JOB TITLE: FABRIC INSPECTOR
LOCATION: KEIGHLEY, West Yorkshire
JOB PURPOSE
Working as part of a dedicated team you will assist in the Inspection of the fabric for an iconic brand. You will work to the highest quality whilst achieving daily targets and ensure continuous production including leading a team of highly skilled inspectors inspecting both looms state and finished fabric.
RESPONSIBILITIES
To work in a safe manner, undertake courses on manual handling, safe systems at work and understand the risk assessments of working in a textile production environment.
- Responsibility for inspecting all off loom & finished fabric
- Mandatory Quality checks on all fabric through inspection.
- Mandatory shade check against fabric standard
- Patrolling and mending using the accumulator on loom inspection system in the weaving shed
- Accurate fault mapping using either QT terminals or Manual fault maps
- Allocate fabric to appropriate stillages
- Load ‘A’ frames on receipt of fabric form finisher
- Identify all faults using tailors chalk – with care following agreed standard specification
- Transfer pieces on the system to the relevant location adding the agreed strings and allowances
- Ensure fabric is well presented before delivery into vendor
- Housekeeping of all areas
- Ensure high standards of excellence
- Excellent Communication between all Managers and Peers
PERSONAL PROFILE
- Textile background
- Previous manufacturing environment with high quality standards
- Ability to follow instructions
- Precision and accuracy
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving using Lean tools and techniques
- GSCE Grade C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent)
- Excel and Microsoft word skills an advantage
HOURS & USEFUL INFO
The shift will be a rotational shift throughout the day, one week 6am – 2pm and following week 2pm – 10pm. This is an initial temporary agency assignment through to July 2027.
The site is closed for holidays at certain points in the year, which means some of your annual leave entitlement will be allocated during the designated shutdown periods during the summer and festive periods. Complementary tea, coffee and fruit is available to all team members on a daily basis.
To find out more and to apply, please email your CV to Justine.Sudra@guidant.com
