What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sewing Specialist (Full Time) position at TentCraft?
Who are we?
Rooted in humility, hard work, and some fun and a little weirdness (one of our six ‘Guiding Principles’), TentCraft is a capabilities rich manufacturer with a no-shame obsession with the world of experiential and outdoor marketing. We live, work and play in Traverse City, Michigan, and while you’ll find our work nationwide, we operate together from a single facility. Everything we design, engineer, build, print and sew happens under one roof and is proudly American made and veteran owned. Long story short, we’re one big talented team of LEAN thinkers dedicated to Make it Better from sea to shining sea for our clients and our TentCraft family. We’ve always got continuous improvement on our minds and creative solutions are our jam, so if we need to get a little scrappy to make magic actually happen, we’re down for that.
What are we looking for:
TentCraft is an amazing place to dive into manufacturing for the first time in that we provide a culture of personal and professional growth while keeping work fun and a little weird or, if you are well experienced in the manufacturing world, come bring your wealth of knowledge and help us make it better!
We are looking for talented, creative, enthusiastic and motivated people who genuinely care about what they do. Our Sewing Specialist position is full time 5 days a week, 8 hour schedule starting at 6:30 am, Monday – Friday and should have a flexible schedule to be able to work overtime and weekends as needed. Starting hourly rate is $18 an hour. We are looking for another team member with a good sense of humor, incredible work ethic and motivation to go above and beyond to join our family of sewers. If you have any other skills, passions or abilities they will absolutely be utilized and we encourage you to share them with us.
What you will be responsible for:
- This person will be responsible for assisting in the efficient sewing and finishing a of variety of products.
- Safely operate an industrial Juki sewing machine.
- Always paying attention to detail and checking work before handing it off to next operation.
- Ability to keep on-pace with other team members.
- Accurately measure and sew products of varying sizes to customer specifications.
- Troubleshoot product issues with other members in the department.
- Follow standard work.
- Flexibility when it comes to cross training for other job functions.
- Working with and in other departments when necessary.
- Speaking up and engaging in continuous improvement.
What you need:
- Pull, push, or lift 30 pounds consistently.
- Constantly moving around the production floor up to 10 hours a day.
- Twisting and bending to assemble products.
- Commitment to excellence when it comes to quality and detailed job specifications.
- Have a mindset to continuously improve processes as well as themselves.
- Willingness to learn, take direction and respect others.
- Ability to keep up in a fast-paced team environment, have the ability to multi-task and reflect a positive attitude towards challenging job requirements.
- Possess strong communications skills (Don’t take this as fluff…we are serious. Communication is a big deal here).
- Enthusiasm and ideas are a must!
- Punctual, dependable and trustworthy.
- Flexibility when it comes to cross training for other job functions, we rely heavily on TEAMWORK.
- Speaking up and engaging in continuous improvement.
What we’ll give you:
- A work environment that will make your family proud and your friends jealous!
- A fun group of coworkers who want nothing more than to see you succeed and will stop at nothing to ensure you do.
- Work/life balance is important to us, and we encourage you to be active outside the production floor! Though, flexibility also means being available for extended hours when needed
- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, 21 paid days off per year, paid holidays, Stand-up paddle boards and Kayaks to use, health and wellness reimbursement, and more!
Bottom line:
We began as a start-up company within a large organization and have experienced rapid and sustainable growth by hiring A people who are committed to the continued growth and success of this company. We offer a tremendous work environment, great leadership and all the help you could ever ask for. We aren’t interested in job-hoppers or anybody looking to dip their toes in the water. We want people ready to jump in the deep end and help us continue to gain market share from our competitors, introduce new products and become an even better turn-key vendor for our clients than we currently are. Our goal is for this to be the best job you’ve ever had.
To Apply:
Think you are ready to toe the line with us? Visit https://www.tentcraft.com/careers/ and apply online! Submit your resume with a well crafted cover letter expressing why you want to intern at TentCraft. That simple!
TentCraft, LLC. and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, genetic information, disability, or any other characteristics as protected by federal, state or local law.
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