Factory Assistant, Fixed Term Contract 6 Months

**Factory Assistant, Fixed Term Contract 6 Months - Monday to Friday (No Weekends)**

**About the Role**:
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.

**In return we can offer you**:

- Fixed Term Contract 6 Months
- Exclusive 50% discount off all Refined Brands companies after 1 months
- 30 days paid (Inclusive of bank holidays), Increasing with length of service
- Free 24/7 access to our Employment Assistance Program, Health Assured
- Free onsite parking
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Free fruit twice a week
- Recommend a friend, where you can gain £100 worth of vouchers for any brand
- Paid volunteering opportunities
- Ethical, sustainable brand
- Great work life balance
- Working in beautiful Cornwall with its world-renowned beaches close by
- A supportive open minded team environment
- Family feel business

**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:
**When assigned to the 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.

**When assigned to the checking team**:
**When assigned to the 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
- 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