Quality Assurance Assistant

Who We Are:

Founded on love and respect for both piercing jewelry and our clients, Buddha Jewelry has deep and thriving roots in the professional piercing industry. Behind each design is our passion for jewelry, love for modern fashion, and personal experiences with jewelry. The love and respect we imbue our jewelry is also the foundation on which we build our company culture, customer service and operations. We value kindness and optimism, and balance our hustle with a lot of fun!

Must Haves:

• 2 years experience in inventory, production lifecycle, distribution, and operational procedures
• 1 years experience working hands-on with physical and systematic sample management (fine jewelry or body adornment experience is a big plus!)
• Meticulous self-starter with a high attention to detail
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Be proactive, adaptable, flexible, able to quickly pivot and prioritize
• 100% on-site in Seattle, WA

Job Summary:

Buddha Jewelry is seeking a motivated individual to join our Production and Inventory team. The ideal candidate will be dedicated to ensuring a consistent customer experience through the accuracy and timeliness of their work, have a high level of attention to detail, and the ability to stay organized. This position will provide a wide variety of support for the Production and Inventory Manager, but will largely be focused on ways to help build and maintain the bridge between the sample and production processes.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Cultural Values & Inclusion: Model company values in all actions and decisions, demonstrating a genuine commitment to equity, inclusion, and compassion in the workplace.
• Compliance & Process Improvement: Support compliance initiatives and identify opportunities for improving production and quality processes for jewelry batches, including cataloging and logging gold, product labeling, and ensuring proper storage according to company protocols
• Product Testing: Test product including gold testing and stone verification, working with testing equipment (gold testing, laser welder, etc.), liaising with third-party labs and vendors
• Deep Product Knowledge and Continued Jewelry Education: Develop a deep understanding of the products, including materials, functionality, and care, to assist in product management and quality control, demonstrating willingness and excitement to become a product and gold expert
• Sample Oversight and Management: Organize and maintain sample inventory, facilitating the transition from samples to bulk production or limited editions. Ensure jewelry samples are produced to precise design and quality specifications, while maintaining an organized sample library for internal and external use.
• Quality Control, Inspection and Testing: Perform quality checks on samples and products, ensuring they meet company standards and customer expectations, address any material or design inconsistencies, and identify potential issues.
• Production Liaison: Collaborate with the production team to ensure smooth communication and transition from sample to final product, including creating production documents.
• Sample Distribution & Tracking: Track the movement of samples across teams (design, marketing, production) and external stakeholders, ensuring timely availability for product launches, photoshoots, and presentations.
• Inventory Support & Sample Cataloging: Assist with regular inventory counts, audit product bag tags, and ensure accurate product cataloging in databases (NetSuite, Shopify).
• Database & Product Management: Manage and update product information in databases, ensuring accurate descriptions, naming conventions, and tags for both samples and production items.
• Vendor Communication: Liaise with the production team and suppliers abroad to uphold quality standards and facilitate process improvements.
• Cross-Department Collaboration: Work closely with Design, Inventory, Marketing, and Fulfillment teams to prepare products for launches and ensure all departments have the necessary information
• Administrative Duties: Assist the Production Manager with administrative tasks and special projects, ensuring efficient workflow across teams.

Experience And Qualifications

• 2 years experience in inventory, production lifecycle, distribution, and operational procedures
• 1 years experience working hands-on with physical and systematic sample management (fine jewelry or body adornment experience is a big plus!)
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Meticulous self-starter with a high attention to detail and accuracy
• Tech-savvy, proven competence with Inventory Management Systems a major plus! High level of proficiency with Excel and other information systems
• Curiosity and willingness to learn
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Be proactive, adaptable, flexible, able to quickly pivot and prioritize
• A genuine commitment to equity, inclusion, and compassion for those around you
• Ability to work well autonomously as well as within a team
• 100% on-site in Seattle, WA

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We encourage applications from people of color, women, those with disabilities, LGBTQIA individuals, immigrants, and anyone else who has faced discrimination or oppression as a result of their identities.

Studies have shown that folks of historically marginalized groups will often only apply to a job if they meet or exceed the listed qualifications. If you believe that you could be a good fit for our company, but don’t quite fulfill every requirement, please do still apply, we would love to hear from you!

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 100% on-site in Seattle, WA
• Able to remain in a stationary position about 50% of the time
• Constantly operate a computer and other office equipment, such as a scanner, copy machine, and printer.
• Constantly accesses, handle, and use non-electronic resources
• Occasionally move equipment and other office resources up to 50 pounds
• Occasionally move about the office to include occasional positioning of self to maintain equipment, office supplies, tasks, etc.
• Ability to inspect, recognize, observe, assess, compare, detect, discern, and distinguish office resources, necessary documents and reporting, physical product, and other organizational resources as needed

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Buddha Jewelry is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

TITLE: Quality Assurance Assistant

REPORTS TO: Production and Inventory Manager

FULL/PART TIME: Full Time

FLSA: Non-Exempt

LOCATION: HQ Office

SALARY RANGE: $26.50 - $31.00

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $26.50 - $31.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Experience:

• Inventory control: 2 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Seattle, WA 98102 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $27 - $31