Print Operator (Athlete) Fixed Term

Are you passionate about team sports? Obsessed with sports and sports brands? Have you played team sports at any level? Do you love working in or leading a team?

If the answer is YES then working for KitKing.co.uk might be for you. We are a Teamwear business established in 1992. We partner with the best global sports brands e.g. Nike, adidas and Puma. We work with grassroots sports clubs, professional sports clubs, schools, universities and National Governing Bodies. No sports organisation is too small or large for us. We aren’t a normal business. Our culture is quite unique. We are ambitious, inclusive, purpose driven with a winning mentality. As a family run business, we have always embraced diversity and culture within our company, others have just started to wake up to how important this is!

We strive to always learn, and compete against ourselves to be better every day. Within our building based near the world renowned sports university town of Loughborough, we often have volunteers at grassroots sports clubs through to premier league footballers visit us for their kit needs.

If a fast paced, fun and team driven environment is for you, KitKing might be the right company for you.

We are looking for a candidate to join our embellishment team to work to KitKings high standards and set lead times. You will be working Monday to Friday within a flexible hour structure typically settling into 08:30 – 17:00 during off peak periods but flexing out to either earlier starts or later finishes during peak periods.

Experience in plotting, cutting and pressing of garments would be ideal.

What we’re looking for:

· Someone with an eye for detail.

· Good manual dexterity.

· Good numeracy and literacy.

· Good communicator to internal staff.

· Able to work well with an established team and happy to work alone once fully trained.

· Experience in the garment printing industry would be advantageous but full training will be provided on site.

Day to day responsibilities:

· Prepare and embellish garments.

· Contributing to improving the production processes

· Meeting production quality standards and tight deadlines at all times.

· Using the software, plotter and heat press to produce customer garment artwork and orders

· Able to maintain consistency on location and quality of embellishments

· Able to achieve target output per day.

· Apply various embellishments to garments using a heat press.

· Maintaining tidiness of your workspace and the department (daily and weekly).

· Troubleshoot any irregularities that may occur when handling customer’s orders.

· Candidates who show aptitude will be trained on further areas in the department.

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 4-5 months

Pay: £10.00-£11.44 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 01/03/2024
Expected start date: 15/04/2024