like a member of the Celtic & Co. family – we’d like you to become our newest member! 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.
We support our employees by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will help you to thrive and succeed. At Celtic & Co. you’ll have a healthy work-life balance, a supportive and open-minded team environment and the opportunity to enter a cycle-to-work-scheme. We also offer an exclusive employee discount. All applications must include a covering letter and details of your current notice period.
All roles are based in Cornwall.
Garment Technician (Maternity Leave Cover - 12 Months)
About the Role:
- Manage all aspects of the fitting process across all product areas; from proto sample stage through to shipment sample.
- Assist Head of product to ensure the supply chain is monitored and kept up to date.
- A role for a motivated, pro-active individual, with a methodical way of working & an eye for detail as well as a keen interest in Sustainable Fashion and garment construction.
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.
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 Accountabilities & Responsibilities Include:
Managing the progress of the fitting & sealing across all product areas. This will include:
- Measuring garments
- Managing fit comments & garment details
- Managing grading rules.
- Requesting, approving and filing relevant testing
- Communication relevant information with suppliers
Book & manage fit sessions. This will include:
- Organizing a weekly fit session when the product team are free to attend.
- Booking fit model accordingly and approving subsequent invoices
- Tracking fit model measurements
- This may include assisting with sourcing fit models when required.
- Assist with the monitoring and management of the critical path, ensuring critical path is kept updated and that any sample approvals/ rejections are communicated to the Merchandising department.
- Manage the handover of Shipment samples to the Warehouse Team
- Liaise with the Warehouse, Merchandising and Customer Services teams to resolve any QC issues arising in bulk deliveries, either from 10% QC checks or faulty items reaching the customer; agreeing an action plan of how to proceed and ensuring suppliers are informed of any issues and we have written agreement to cover any associated costs prior to any action being taken.
- Contribute to initiatives to reduce customer returns; monitoring return rate and online and CS team customer feedback
- Supporting the Head of product with the management of the Supplier Manual; preparing new updated versions, distributing them to existing & new suppliers as required and ensuring confirmation of receipt.
- Tracking recognized social audits for tier 1 suppliers and ensuring these are valid with no advisories.
- Supporting the Senior Product Developer in updating & recording Sustainability information and Supply Chain Breakdown for existing & new suppliers & addressing any potential issues or Red Flags. Potential for travel and visiting suppliers because of this.
- Main point of contact with our nominated label suppliers; highlighting any changes/ additions which need to be made to any aspect of labelling to fulfil EPR/ new product requirements.
- Responsible for fit and shipment sample invoices; checking & approving with finance
- Supporting the Product Development team as needed for such things as, cleaning & Tidying up samples and Range room, post shoot sample tidy up & general housekeeping.
- Assist the product team with technical drawings, with a focus on measurements and construction if requested
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 Type: Full-time
Salary: £28,000.00-£32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Applications via Indeed: Garment Tech (Mat Leave Cover - 12 months)