Factory Assistant

September 5, 2024

Barbour

South Shields

FULL TIME

Company Description:
The Barbour story began in 1894 in South Shields in the North East of England. Founder John Barbour began supplying oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen and dockers. Still family owned and now fifth generation, Barbour HQ remains in South Shields. Under the leadership of Chairman Dame Margaret Barbour, Barbour has grown into a lifestyle brand sold in over 55 countries worldwide including Europe, the US and Asia offering a wardrobe of stylish functional clothing, footwear and accessories inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. The iconic Barbour Bedale and Barbour Beaufort wax jackets continue to be made by hand in the factory in South Shields. In 2020, Barbour launched Wax for Life, an overarching name for all of Barbour’s wax services designed to encourage customers to extend the life of their wax garments. Wax for Life includes re-waxing and repairs (first introduced in 1921) and Barbour Re-Loved an upcycling circularity initiative. Each year over 70,000 wax garments are sent back to Barbour globally to be repaired, rewaxed or altered.
Position Overview:
We have an exciting opportunity for Factory Assistants to join the Barbour Factory team on a temporary basis to assist through our busy Christmas period. The main focus of the role is to process customer’s jackets in line with Service Level Agreement.
Duties & Responsibilities:

Maintain excellent housekeeping standards at all times.
Ensure Safe Working Procedures are followed at all times.
Ensure repairs and reproofs are carried out to satisfy customer expectations.
Maintain a level of accuracy of data processing that ensures customer expectations are met.
To meet individual efficiency targets.
Liaise with other Team Leaders to control and plan resource effectively to ensure that Customer Promised and SLA dates are met.
Receive customer jackets and perform ‘triaged’ receipt process logging customer jackets on the Repairs and Reproofs App.
Ensure that customer jackets are packaged and shipped back to the customer accurately.
Contribute to the CS team in a positive and professional manner.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

Attention to detail
Basic PC skills – (Excel, Outlook)
Positive ‘can do’ attitude

Benefits:

Staff Discount
Staff Shop
Healthcare Cash Plan
Free onsite parking
Wellbeing support
Subsidised canteen
20 days holiday as standard increasing with length of service plus bank holidays (prorata’d to contract length)
Condensed working week 36 hours Mon-Thurs
Access to training and development activities to support your career development

Additional Information:

Must be able to work 4 days Monday-Thursday 36 hours – 07:45am-5:15pm.
Temporary position.
This role will be temporary until end of December 2024.

Note: In the event that a sufficient volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.

We regret to inform you that this job opportunity is no longer available