What are the responsibilities and job description for the Weekend Positions position at Vidalia Mills?
Weekday positions start at $27/hr health benefits and include opportunities for promotion!
We have openings across all departments and will train you if you don't have textile experience.
Interested in a mix of weekday and weekend work? Simply apply and we'll figure it out during your interview.
What we do
Yarn Manufacturing involves transforming raw cotton into both ring spun and vintage rotor yarns.
This isn’t the type of yarn that home crafters use to make sweaters... Yarn is the key building block for all apparel and home furnishings. It's the key to what you wear, what you sleep in and what you dry off with.
Operating Positions in the Spinning Department
Carding & Opening - Operators run machinery that opens, blends, cleans and prepares the cotton for spinning. Cotton is preselected and precisely scheduled so that the “blend” has uniformity and makes strong durable yarn that can be dyed and woven into denim and other fabrics.
Spinners - Spinners takes the prepared cotton and form it into either "ring soup" or vintage rotor yarn. When the cotton leaves Carding and Opening it looks like a very fluffy cotton rope that is then spun and given a twist for strength forming yarn that goes into Vidalia’s denim as well as other technically demanding applications.
Operating Positions in the Weaving Department
Shuttle Weaver - Weaving is where yarn is transformed into denim by a loom which feeds thousands of vertically aligned strands of yarn and laterally inserts a filing yarn locking the yarns into place forming denim. Vidalia is the proud home of the last 45 Draper Shuttle Looms. The denim from these looms has unique characteristics in terms of look and feel and is highly sought after by denim aficionados around the word. Draper denim (a.k.a. selvedge denim) goes into jeans that can retail anywhere from $200-$400 per pair.
Picanol Weaver - Vidalia also has some of the newest and most technically precise weaving equipment in North America, which is used to make performance denim with special stretch and other characteristics. This denim is used by premium brands in jeans which retail for $100 and up,
Finishing Department
After weaving, denim is ‘finished” which means that it's brushed, singed, given a wet bath, torque adjusted, and dried and shrinkage of cotton is controlled to meet or exceed industry standards.
Dyesmith - Work on a unique continuous range of equipment where Denim is taken from raw to finished form.
General Positions across all departments
Technicians - All areas require technicians for all shifts to maintain efficient operation of the equipment to craft our unique denim and yarn products.
Because all of equipment is specialized and most likely unfamiliar to most applicants, Vidalia Mills will determine through the application process whether a candidate is suited to starting as a technician. Technicians initially will be trained so that they understand how the production works and then will be further trained on maintenance and machine problem solving. Mechanical problem solving skills along with strong technical appitutude are key elements that Vidalia is looking for in its the technicians.
Salary : $27